Mom Culture! What are you reading now?

I’m reading A Memory of Violets, Hazel Gaynor … period fiction … excellent so far!

Just finished The Right Side of Normal by Carol Gaddis and almost finished with Caught Up in a Story by Sarah Clarkson. Both are interesting and encouraging in their own way.

I am debating about which to start of these: Your Child’s Strengths by Jenifer Fox, Discover Your Child’s Learning Styles by Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson, and Good Music, Brighter Children by Sharlene Habermeyer next.

For more leisurely reading, I have been revisiting some of my Louis L’Amour books. 😉

I appreciated Teaching From Rest. Have you listened to the audio interviews yet?

I’m reading No Ordinary Home by Carol Brazo. It’s book about Christ-Centered homemaking. I just started it but am enjoying it so far.

I’m also rereading the Anne of Green Gables series. My daughter and I read the first 2 together and she didn’t want to go on because of the romance factor. 🙂 So, I decided to carry on by myself.

I just added The Imitation Of Christ by Thomas a Kempis to my morning devotion books. It’s wonderful.

I’m halfway through And the Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers. It’s a very thought provoking book.

And the Shofar Blew is one of my favorite books!   I really think all young pastors ought to read it.

And Robin, I enjoy Joel Salatin, too.  It’s a shame our farm is a conventional dairy with too much debt to make the switch.  🙁

I just picked up Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy at a book sale.  He used Robert Louis Stevenson’s journals and other documents and pictures to make a very interesting book.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Life’s been so busy here, I forgot about this post!

Heather, I still think about Hester on occasion 😉

Since last posting, I’ve finished O Pioneers! by Willa Cather…which should be titled Oh MY!! I loved this story, but was utterly shocked by the ending. Here are some thoughts…

http://reflectionsfromdrywoodcreek.blogspot.com/2015/01/o-pioneers-my-first-willa-cather-novel.html

And, if you have not read Quo Vadis?, you must!! A friend and I read it at the same time and then met weekly, while our kids were in choir and art, to discuss it. It is fabulous!! I think everyone should read this book, though not until upper high school and adulthood…

http://reflectionsfromdrywoodcreek.blogspot.com/2015/03/quo-vadis-where-are-you-going.html

Can you tell I’m passionate about books 😉

Blessings,
Melissa

Meant to post this the other day when I saw Teaching from Rest mentioned, but I found a coupon code of for it — “alwaysamanda” — which saved a few dollars on the bundle.

I just finished a CM trio – Consider This, The Living Page, and When Children Love to Learn. I’m also reading the original series this year and have just started the 2nd book. Though I have always HSed with CM sensibilities, if that makes sense, and I’ve read several books *about* CM philosophy, I have never read the original series until know.

I’m also reading books about ducks, because we just got two ducklings a month ago. And I just got a book about making cheese, which I’ve never tried.

And I’m trying to read Psalms a great deal right now, just because I love them and they speak to me. And Ecclesiastes, because our pastor is going through it in his sermons.

I’ve also recently read some books to my 5yo that I never read to my older girls (16 and 21 – the 21yo is the one in my avatar, though she was much younger then) and I’ve really enjoyed them. One is Peter Pan, which my husband read to my olders but I had never actually read. My daughter loves it so much that I’ve read it to her twice at her request, after my husband read it to her the first time. Another is Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge.