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What are the Moms reading!?!?
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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.
TukataParticipantSimpleHome – 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.
TiaParticipantPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Home Education by Charlotte Mason
Radical by David Platt
Reading Heidi to the girls in the evening.
blue jParticipantMy 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 LoveOn 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 BeckthepinkballerinaParticipantI just bought The Pilgram’s Progress by John Bunyan. Anyone read it?
Tara
Shannan79MemberI 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
RobinPParticipantI 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.)
BookwormParticipantIt’s a shame how under-valued Kate Seredy is. Her books are some of the finest ever written for children, IMO.
my3boysParticipantSo now I have to look up Kate Seredy. I look up practically EVERYTHING that is mentioned on this forum.
RobinPParticipantOh 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.
my3boysParticipantI will definitely be taking your suggestions:) Thanks.
BritneyMembertukata- How are you able to read through the Bible this way? Are you using a certain book to guide you? Sounds interesting!
LadyofthehouseMemberBible- 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)
Rachel WhiteParticipantCurrent;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
BookwormParticipantJane 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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