Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 That's yours, not your kids'. I do get to books throughout the year, not many, a few. But, this will be the first year in...3? 4? years that I have not been in school, obligated to read textbooks. I'll entertain any ideas. So far, I'll be reading How to read a book Queen bees and wanna bees Misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis of gifted children and adults The well-adjusted child The five love languages Hold on to your kids Helping children with specific learning disabilities Stepping heavenward (I read this every year) The hidden art of homemaking (another book I’m not mentioning because of controversy) Screwtape Letters (again) Mere Christianity (tried before, didn't get very far :tongue_smilie:) I'm not particular as you can see. I need some fiction in there though. A long time ago, I read Grisham and Kellerman (Johnathon), fantasy (dragons, wizards, and all that jazz), scifi. I'd like more nonfiction too- another thread on teaching creation vs. evolution mentioned someone reading a Dawkins book and another book side-by-side. I think I'd like to read both of those, but can't remember the names of the books. So, post what you're thinking of reading here, please! I'm getting ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 The beginning of my book list for the reading challenge: Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Jane Austin - Sense and Sensibility and Emma Cervantes - Don Quixote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I need some non-fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 The beginning of my book list for the reading challenge:Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Jane Austin - Sense and Sensibility and Emma Cervantes - Don Quixote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I need some non-fiction. I like these ideas- I haven't read any of these except AAW and TLG, (I just finished reading them to dd! She wants me to read them again...sometime down the road :D.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I don't have my year planned out, but here's a few that I know I'll be getting into right away: History of the Ancient World History of the Medieval World Elementary Mathematics for Teachers Superfreakonomics For the Children's Sake Seasons of a Mother's Heart I'll probably re-read Liping Ma's book Gut & Psychology Syndrome Climbing Parnassus And of course, I will be continuing along in my WEM reading list. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 I don't have my year planned out, but here's a few that I know I'll be getting into right away: History of the Ancient World History of the Medieval World Elementary Mathematics for Teachers Superfreakonomics For the Children's Sake Seasons of a Mother's Heart I'll probably re-read Liping Ma's book Gut & Psychology Syndrome Climbing Parnassus And of course, I will be continuing along in my WEM reading list. :) I forgot about Climbing Parnassus. I saw it on the library shelf the other day and purposed to put it on my list (then promptly forgot since I didn't start the list until 20 minutes ago). What's Superfreakonomics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I forgot about Climbing Parnassus. I saw it on the library shelf the other day and purposed to put it on my list (then promptly forgot since I didn't start the list until 20 minutes ago). What's Superfreakonomics? Amazon.com Review Book Description The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary? SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? How much good do car seats do? What's the best way to catch a terrorist? Did TV cause a rise in crime? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over – but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match. I read the original, Freakonomics, so I'm looking forward to this one. The reviews I asked about here are not as good as for the first, but I'll still give it a read and decide for myself. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Nonfiction that I own and saving for Christmas break and the new year: Don't Waste Your Life (Piper) Contending for Our All: Athanasius, John Owen, J. Gersham Machen (Piper) Filling up the Afflictions of Christ: Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, John Paton (Piper) The Gospel-Driven Life (Micheal Horton) Gospel-Powered Parenting (William P. Farley) Say Goodby to Whining, Complaining, & Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids (Turansky) The Home Education of a Boy (William B. Barrett, c.1950) 1776 (David McCullough) Fiction that I own and just haven't gotten around to reading: David Copperfield (Dickens) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe) Current library stack... Life of Pi (Martel) The Art Thief (Charney) The Lady and the Unicorn (Chevalier) and a bunch more that were mentioned in the 3 favorites of the year thread that I now have on hold. LOL. The rest I just don't know about yet. We'll see what the year brings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 and a bunch more that were mentioned in the 3 favorites of the year thread that I now have on hold. LOL. I just found that thread and am combing through it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 David Copperfield (Dickens) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe) David Copperfield is one of my top 3 favorite books ever! I was just thinking about starting with it and have it in my hand as we speak! And we just finished Uncle Tom - loved it (but very emotional). So far I've got: Bleak House (Dickens) Pride and Prejudice (yes, I know, but I've never actually read it!) and Emma Othello and Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) Walden and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) Omnivore's Dilemma Thinking of adding: Some Bradbury works A History of the Ancient World A History of the Medieval World Eats, Shoots & Leaves And that's it so far. I'm loving reading the lists of favs and worst on the other threads, as well as the lists here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 My list is ridiculously long (and I won't read this many/titles may change), but here is my list in progress (without read-alouds and our history chapter books): Biography/Autobiography/Memoir: Mt Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by George Sayer In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. My Life in France by Julia Child Amos Fortune: Free Man Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson