Monday, September 6, 2010

2010 Reading List

Bolded titles are ones that I have read so far this year.

A Study in Scarlett - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Prayer is a Place - Phyllis Tickle
Life Together - Deitrich Bonhoeffer
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
World Without End - Ken Follet
Emma - Jane Austen
The Zookeeper's Wife
Red Moon Rising
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Eat Pray Love
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Letters to a Young Evangelical - Tony Campolo
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Good Omens- Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
The Name of the Wind - 
The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman
The Checklist Manifesto
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
How Can My Kid Succeed in School? - Craig Puhlman
Pope Joan
Say You're One of Them 
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan

Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martell
The Well-Trained Mind; A Guide to Classical Education
The Core
Last Child in the Woods- Richard Louv
The Sparrow
Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Flowers for Algernon

So, I still love Neil Gaiman.  Also, I've reread a few of the Harry Potter books and Breaking Dawn of the Twilight series. Any suggestions?

Me now.

Teaching 3rd Grade.

Not ready to get pregnant yet.

Sleepy all the time.

Trying to live by this: Early to bed, early to rise.

Also trying to live by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Failing at both of those pretty regularly.

Dreaming (literally and figuratively) of Europe.

Still very much in love with Daniel.

Happy. 

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wet Fleece, Dry Fleece

I feel like Gideon. 

Lord, give me a sign. Let this fleece be wet tomorrow morning but the ground remain dry so that I may know it is you speaking to me and sending me.

Amen.