Classic Books for Moms

I agree with Jen. I’m at a place right now in David Copperfield that if I was single, sick, or alone with really nothing to do, I’d just read that, but I’m at the end of Little Women and want to finish that up before I start another one. I like to have at least 2/3 books going at one time otherwise I go through them too quickly, plus it gives me the chance to say, “Hmmm, where do I want to go right now?” Then I have choices, kind of like vacation homes, LOL.

Oh, I’m so glad you are liking it.  There ARE sad parts–just wait, I don’t even think the earlier chapters are the saddest part.  But yes, he sticks in such slyly funny parts.  We JUST finished reading this aloud to all my boys.  It took us ALL SCHOOL YEAR.  But it was so worth it!  Even my just turned 12yo commented on how much he liked parts of it (as a whole it was a bit long for him and lost him in parts.)  We read it aloud because my oldest, just graduated senior was balking some at reading it himself, but now he is glad we read it too. I think after A Christmas Carol it is the most accessible Dickens.  My next favorites are Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, and I think the funniest is Pickwick Papers.  (Hilarious.  Just hilarious.  There are a couple of scenes that made me worry I’d had such big babies )

I LOVED Stepping Heavenward as well.  When I was a newer Christian, I used to get so frustrated at what seemed like a lack of progress–it seemed I was forever making the same mistakes and I got discouraged.  When someone told me I HAD to read Stepping  Heavenward, it made such a huge difference to me–because the heroine, as a new Christian, felt the SAME WAY , yet *I* could see how much she was growing.  Made me re-evaluate how I was doing as well.  Terrific, terrific book.  In about the same season I also read Hinds Feet on High Places, and I remember it felt to me like I had two new supports to help me along.