48

Visit to the Home Place

47

The De-Valuing of America

46

10 Things Your Minister Wants To Tell You

I agreed with a lot of what he said theologically, so an easy, quick, head-nodding read. 

45

Co. Aytch

A must-read for any student of the Civil War!  Memoirs of a Confederate private - he tells of what he knew, not the history of the battles, but what he saw from his position in the trenches.

43 and 44

And God Was Watching

Local fellow, so very interesting.  I know people in this book, although I've never met the author.  My sister's sister-in-law is mentioned.  :)  Very upbeat, positive look at his life.

Beyond the River

Oh, my, I hardly know what to say about this book.  I had to keep putting it down to catch my breath.  I had no idea - beyond what I knew of John Brown and Harriet Tubman - what all went on during the time of the Underground Railroad and abolition.  Amazing stories, astonishing history.  Could people really have been so blind?  And have we really not progressed any at all in the past 150 years?

42

To Teach To Love by Jesse Stuart

2016 Reading Challenge Link

So there is this 2016 reading challenge.  It looks fun and interesting, so I'm planning on attempting to work along on it next year.

Which reminds me - I need to go ahead and start the new Finished in 2016 blog! :D

41

Old Time Punishments

I would consider this book a must for anyone writing historical fiction.  Fascinating!

40

Beyond BeliefInsanity!  To believe in the writings of a science-fiction author as anything except, well, science-fiction is absurd.  And to exploit those who believe is inexcusable.

39

Jesus Land

I cried for David nearly all the way through this book.  Bless his heart, his life should have been so very different. :(

38

At Mother's Request

Most dysfunctional family award! ;)

37

Not in Front of the Servants

Interesting; written from an English point-of-view; which makes sense since America had slaves for so long.

The writing is a little difficult to follow at times, he switches subjects suddenly, but it's readable.

36

Zits Unzipped

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Problem Identified

West From Home

Short little book of letters Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote to Almanzo while she was at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.  She worries about his health, how their dog is, and their chickens.  :)  She tells him Rose is helping her with her writing, but even in these letters there is still the flavor you get in the Little House books, written years later, which has to be authentically her own.

33

Say What

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Flawed by Design

Quick and easy read; I liked what he has to say, too. 

31

I have no idea where I bought this one, but I would recommend it to anyone.

Same Kind of Different As Me

30

A Thousand Shall Fall

This is one of the best WW2 books I've read!  Amazing stories of God's providence for the family.  "Of the original company of 1,200 Pioneers, only seven survived; only three of those were not wounded..."

29, Second Novel for the Year!

The Color Purple

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

28

As she says at the end of the book, "Mine is only another story."  An interesting story, I have never read another WW2 story similar.No Pretty Pictures

27

Miss Hargreaves

26

I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag by Jennifer Gilbert

25

Always Looking Up Michael J Fox

I enjoyed his first book, so I thought I'd read this one, too, and I enjoyed it, too.  http://www.amazon.com/Always-Looking-Up-Adventures-Incurable/dp/1401310168/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435975741&sr=1-1&keywords=always+looking+up

24

Pox Americana

Sometimes there's a book so fascinating you stop reading all the other books and just read this one.  I like those books.  ;)  Pox Americana was one such book.  Really, really interesting! 

23

One Month to Live

BEST Marriage Book!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere "on the spectrum".  That is, Asperger syndrome, or a cousin.  My mother never had me tested, because people didn't back then.  But she suspected, as do I.  On unofficial internet tests I rate pretty high. 

Perhaps because of that, perhaps because I saw a lot of my husband's quirks in David Finch's descriptions of himself this was the best marriage book I've ever read.  I'm not sure I've ever read another one, but that's irrelevant.

The Journal of Best Practices

21

An American Plague

Twenty

Reality Check

Evil Wives - 19

Evil Wives . Should be called "What not to do if you want to kill someone"  LOL

Three More Comics: Eighteen Books

It Must Be Nice to be Little 

The Last Straw

Keep the Home Fries Burning

Fifteen

Seven Years of Highly Defective People
In which Scott Adams tells what was going through his head while he was drawing the comics.

I wish they were all like this!

Fourteen

Eight Yards, Down and Out

Thirteen

When did Ignorance Become a Point of View?

Twelve

The Return of the Lone Iguana

Eleven

All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg. 

I bought this on the recommendation of my mother.  It was good, good enough through the beginning got better through the middle.


I really liked the ending.

Books Eight, Nine, and Ten

I forgot to blog one, just remembered when I looked back to see what number I was on!

And I can't believe I forgot this one: Runaway Radical , by Jonathan and Amy Hollingsworth. 

 My ninth book this year was a new one from the used  book sale: So Dear To My Heart by Jane Goyer

And tenth was also a new one from the used book sale - a nice bathtub read. :)  May the Force be With Us, Please

The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers by Mike McIntyre


Pretty good book.  Renews your faith in humanity - at least the humanity in the Midwest. 

Let Justice Roll Down

Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins is still relevant forty years after it was written - which doesn't say a lot for us as a country.  The same rights he was fighting for in the late Sixties and early Seventies (and after, I'm sure, I'm just talking about this book) still haven't been achieved.  EVERYBODY should read this book and see if they can't manage to finally treat each other as human beings.

ANOTHER Book Finished! I Am Quite Enjoying Being Snowed In!

Snickers From the Front Pew


Funny stories of family life as a PK. 

Still Snowed in - Fourth Book for 2015

If I am Missing or Dead

Domestic violence and murder, one sister thinking out loud about why she and her sister allowed the men in their lives to treat them like crap, ultimately ending with the death of the younger sister.

Second and Third Books Finished

Being snowed in has its advantages...like finishing some more books. :)

First, easy and fun: It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone

 

 

Then, the horrifying: Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Imagine the worst thing you can, this book is a million times worse. 

First Book Finished - and in February, No Less!

I can't believe it took me this long to finish a book this year!  I'm reading 7 or so - as usual, that's why it's so difficult to actually finish one, because I'm reading so many.

So for my first book finished this year, this is it.  The Unusual Suspect, by Stephen Baldwin  He's honest and straightforward, lays it on the line.  Interesting in the beginning and drew me in, I got a little bogged down in the middle (I seem to do that a lot, though) and finished on a high note.  I would recommend it, though.