Currently Reading

Morning Manna

In the Secret Place

Words in a French Life

Books Read in 2012

1. Forgotten God

2. The Help

3. Portes Provençales (en français)

4. The Runaway Quilt

5. One Thousand Gifts

6. Seven Ages of Paris

7. Fahrenheit 451

Books read in 2011

1. The Quilter's Apprentice

2. Night

3. Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

4. Answering I

5. Round Robin

6. (Finished) Bruce and Stan's study on Ephesians: Finding Your Identity in Christ

7. (Finished) H.A. Ironside's Commentary on Ephesians

8. (Finished) MacArthur's study on Ephesians: Our Immeasurable Blessings in Christ

9. (Finished) Blackaby's small group study on Ephesians

10. (Finished) Piper's sermons from Ephesians (online)

11. There's Gotta Be More!

12. The Moonstone

13. The Fiddler's Gun

14. War of Words

15. The Fiddler's Green (Fin's Revolution)

16. The Rookery

17. The Fiddler's Gun: Letters

18. 30 Days to a Great Attitude

19. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

20. A Stolen Life

21. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

22. Tears of the Giraffe

23. Morality for Beautiful Girls

24. A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

25. The Kalahari Typing School for Men

26. The Full Cupboard of Life

27. The Lost Symbol

28. In the Shadow of the Sun King

29. A Prisoner of Versailles

30. War of Words (second time)

31. Finally Alive!

32. The Cross and the Switchblade

33. Where Hearts are Free

34. Get It Together, Girl! (A de-cluttering/organizing book)

35. The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ

36. Conversation Peace

37. 31 Days to Clean: Having a Martha Home the Mary Way

38. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

39. As Sure as the Dawn

40. Taming the Tongue

41. The Bible

--Plus: Psalms 2 more times, Proverbs 5 more times, Ephesians more times than I can count.

42. 3:16, The Numbers of Hope

43. A Guide to Art Nouveau Style

44. The Hip Girl's Guide to Home Making

45. Lord, Teach Me How to Pray

46. The Cross Country Quilters

47. A Christmas Carol

48. Matthew Henry's Discourse on Meekness

Partially Read:

--Moby Dick

--On the Edge of the Sea of Darkness

--The Essential Five

--Treasure Island

Books read in 2010

1. More Than a Carpenter

2. The Summons

3. Raise the Titanic!

4. 1984

5. Total Money Makeover

6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

7. The View from Saturday

8. Through Her Eyes
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10. Animal Farm

11. Same Kind of Different As Me

12. Mondays in the Middle East

13. The Financially Confident Woman

14. Peace Like a River *** HIGHLY RECOMMEND***

15. What in the World is Going On?

16. Crazy Love

17. Freakonomics (I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I don't think everyone would)

18. The Screwtape Letters

19. Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

20. Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman

21. Loving God with all your Mind

22. Surprised by Joy

23. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

24. The Noticer

25. Tea with Hezbollah

26. My Life in France

27. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

28. The Witness

29. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

30. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

31. The Siege of Mecca

32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

33. The Novelist

34. A Movable Feast

35. Save the Males

36. The Bible

--Plus: Psalms a second time, Esther 3 times, Proverbs 12 times, several NT letters 2-3 times, and Ephesians more times than can be counted.

37. Winne-the-Pooh

38. What Went Wrong?

Partially Read:

H.A. Ironside's Commentary on Ephesians

MacArthur's study on Ephesians: Our Immeasurable Blessings in Christ

Blackaby's small group study on Ephesians

Bruce and Stan's study on Ephesians: Finding Your Identity in Christ

Piper's sermons from Ephesians (online)

Books read in 2009

1. Atlantis Found

2. The Three Musketeers

3. The Shack

4. A Year in Provence

5. Walking with God

6. Blessed Child

7. Journey to Jo'burg

8. The City of Dreaming Books

9. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

10. HP & The Philosopher's Stone

11. HP & The Chamber of Secrets

12. The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin

13. HP & The Prisoner of Azkaban

14. Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
(Sidebar comment: I began reading several books about singleness to see if someone has already written something that covers what I want to say in my "manifesto." If so, I don't have to write it, and can just recommend the book.)

15. Get Married: What Women Can Do To Make It Happen

16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

17. While Europe Slept

18. For Women Only

19. Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? (The title for this book is all wrong. It should be titled something about how to be the Proverbs 31 woman as a single.)
20. Passion and Purity (for the upteenth million time)
21. Marriable: Taking the Desperate out of Dating

22. Travels with Charley in Search of America

23. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

24. The Martyr's Song

(I recommend the books in bold.)

Books read in 2008

1. A Year of Living Biblically
2. Les Miserables (Edited and abridged by Laurence Porter, Translated by C.E. Wilbur)
3. Anne of the Island
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. Bridge to Terabithia
6. Pig in a Taxi
7. Cecile: Gates of Gold
8. Holes
9. Maniac McGee
10. Looking for Alaska
11. The Babylon Blog
12. Atonement
13. Twilight
14. New Moon
15. Eclipse
16. What a Girl Wants
17. She's Out of Control
18. Breaking Dawn
19. The Poisonwood Bible

20. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (by Mark Twain!)

21. Little Women

22. Persuasion

23. Switching to a Mac for Dummies

24. Servant on the Edge of History

25. Reflections on the Psalms

26. 60 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

27. Black: The Birth of Evil

28. Paper Towns

29. An Abundance of Katherines

30. The Runny Babbit

31. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
32. Metrostop: Paris

33. Catcher in the Rye

34. The Bible

Partially read:

1. Walking with God

2. Atlantis Found

(Recommended books are in bold.)

Books Read in 2007

1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame*
2. A Cracked Pot
3. Dixieland Sushi
4. Looking for Cassandra Jane
5. A Child Called 'It'
6. The Lost Boy
7. All American Girl
8. Sharif
9. A Series of Unfortunate Events
a. The Bad Beginning
b. The Reptile Room
c. The Wide Window
10. English Grammar for French Students
11. Abraham
12. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
13. Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
14. The Mermaid Chair
15. Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone
16. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
17. M, M, and M (work book)
18. To Kill a Mockingbird
19. French or Foe?
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
21. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*
22. A Passion for the Impossible
23. The Hiding Place
24. Fatima's Good Fortune
25. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*
26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*
27. M,M, and M (another work book)
28. Le Petit Prince (in French!)
29. Savoir Flaire!
30. Betryal in Paris
31. The Passion of Christ
32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*
33. Jesus and Mo.--a comparison
34. The Unfinished Battle
35. The Scarlet Pimpernel
36. The Book of God (the Bible as a novel)*
37. The Count of Monte Cristo*
38. Limiting God
39. Heart Full of Soul
40. Watership Down

*More than 500 pages

Partially Read:
1. Suite Française
2. Streams in the Desert--daily devotional
3. David Copperfield
4. To the Scaffold (biography of Marie Antoinette)