Books I'm Currently Reading

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Book(s) started today are marked with a *
Books are listed by author (or series creator)

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"

by Marci Alborghetti

daily devotional reading for 2017

I liked the book I used last year better

"Casebook of Successful Ideas for Advertising and Selling"
by Samm Sinclair Baker
[nonfiction]
this has been a favorite book of
mine for years.  I love the anecdotes

"A Circle Of Quiet
The Crosswicks Journals, Volume 1 " *
by Madeleine L'Engle
[autobiography]
(Kindle book, Complete 4-Volume Set]

"The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ" #

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

[Catholic spirituality]

(Kindle book]

"The Sugar and Spike Archives Volume 1" *
by Sheldon Mayer
[comic book compilation, issues 1-10]

"Anne of Ingleside"
by L. M. Montgomery
[fiction, historical, 1899-1906, according to this website]

"The Book of Catholic Jokes" 

by Fr. Gregory Sakowicz and Deacon Tom Sheridan
[nonfiction, humor (obviously!)]
one or two pages a night

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" *
by William Shakespeare
[play, comedy, classic]

"Proverbs"

by Solomon

[current Bible book]

"People Speak 5:
People Talk About Themselves" #
edited by Chaim Walder
translated into English by Aviva Rappaport
[true stories, Judaica]
(Kindle book)

Also:

Daily readings in the Liturgy of the Hours
Nightly bedtime Gospel reading

 I choose a favorite passage every night

Decisions About My Reading

I've made a few decisions about my reading. 

I plan to read:

More classics (and yes, that includes classics written

for children)

More plays (many plays are also classics)

More comic books (which might include Classics Illustrated,

which I consider excellent introductions to the original works)

Books I'm Currently Reading

This replaces, and will be published more frequently than, my
list of "Books Read In The Past Week," and will include short
story collections, (fiction and nonfiction) joke collections, and
other books not previously listed.

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator)

Any book(s) started today will be marked with a *

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"

by Marci Alborghetti

daily devotional reading for 2017

I liked the book I used last year better

"Casebook of Successful Ideas for Advertising and Selling"
by Samm Sinclair Baker
[nonfiction]
this has been a favorite book of
mine for years.  I love the anecdotes

"The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ" #

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

[Catholic spirituality]

(Kindle book]

"Anne of Ingleside" *
by L. M. Montgomery
[fiction, historical, 1899-1906, according to this website]

"The Book of Catholic Jokes" 

by Fr. Gregory Sakowicz and Deacon Tom Sheridan
[nonfiction, humor (obviously!)]
one or two pages a night

"Proverbs"

by Solomon

[current Bible book]

"People Speak 5:
People Talk About Themselves" # *
edited by Chaim Walder
translated into English by Aviva Rappaport
[true stories, Judaica]
(free Kindle unlimited book)

Also:

Daily readings in the Liturgy of the Hours
Nightly bedtime Gospel reading

 I choose a favorite passage every night

Finished today:

"Farmer Boy"

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Books I'm Currently Reading

This replaces, and will be published more frequently than, my
list of "Books Read In The Past Week," and will include short
story collections, (fiction and nonfiction) joke collections, and
other books not previously listed.

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Book(s) started today are marked with a *
Books are listed by author (or series creator)

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"

by Marci Alborghetti

daily devotional reading for 2017

I liked the book I used last year better

"Casebook of Successful Ideas for Advertising and Selling"
by Samm Sinclair Baker
[nonfiction]
this has been a favorite book of
mine for years.  I love the anecdotes

"The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ" #

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

[Catholic spirituality]

(Kindle book]

"The Book of Catholic Jokes" 

by Fr. Gregory Sakowicz and Deacon Tom Sheridan
[nonfiction, humor (obviously!)]
one or two pages a night

"Proverbs"

by Solomon

[current Bible book]

"People Speak 5:
People Talk About Themselves" # *
edited by Chaim Walder
translated into English by Aviva Rappaport
[true stories, Judaica]
(Kindle book)

"Farmer Boy"

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

[children's fiction, historical, 1860s]

(I'm reading the books in chronological order of events)

Also:

Daily readings in the Liturgy of the Hours
Nightly bedtime Gospel reading

 I choose a favorite passage every night

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.

"My Daily Spiritual Companion"

by Marci Alborghetti

daily devotional reading for 2017

I liked the book I used last year better

"Mama's Way"
[nonfiction, Protestant]
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn

"The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern"

by Eleanor Cameron  
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
I have never yet read the Julia Redfern series
without wanting to THROTTLE Aunt  Alex

"Up and Down the River"
by Rebecca Caudill
[children's fiction, historical, 1870s]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"The Saturdays"
(physical copy)
"The Four-Story Mistake"
(openlibrary.org loan)
by Elizabeth Enright
[children's fiction]

"The Small Rain"
by Madeleine L'Engle
[fiction]

"The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ" #

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

[Catholic spirituality]

(Kindle book)

"Anne's House Of Dreams"

by L. M. Montgomery

[fiction, historical, 1890s]

"All The Time You Need, The Greatest Gift In The World"

by Robert R. Updegraff
[nonfiction]
(The author also wrote "Try
Giving Yourself Away" under
the pen-name David Dunn. )
This book has some good advice, and interesting anecdotes.

This Week's Fan Fiction

Chapters were added to the following fics:

23rd Precinct

An ongoing continuation of Another World.

To go directly to the latest chapter, click here.

Chloe, My Love
An AU Bonanza fic
To go directly to the latest chapter, click here.

I Know It Was Just A TV Show, But....!

I was fifteen years old when the Bewitched episode, "I Don't Want To Be A Toad, I Want To Be A Butterfly," aired for the first time.

Remember that episode?   Tabitha goes to nursery school, and during a forest game, Mrs. Burch, the teacher, tells a girl named Amy that she will be the toad.
Amy wants to be the butterfly, but the teacher says that anyone who spills her juice at snack time can't be the butterfly.  Amy must be the toad.

Really?  A little kid has an accident that could just as easily happen to an adult, and this teacher shames her for it?

I thought back then that if I were the teacher, Amy would have been the butterfly, just to make her feel better about spilling her juice.  I still feel the same way.  Amy didn't just want to be the butterfly; she needed to be the butterfly.

Yes, it was just a tv show, but there really are teachers like that Mrs. Burch.

Teachers who have no business working with little kids.