What are the Moms reading!?!?

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  • February 13, 2011 at 4:45 am
    momof4
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    I am reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.I ‘m in chapter 5 now and I am liking it so far.

    I am planning to buy 1,000 Gifts soon.

     

    February 14, 2011 at 3:12 am
    Tukata
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    SimpleHome – Your list makes me think we’re kindred spirits at least in a book-way!  I haven’t read Large Family Logistics yet but it’s been on my wishlist!  Let me know how you like it.  I haven’t read the Mother Teresa one either.  I loved North and South and LOVED the version on Netflix.

    I’m reading through the Bible this year – each day it’s a portion from the Pentateuch and History of Israel, Chronicles and Prophets, Psalms and Wisdom Lit., and Gospels and Epistles.  I LOVE reading it this way – almost CM to me – short readings in those sections, lingering through the year.  

    Also, 1000 Gifts

    just finished Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell – best of her books, I think. 

    With the kids just finished Teddy’s Button and Alice in Wonderland and today started Pollyanna and Seven Little Sisters who Live on the ball that floats.

    I love this thread!  So fun to see what everyone’s reading and to get more ideas.

    February 14, 2011 at 7:07 pm
    Tia
    Participant

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Home Education by Charlotte Mason

    Radical by David Platt

    Reading Heidi to the girls in the evening. 

    February 17, 2011 at 2:45 am
    blue j
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    My reading list consists of some items that aren’t books, but still something that I look forward to reading daily:

    quotes.liberty-tree.ca’s daily trio email
    various seed catalogs
    Proverbs – Bible
    Laying Down the Rails
    Queen Esther’s Secrets of Womanhood: A Biblical Rite of Passage for Your Daughter
    Rembrandt (coffee table type book chock full of large pictures of his works)
    The Mentor Leader
    Go Put Your Strengths to Work
    48 Days to the Work You Love

    On the docket to be read shortly:

    Root Cellaring
    All New Square Foot Gardening
    Encyclopedia of Country Living
    Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence
    The Blessing of Boundaries
    Debt Free U: How I Paid For and Oustanding College Education w/out Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off of My Parents (Have one who already graduated, but have one who’s looking at a different area for schooling and another that wants to go to a rather expensive trade school in 2 years that doesn’t take any kind of aid or scholarship $ whatsoever)
    Broke by Glenn Beck

    February 17, 2011 at 3:49 am
    thepinkballerina
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    I just bought The Pilgram’s Progress by John Bunyan. Anyone read it?

    Tara

    February 21, 2011 at 5:33 am
    Shannan79
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    I am currently reading

    Home Education by Charlotte Mason hope to be finished by this time next week.

    The Sleeping Beauty which is kids classic. Will probably reread it to my daughter sometime in the fall.

    I have just finished A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levinson

     

     

    February 21, 2011 at 12:57 pm
    RobinP
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    I don’t read many new adult books.  I usually am reading something off my library shelves.  Currently – Papa’s Wife by Thyra Bjorn.  Before that – Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer.  And before that – The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy (outSTANDing.)

    February 21, 2011 at 1:56 pm
    Bookworm
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    It’s a shame how under-valued Kate Seredy is.  Her books are some of the finest ever written for children, IMO. 

    February 21, 2011 at 4:36 pm
    my3boys
    Participant

    So now I have to look up Kate SeredyWink.  I look up practically EVERYTHING that is mentioned on this forum.

    February 21, 2011 at 6:53 pm
    RobinP
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    Oh my, Seredy is one of my all-time favorite authors.  The Singing Tree is wonderful.  (Read The Good Master first -semi-autobiographical of Kate.)   A Tree for Peter is NOT to be missed!  The Open Gate…oh dear…wish I had more time to read. 

    February 21, 2011 at 7:14 pm
    my3boys
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    I will definitely be taking your suggestions:)  Thanks.

    February 22, 2011 at 1:37 am
    Britney
    Member

    tukata- How are you able to read through the Bible this way? Are you using a certain book to guide you? Sounds interesting!

    February 22, 2011 at 3:33 am
    Ladyofthehouse
    Member

    Bible- Exodus

    “Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World” by Joanna Weaver

    “The Passion of Artemisia” by Susan Vreeland (about an Italian woman artist who befriends Galileo)

    “1000 Gifts” Ann Voscamp

    Excited to try some Gaskell next after all the recommendations :o)

    February 22, 2011 at 1:07 pm
    Rachel White
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    Current;y reading acoording to my mood:

    Restoration – D. Thomas Lancaster

    The Greatest Commandment:How the Sh’ma Leads to more Love in your Life -Irene LIpson

    A Patriot’s History of the United States:From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror -Larry Schweikart

    Honoring G-d with my LIfe -Miriam Nadler

    How we Got the Bible-Neil Lightfoot

    I’ve considered adding Jane Austin to my list, as I have never read her. I’m not a fan of romance stuff and that’s what has deterred from reading her books; I get the impression that there’s a lot of romance. Anyone want to convince me to try her? There’s so much good history to read about (my wishlist at Amazon is ridiculous!) without wasting my precious reading time on romantic fluff…

    Rachel

     

    February 22, 2011 at 2:20 pm
    Bookworm
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    Jane Austen is NOT romantic fluff.  The distance between Austen and, say, a Harlequin is immense.  Jane Austen is sophisticated social commentary.  From a woman’s point of view, which at the time necessarily was often centered on relationships with men.  Weddings DO happen at the end, but the novels actually concentrate on other topics.  My favorites:

    Emma–about a young woman who “knows it all” and how it turns out she really doesn’t

    Pride and Prejudice–about how our first shallow impressions are often way off base

    Persuasion–my favorite Austen heroine.  About how we shouldn’t let others talk us out of doing what we know is right

     

    Ladyofthehouse–Read “Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World” a couple of years ago and it was SO good!  Are you enjoying it?

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