Francophile: *My Life in France by Julia Child The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery French Milk I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do) French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano A Corner in the Marais by Alex Karmel Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language From the South of France by Kristin Espinasse Literature: Quo Vadis The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Strong Poison, Have His Carcass, and Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Sequels and Series: The Squire's Tales (books #3-8) by Gerald Morris A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle The Hunger Games #3 The Black Cauldron (The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King, and The Foundling) by Lloyd Alexander Shakespeare's Scribe (Shakespeare's Spy) The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald Man of the Family The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis (for the umpteenth time) ChocLit Guild (Book Club): *Quo Vadis The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey *Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis by George Sayer Twilight *Huckleberry Finn The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Don't really have a specific list yet, but I'm always scribbling notes to myself of things that look interesting.... So, perhaps I'll read a few of these in the upcoming year (in no particular order): Cotton some more Terry Pratchett books (of his, read Hogfather earlier this year & am currently reading & loving Good Omens) Mao's Last Dancer the Harry Potter series (I've read bits & pieces & seen the movies, but I'll read them per request of my ds, who has read them so many times they're falling apart) the Death Note manga series (per request of my nephew who has read them & is asking me to read them) an Iain Pears book Rebecca Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook The Help Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina Eat My Globe The Swan Thieves Martyr The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Half Broke Horses Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen The Worst Journey in the World and many more... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 My list is ridiculously long (and I won't read this many/titles may change), but here is my list in progress (without read-alouds and our history chapter books): Good point: please do not include read-alouds with kiddos or anything associated with you homeschooling them (well, except resource books for you if you want to include those- like Liping Ma or Ruth Beechick. Hope this makes sense.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I don't really have a list but I do have some titles in mind that I would like to get to this year. The Help--Stockett Same Kind of Different as Me--Hall Tess of the D'Urbervilles--Hardy Sir Gawain and the Green Knight--Tolkien Once and Future King Habits of the Mind--Sire Six Great Idea--Adler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 (edited) Kristin Lavransdatter is my New Year's Resolution I'm not much of a planner, but I'd like to read in the nearish future: the one-off Sharon Kay Penman novels (the mysteries) all the Allison Weir released in the last 10 years (I've been lax there) Kage Baker's newest novels The Goshawk by T.H. White (Auto)biographies/journals: Rik Mayall, Werner Herzog, David Attenborough, L.M. Boston, Kipling, Farley Mowat more Christopher Moore more Salman Rushdie The Monk Melmouth the Wanderer the major works of Mark Twain :blushing: ETA: Life of Fred: Linear Algebra (just out) Edited December 23, 2009 by nmoira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I don't have a list, per se. I get to order books for the library, so I guess I pick from the hot lists quite a bit. Every year, though, I read all the Canada Reads books. List here. Right now, in my little stack, I have: Lustrum by Robert Harris (reading this one now) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (the description looks more promising than her previous novel *fingers crossed*) Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood and Last Words (George Carlin's autobio). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 My list is ridiculously long (and I won't read this many/titles may change), but here is my list in progress (without read-alouds and our history chapter books): Strong Poison, Have His Carcass, and Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers Sequels and Series: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Oh, oh, I love Dorothy Sayers. I devoured all her books. I may just have to re-read some or all of them I will definitely look for "The Book Thief" since it was recommended here so many times. I am waiting for the next release of Peters' book in April - "River in the Sky" - I may have butchered the title. When life gets too crazy, I love to re-read "Tales from Avonlea" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Other than that, I can certainly use more suggestions. What is "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" all about - and who thought up this title?? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 (edited) Well - I've joined a few challenges and have quite a few books on the nightstand A Canticle for Leibewitz - Walter Miller (sci fi) A Choice of Gods - Clifford Simak (sci fi) A Room with Dark Mirrors - Velda Johnson (suspense) 2nd Chance - James Patterson (mystery) 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs (mystery) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Historic) Bearing An Hourglass-Piers Anthony (sci fi) City of Bones - Cassandra Clare (ya paranormal) Cold River - Carla Neggers (suspense) Comes a Horseman - Robert Liparulo (suspense) Dark of Night - Suzanne Brockmann (romantic suspense) Daughters of Eve - Lois Duncan (ya) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (historical) Dear and Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell (historical) Death Dream-Ben Bova (sci fi) Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan (ya) Down a Dark Hall - Lois Duncan (ya) Dragonsinger - Anne Mccaffrey (sci fi) Dune - Frank Herbert (Sci Fi) Emma - Jane Austen (historical) Everlasting - Kathleen Woodiwiss (historical) Eye of the World - Robert Jordan (sci fi) Falls the Shadows - Sharon kay Penman (historical) Friday - Robert Heinlein (sci fi) Glory Road - Robert Heinlien (sci fi) Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman (historical) His Excellency George Washington (nf) Hothouse Orchid - Stuart Woods (mystery) House on the Strand - Daphne DuMaurier (historical suspense) Ice - Linda Howard (mystery) Jane Emily - Patricia Clap (ya) John Adams - David McCullough (nf) Kill for Me - Karen Rose (suspense) Lost Souls #5 - Lisa Jackson (mystery) M is for Murder - Sue Grafton (mystery) Maximum Ride the Angel Experiment - J. Patterson (ya sci fi) Only Milo - Barry Smith (mystery) Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton (mystery) Project Pope - Clifford Simak (sci fi) Promise Me - Harlan Coben (suspense) Rainwater - Sandra Brown (historical) Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally (german history) Servant: The Kindred - L.L. Foster (paranormal romance) Shiver #4 - Lisa Jackson (mystery) Soul Catcher - Leigh Bridger (urban fantasy) Stranger with My Face - Lois Duncan ( ya) Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers (british mystery) Sudden Death - Allison Brennan (suspense) Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan (ya) The 39 Clues #1 - Rick Riordan (ya mystery) The Appeal - John Grisham (legal fiction) The Bible of Clay - Julia Navarro (bible thriller) The Confessions of St. Augustine (nf) The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester (sci fi) The Gatekeeper - Michelle Gagnon (mystery) The Hidden Treasures of Glaston - Eleanore Jewett (historical) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery (child fantasy) The Lost City of Z - David Grann (nf historical) The Millionaires - Brad Meltzer (political thriller) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (historical) The Night Before #3 - Lisa Jackson (mystery) The Perfect Couple - Brenda Novak (romantic suspense) The Road to Jerusalem - Jan Guillou (historical fiction) The Scarlet and the Black - J.P. Gallagher (nf) The Third Circle - Amanda Quick (historical) The Tower of Shadow - Drew Bowling The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold (sci fi) The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin (ya) Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (sci fi romance) To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer (sci fi) Under the Dome - Stephen King (Horror) Unnatural Death - Dorothy Sayers (british mystery) Untraceable - Laura Griffin (mystery) When Christ and His Saints Slept - Sharon Kay Penman (historical) Wicked Games # 6 - Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush (mystery) Wizards First Rule - Terry Goodkind (fantasy) On my E-Reader have Sense and Sensibility, Dune, Dracula and a few others can't think of right now. I've also joined a speculative fiction challenge and have been discovering some interesting books. Edited December 23, 2009 by Mytwoblessings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 The rest of the Ringing Cedars series. Finish Cupid's Poisoned Arrow by Marnia Robinson. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. To Kill a Mockingbird. Possibly Pride and Prejudice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Lea Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Stepping Heavenward and Mere Christianity, which I also started years ago but never finished. Also I'll be finishing... -Little Women -Microbe Hunters -Age of Opportunity (parenting teens book) More reading later... -Little Men -Joes Boys -Emma -Tale of Two Cities Always reading the Bible:). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 The first two books on my list are: My Antonia, Willa Cather Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky and I think I may pick something from Samuel Beckett next... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Finish THe Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Kite Runner, Watership Down, The Help, The Thirteenth Tale, Merchant of Venice; Hitler, A Study in Tyranny; The Good Earth, Leviathan and LOTS more :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I want to finish all of Josephine Tey's and Connie Willis's books that are available at my library. I also want to try: Percy Jackson books the sequel to The Giver the third book of the Mysterious Benedict Society The Eight Fucoult's Pendulum (sp?) Robert Lee Hall's Benjamin Franklin detective books I have some books that are popular here on my list but that doesn't necessarily mean that I will read them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I Alex Cross a couple of Jane Austin Novels Several books from ds high school AP English/lit class that I was never required to read in High School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I've also decided to add some Sherlock stories and some Dorothy Sayers that I haven't read yet. David Copperfield is one of my top 3 favorite books ever! I was just thinking about starting with it and have it in my hand as we speak! And we just finished Uncle Tom - loved it (but very emotional). So far I've got: Bleak House (Dickens) Pride and Prejudice (yes, I know, but I've never actually read it!) and Emma Othello and Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) Walden and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) Omnivore's Dilemma Thinking of adding: Some Bradbury works A History of the Ancient World A History of the Medieval World Eats, Shoots & Leaves And that's it so far. I'm loving reading the lists of favs and worst on the other threads, as well as the lists here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Oh, oh, I love Dorothy Sayers. I devoured all her books. I may just have to re-read some or all of them I will definitely look for "The Book Thief" since it was recommended here so many times. I am waiting for the next release of Peters' book in April - "River in the Sky" - I may have butchered the title. When life gets too crazy, I love to re-read "Tales from Avonlea" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Other than that, I can certainly use more suggestions. What is "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" all about - and who thought up this title?? :D Hmmm. I'm thinking I need to look up Dorothy Sayer's books. I haven't read anything of hers after "Lost Tools of Learning." There are a lot of books from these threads I hadn't heard of; now my interest is really peaked and it will be hard to narrow down what I want to read. Well, narrow it down after I narrow it down to what's available in the local library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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