Books Read In The Past Week

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


 "Nothing Is Impossible
The Story of Beatrix Potter"
by Dorothy Aldis
[children's biography]

  "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 

"Adventures With The Buttonwoods" #
"Mitsy Butterwood" #
by Edna Beiler
[children's fiction, Mennonite]

 "Julia's Magic"
"That Julia Redfern"
(physical copies)
"Julia And The Hand Of God"
(openlibrary.org loan) 
by Eleanor Cameron 
[children's fiction]

"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book) 

"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"The Funnies: An American Idiom"
edited by David Manning White
and Robert H. Abel
[non-fiction] 

Books Read In The Past Week

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

 "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 

"No Good In Art" #
story by Miriam Cohen
pictures by Lillian Hoban
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)


"Maggie Adams, Dancer"
(openlibrary.org loan)
Between Dances:
Maggie Adams' Eighteenth Summer"
(physical copy) 
"Stay On Your Toes, Maggie Adams!"
(openlibrary.org loan)
 [YA fiction]
"Cammy Takes a Bow"
[children's fiction]

 by Karen Strickler Dean

"Longer Flight
A Family Grows Up With Books"
by Annis Duff
[nonfiction] 
  
"The Day I Became an Autodidact:
 And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter"
by Kendall Hailey
[autobiography]


 "Smiling Hill Farm" #
by Miriam E. Mason
[children's fiction, historical] 
 
"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"The Funnies: An American Idiom"
edited by David Manning White
and Robert H. Abel
[non-fiction]
   

Books Read In The Past Week

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

 "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 


"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)


"Longer Flight
A Family Grows Up With Books"
by Annis Duff
[nonfiction]

"Chrysanthemum" #
  by Kevin Henkes
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Freckle-Face-Frankel"
by Leota Harris Keir
[children's fiction, Jewish (Conservative) themes]

"Me Me Me Me Me: Not A Novel"
by M. E. Kerr
[YA autobiography] 

 "Son Of Interflux"
by Gordon Korman
[YA fiction]

"grace notes"
"love, annie" 
"just jazz"
by Dandi Daley Mackall
[children's/YA fiction, Christian (Protestant), Blog On! series) ]
(Google Books, replacing copies lost when I moved.)

 "Smiling Hill Farm" #
by Miriam E. Mason
[children's fiction, historical] 

"Mary Ellis, Student Nurse"
by Hope Newell 
[children's/YA fiction, African-Americans]
(openlibrary.org loan)
 
"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   
  

"Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues"
by Ferida Wolff
[children's fiction, Jewish]
 

New Item In Break-Off Collection

I was going through my things.... I love to rummage.... and I came across a lens from a pair
of glasses.   That lens is now in my Break-off Collection.

A Different Kind of Lent

I've decided to observe Lent a bit differently this year.
For one thing, instead of giving up a lot of things, I've narrowed
this year's list down to three items, two of which I've never given up before.

1: Chocolate (that's a given, or should I say a given give-up?)
2: Coffee (that one will NOT be easy; I'll have to have strong tea
in the morning instead.)
3: Peanut butter  (I've been eating quite a bit of it lately.)


So that's my give-up list for this Lent.

Now for my special challenge:
This Lent, I'm going to read the entire Bible from cover to cover.  This will
be in addition to the passages from the Psalms and the Book of Proverbs that
I read every morning, and the short Gospel I read every night.  (If the same passage shows up twice in one day, I will NOT re-read it.)
This won't be easy.  It will mean less time on the computer, and, well, let me
put it this way:  My weekly book lists may be shorter than usual.

Books Read In The Past Week

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


"The Cutters"
by Bess Streeter Aldrich
[fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 


"Unpredictable"
by Tess Kindig
(openlibrary.org loan) 
"Fun E - Farm"
by Heather Wiseman
(physical copy) 
( todays.girls.com series, created by Terry K. Brown)
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant, denomination or denominations not specified)]  
Some, but not all, of the books in this series were lost when I moved, so thank God for free online books!


"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)

"Bequest of Wings
A Family's Pleasures With Books"
by Annis Duff
[nonfiction]


"Freckle-Face-Frankel"
by Leota Harris Keir
[children's fiction, Jewish (Conservative) themes]


"A New Home For Lily" #
"A Big Year For Lily" #
"A Surprise For Lily" #
by Mary Ann Kinsinger
and Suzanne Woods Fisher
[children's fiction, Amish, Adventures
of Lily Lapp series]

"grace notes"
by Dandi Daley Mackall
[children's/YA fiction, Christian (Protestant), Blog On! series)
(Google Book, replacing copy lost when I moved.)

"A Cap For Mary Ellis"
by Hope Newell 
[children's/YA fiction, African-Americans]

"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"A Dog on Barkham Street"
by Mary Stolz
[children's fiction] 

"The Shimmershine Queens"
by Camille Yarbrough
[children's fiction, African-Americans]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Queen of Bais Yaakov"
The Story of Dr. Judith Grunfeld
by Miriam Zakon 
[biography, Jewish]