Winter Reading Challenge
Reading has been a long time hobby of mine. In fact, I can't really remember not reading. Last year, I signed up for the Spring Reading Thing and I did read a few books that were on my list. I hoped to do better on the Summer Reading Challenge but life got in the way. I began a couple of books but did not finish them. I did not even try the fall challenge. This was probably the first Christmas that I did not have a single book on my list. My existing stack at home was neglected and dusty.
Well, what better time is there than January to start again? Trish, from A Joyful Heart, is hosting the 2008 Winter Reading Challenge and is giving away a $25 Amazon gift certificate for extra motivation. My list is brief but I fear that if I make it too long, I won't accomplish anything. So here is what I hope to be reading during the next 8 weeks:
- The Power of Crying Out by Bill Gothard (Currently reading)
- Answers to Prayer by George Mueller
- Where the Willows Grow by Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Truth Seeker by Dee Henderson (I think I started this one during the summer challenge.)
- Boy by Roald Dahl (Currently reading aloud)
- When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy (Currently being read aloud by my husband to the family)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Possible read aloud)
posted by KarenW at
2:59 PM
6 Comments:
Karen,
We have very similar reading tastes! You can see my list here:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/MamaBugs/456221
I just finished Going Solo by R. Dahl and enjoyed it immensely! I should add Boy to my list! I read it in a matter of hours because it was riveting. I even think my non-reader dh would enjoy it. I should have done it as a read-aloud! Oh! Maybe I will have dd read it aloud when she gets to it in her assignments.
Hi Karen, thanks for stopping by! I should have pared my list down.. oh well, at least I have a good start :)
blessings
Denise
aka /curiouscat & /heartnsoul on HSB.
I keep my reading list on the side of my blog.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of my all time favorite books. It is the only book that I have ever read that made me cry - and I read a lot.
We read Uncle Toms Cabin last year and it really impacted us. Do you know that Abraham Lincoln referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as the "little woman that started a big war." That book really made people understand the atrocities of slavery.
Right now we are reading, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. That is another book that impacted a generation. President Roosevelt read this book and that lead to the Clean Food and Drug Act.
Sorry for the ramble, you have a great list there!! :0)
Your list looks great - you have a few titles that I would like to read. I'm enjoying seeing other's lists!
Andrea
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/andijeane/466498/
Great list, Karen ~ thanks for participating in the Winter Reading Challenge!
Blessings,
Trish
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