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I got a Kindle for Christmas this year from my parents and I am having mixed feelings about it.
I aready miss the abilty to feel the progress that I am making, to be able to quickly flip to see how close the next chapter is, and feel the thickness of the pages change from the left to the right hand.
But the fact that I can buy a book with literally one click of a button is AMAZING instant gratification! I am so excited about the ease with which I can burn through books. AWESOME!
Keely will be glad I finally caved, but what would Jane Austen think?!?!?
We have undertaken and succeeded in a major organize/ rearrange of our house. It doesn't really look a whole lot different, but it sure feels good.
One of the things that we did was rearrange and go through our books. Miles and I have a TON of books. We have three large book shelves in our room crammed full of books and 16 large boxes in the attic full of books. It's getting out of hand.
Miles has lots of school books, as we were cleaning I was reading through some of his titles and following is a list of some of my favorite titles, currently on the shelves... (Let me preface this list by saying that I am not making fun of ANY of these books, they are all really interesting books, and Miles enjoyed reading all of them. I just think that they have funny titles)
Manliness and Civilization
Stylin' with CSS
Good Wives
Refusing the Favor
Satchmo Blows up the World
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away
Hamlet on the Holodeck
and my personal favorite, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs
This list is in no particular order... just the order that I remembered them in:
1. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. Three cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
5. Thunderstruck by Eric Larson
6. A Thousand Splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
7. The tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
8. Her last Death by Susana Sonnenburg
9. Jane Austen ruined my life by Beth Patillo
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. The Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
12. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. The Physik Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
15. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
16. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
17. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
18. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
19. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
My book club is reading this book this month. I am about half way through, and I am REALLY enjoying it. If you are looking for something to read... read this!
I am still alive, but on top of being nauseous pretty much all the time still, I have had a yucky cold that has taken over my life.
Also, I have become addicted to the Twilight books. Something that my 13 year old sister would be horrified by... don't tell her. ha ha ha (She's one of my most regular readers)
I went with some girlfriends to see the movie on Sunday night not knowing anything about the books, and by the end I decided that I would read the first book... and that was it. I have read the first two books (It's Tuesday night), and I am trying as hard as I can not to go and buy the 3rd book tonight. My mom is sending it to me and it will be here soon... I just need to know how the story ends... I hopelessly hooked.
I have wanted to update my reading list for a while, but 2008 is speeding by faster than I can keep up with... hence the following belated list...
Books I read in 2007
Baby Girls: An owner's manual by Theresa Foy DiGeronimo
Birth by Tina Cassidy
Blink by Ted Dekker
Childproofing your Marriage by Debbie L. Cherry
Daniel: Lives of Integrity; Words of Prophecy by Beth Moore
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan
Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Mr. Darcy takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
Philippians by Paul
Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Sacred Parenting by Gary L. Thomas
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Color of Water by James McBride
What to expect the first year by Heidi Murkoff, Sandee Hathaway, Heidi Eisenberg
It is sad that I only read 19 books in 2007, this may be an all time low... but to my credit I did read A LOT of children's books and my child started walking! And if you know Halleigh, you know that once she started walking, she never has quit! ha ha ha
I want to keep track of books that I read, and needed a place to keep track, so here it is. When I started my blog, I had a running list for 2007 in the right sidebar, and I have now updated it, so it is current. Hopefully I will do better keeping it updated this year. If you have any great books that you think that I would enjoy (Kelly, what is the name of the book you are reading now)... pass them along! Here's to happy reading in 2008! Cheers!
