Robin M Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Today is the start of book week 47 and the quest to read 52 books in 52 weeks. Where are you in your quest? Mr. Linky is all set up on the 52 books blog and ready for you to link to your reviews. 52 books blog - T is for thanksgiving. What a coincidence that this week starts with T. What are you thankful for this week. I'm thankful for all the blessings in my life and each and every single day. Especially today since it is my birthday - the big 51. I really don't need more books. However... Can't think of anything else that I want. I don't 'need' anything. Sending John and James off with a big list to the store. Will be interesting to see what they come back with. What are you reading this week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 bumpity, bumpity, bumpity. Bumping since I'm not reading anything, just writing, writing, writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I finished Among the Free last night. I think today I will start the Duggar's book. Happy Birthday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I've been reading more murder mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert and Boris Akunin. I think I've cleaned out that shelf of the library :001_huh::) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Reading Wolves and Honey...a Natural History of the Seneca Falls area of NY....and also Cowboys and Ranchers by Albert Marrin. I am at book 50 if I count the Little House series that I read to the boys and also the Narnia series, also read aloud this summer. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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eaglei Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 This week I finished up #62 - Legacy of a Pack Rat, by Ruth Bell Graham. Inspirational short *devotional*-type writings - as expected. Am about to finish #63 - Good Morning, Merry Sunshine: A Father's Journal of His Child's First Year, by Bob Greene. I first read this book long years ago before I was a mom and it made an impression on me - so much so that I kept it all these years. I am now re-reading it, with the intention of passing it on when I finish - and wondering if I actually will pass it on . . . Reading it from this side of motherhood is a happy/sad/nostalgic trip down memory lane. I've been teary more than once reading it, and I've also laughed out loud at some of it, and nodded my head in complete understanding, too. I have particularly appreciated his honesty concerning the travel his job entailed as my dh for a time had to travel also and we could not always go with him. The author's keen observations are spot-on and I find myself recalling many different stories about my own ds' first year - and am doubly glad I wrote as many notes and stories about those early years as I did (and still do!) Up next is an Elizabeth Goudge book - my first ever by this author. I am looking forward to it based on the responses to this author on another Hive thread. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I've almost finished Wuthering Heights this week. Don't love it, but love this discussion going on over on the high school board about the book! It's that crazy time of year for a church musician -- I'm not sure how much reading or listening to audio books I'll accomplish between now and Christmas as the music obligations are beginning to pile up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I finished Crashing Through by Robert Kurson. It was awesome. It's the true story about a man who was blinded as a child, but regained his sight as an adult. Very inspiring. I also finished #44, The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike. It was good if you like vampire stories. I'm on Black Blood (the 2nd in the Christopher Pike series) now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 Stacia, I have to say that I absolutely LOVE that image. :D Fat and chubby babies just bring a smile to my face. I just want to squoosh and moosh those cheeks. Thank you for making my morning. :grouphug: I miss you. :) Wish I had a good book recommendation for you. It can be hard. I'm reading up on the HCG diet ... in an effort to try to lose anywhere from 10-20 pounds and hopefully keep it off. Trying to read up as much as I can on this before hopefully starting it soon. Very boring, I know ;). No time for fiction at the moment. And I really and truly miss some good fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 I've almost finished Wuthering Heights this week. Don't love it, but love this discussion going on over on the high school board about the book! It's that crazy time of year for a church musician -- I'm not sure how much reading or listening to audio books I'll accomplish between now and Christmas as the music obligations are beginning to pile up. How about playing through a few entire hynmals/songbooks while you practice and counting those;):D? Technically, you will be reading books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I finished the Duggar book. I'm reading through Montaigne again as I had put it aside while I was caught up in the Shadow Children series. I have to keep reminding myself of when Montaigne was alive to keep from getting annoyed at what is written about women. I wonder if I had been alive then if I would have been upset at the attitude toward women or if I would have believed and accepted it as that is how I would have brought up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Don't know if any of you ever buy books through AbeBooks, but they sent an email about 'give a weird book as a gift for the holidays' :lol:. Thought some of you might enjoy looking through some of their weird ones. http://www.abebooks.com/books/Newsletters/101124/h00-weirdbkrA-orig.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-101124-h00-weirdbkrA-_-h-online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I finished Black Blood and now I'm on Red Dice, the third book in the Christopher Pike series I mentioned before. :) It's #46 for me so I'm almost caught up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I read Extras, the companion book to the Uglies trilogy. Dd is starting the 3rd book in the series, but so far hasn't said much to me about it. Not sure yet what I'll read over Thankgsiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithr Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 I am sinking fast and needed to throw things overboard. NaNoWriMo went by the wayside. I gave up on Life of Johnson by Boswell. Not that I didn't like it but I just felt the timing was wrong for me to really enjoy it right now. I'm vowing to read again at another less overwhelming time of the year. Still struggling through Confessions by Augustine but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Tried to read this awful, awful book called The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Now I know why I don't read a lot of modern books, so incredibly bleak and sordid and brutal and crude. I got through about 2/3's and then decided life was too short. I started reading it because it is set in Boston in 1917/18 which is when my imagined NaNoWriMo book was set. I wanted to read something historically set then. But the author is just so impoverished when it comes to any sort of moral imagination, felt like I had to take a bath every time I read it! So now I've started on The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin. Ah! Something noble and cheerful! Breath of fresh air! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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