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1. Here be Dragons

2. The Sunne in Splendour

3. The Devil's Brood

 

All Sharon Kay Penman, all the time. (At least until it runs out.)

 

Read alouds:

 

1. The House on Pooh Corner

2. Winter Wood (Augarde)

3. Winnie-the-Pooh

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Daughter of Time

Wow I am so behind. I have about 15 books going at once and haven't finished any of them. I have read a bunch of children's books b/c I am trying to keep up with dd 11.

 

Ok, I will try harder and finish something. Hopefully Don Quixote so I can contine with the Well-Educated Mind. :001_smile:

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I'm just finishing The Handmaid's Tale, and Sunshine and The Hungry Tide were before that. I didn't finish Nineteen Eighty-Four (too depressing and I've done enough dystopia recently) and The Rock (interesting, but not engaging for a novel) while I was reading the other three.

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Caps for Sale

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Crow Boy

:001_huh:

 

What has happened to me?

 

Lol, if I include kids books its:

Goodnight moon

Brown bear Brown bear what do you see

God gave us you

 

As for myself,

Dead before Dark

Strangers in Death

Magic Kingdom for Sale

 

I haven't had time for heavy stuff, though I have been trying to work my way through Stephen King's The Stand for a few months now. My 'to read' list is miles long, and I'm trying to set a goal of at least a book a month, preferably biweekly. I'm gonna have to start exercising my brain again soon though, I'll have to start reading heavier stuff for my English major soon :001_huh:

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1) Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Eleanor Pruitt Stewart; Wow--what a Woman!)

 

2) Murder in Belleville (Cara Black; this was an airplane book for a recent trip)

 

3) An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears; At 700+ pages, this book is commitment. Those who love historical fiction will enjoy every minute.)

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The Weight of Silence, by Heather Gudenkauf

The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck

Twenties Girls, by Sophie Kinsella

 

currently working on Shakespeare's The Tempest

 

 

... and with the kids...

 

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Little Pilgrim's Progress

All-of-a-Kind Family

 

next is Calico Captive.

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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis ....Wow! I'm the third one to post this.

 

:lol: This makes me so happy!

 

Mine are:

 

A Clockwork Orange

Up from Slavery (I had actually never read this - oh my gosh - so awesome!)

The Red Badge of Courage (ick - rereading this to discuss with my son)

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Green Earth by Fredrick Manfred

Rex Barks http://www.amazon.com/Rex-Barks-Diagramming-Sentences-Made/dp/1889439355

Several Dick King-Smiths in a sitting (to see which one kiddo would like).

 

Green Earth was by far the best: autobiographical novel of 1973 about life from about 1909-1929 for large poor family in NW Iowa, spanning the author's mother's life from age 18 until her death. Sort of Little Town on the Prairie without any sugar-coating, for grown-ups. But Rex Barks was very good, too.

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The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg after the fall of communism http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Land-Facing-Europes-Communism/dp/0679744991

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Terrific YA read http://www.amazon.com/Monstrumologist-Rick-Yancey/dp/1416984488

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy http://www.amazon.com/Moviegoer-Walker-Percy/dp/0375701966 If you are Catholic and love fiction he is your author. A brilliant and devastatingly brutal look at contemporary culture . I miss him.

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