Saturday, December 26, 2015

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author, and not necessarily in the order read.


"Once Upon a Christmas Time"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[memoir, childhood,  Sweden]


"All Over Town"
by Carol Ryrie Brink  
[children's fiction]

"Emily's Runaway Imagination"
by Beverly Cleary
[children's fiction]

 "A Christmas Carol"
by Charles Dickens
[fiction]
my yearly December 24th reading

"Try Giving Yourself Away"
by David Dunn
[nonfiction]
a great favorite of mine,
with some wonderful anecdotes

"In Trouble Again,  Zelda Hammersmith?"
"Zelda Strikes Again"
"Here Comes Zelda Claus
and Other Holiday Disasters"
by Lynn Hall
[children's fiction]

"Betsy's Winterhouse"
by Carolyn Haywood
[children's fiction]

 "Astrid Lindgren
Storyteller To The World"
by Johanna Hurwitz
[children's biography]


 "The Imitation of Christ"
by Thomas a Kempis
long-term devotional reading
(Kindle book)

"Little Little"
by M. E. Kerr
[YA fiction]

"A Right to Be Merry"
by Mother Mary Francis, P. C. C
(Kindle book)
reserved for Sunday

 "The Sixth Prune"
by Robert R. Updegraff
[fiction]

 "Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson"
 edited by Stephen E. Whichter
[nonfiction] 

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...