Anne of Green Gables, etc ~ books 10-12

 

This month we decided to work off our Fun List and go see a play!  Springhouse Theatre (one of my favorite places to go!) is performing Anne of Green Gables, so we decided to read that book this month.  We are going to see the play on this coming Sunday.  

As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match.  If only she can convince them to let her stay, she'll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind.  Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables. (picture and description from Amazon)

Also up on the reading list is James and 1 Peter from PHSRBT (see this post).

Book Count: 12/55

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Melissa

a little Salty to cut the Sweet, etc ~ books 6-9

 

So in my quest to read 55 books this year, I decided I should branch out a little and read at least 5 biographies and at least 5 non fiction books as well.  I was ready to read a biography and went to the library wandering the shelves in the 92 section (where biographies are located, in case you wondered!) and finally decided on this one by Sophie Hudson.  I honestly have never read her blog or listened to her podcast, but I know she has rave reviews and she's a funny Christian.  So I went with it.  All in all, it was good, and now I'm a little curious to read her blog at https://www.boomama.net ...

There’s nothing quite like family—for good or bad. But in a world where we sometimes know more about the Kardashians than we do the people sleeping right down the hall, it’s easy to forget that walking through life with our family offers all sorts of joy wrapped up in the seemingly mundane. There’s even a little bit of sacred sitting smack-dab in the middle of the ordinary. And since time’s-a-wastin’, we need to be careful that we don’t take our people—and their stories—for granted. Whether it’s a marathon bacon-frying session, a road trip gone hysterically wrong, or a mother-in-law who makes every trip to the grocery store an adventure, author Sophie Hudson reminds us how important it is to slow down and treasure the day-to-day encounters with the people we love the most. Written in the same witty style as Sophie’s BooMama blog, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet is a cheerful, funny, and tender account of Sophie’s very Southern family. It’s a look into the real lives of real people—and a real, loving God right in the middle of it all.  (picture and description at Amazon)

Also up on the reading list is 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon as I pick up for the 5th time on my Professor Horner system of reading the Bible through ... its completely different and there are things I don't like about it, but I love skipping through the Old Testament and New Testament every day.

Book Count: 9/55

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Melissa