Saturday, December 14, 2013

Books Read in the Past Two Weeks

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"St. Francis of Assisi" #
by G. K. Chesterton
{Sunday book} 

"The Imitation of Mary #
In Four Books"
by Alexander De Rouville 
Revised and Edited by Matthew J. O'Connell
[devotional reading, Catholic]
(one chapter a day; more on Sunday)

"Welcome, Stranger"
"Pick a New Dream"
by Lenora Mattingly Weber
[YA fiction]

"Little Grey Gown" #
by Mabel Leigh Hunt
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"The Home Has A Heart"
by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
[non-fiction; Christian (Protestant) themes, recipes, 
anecdotes]
(December chapter only)

"The Chalet School In Exile"
"The Chalet School at War"
{Original title: "The Chalet School Goes To It"}
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
"The Chalet School And Robin"
{fill-in}
by Caroline German
"The Highland Twins at The Chalet School"
"Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School"
by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

(children's fiction, Chalet School series)


"Wallace"
"Mary Erskine"
{carrying over into next week}
by Jacob Abbott
[children's fiction, Franconia series]
(free Google e-book)

"The Cloister Walk"
by Kathleen Norris
(non-fiction, autobiographical, Catholic themes [Protestant author]) 
{Two uses of the "F" word (in quoted conversations,
and NOT in any monastic settings.)}
(I could have done without the "F" word, but this
is still a lovely book.)
{carrying over into next week}


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