reading



In progress:
Fiction
  • Death of a Gossip (M.C. Beaton)
Nonfiction
  • The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Eric Metaxas)
  • Keep a Quiet Heart (Elisabeth Elliot)
  • Class Matters (NY Times Correspondents)
Sunshine State Readers - Grade 3-5
  • Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (Lisa Yee)
  • NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (Michael Buckley)
  • Captain Nobody (Dean Pitchford)

Constantly in progress because they are just that good:
  • A Charlotte Mason Companion (Karen Andreola)
  • The Well-Trained Mind (Susan Wise Bauer)
  • Good and Angry: exchanging frustration for character in you and your kids (Scott Turansky & Joanne Miller)
Finished 2012:
Sunshine State Readers - Grade 3-5
  • Out of My Mind (Sharon Draper)
  • Dying to Meet You (Kate Klise)

Finished 2011:
Fiction
  • The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Tiffany Baker)
  • The Quilter's Apprentice (Jennifer Chiaverini)
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Barrows & Schaffer)
  • The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
  • Assorted fluff lit by Mary Kay Andrews: Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies

Nonfiction
  • Creating an Intimate Marriage (Jim Burns)
  • What Your Dr. May Not Tell You About Premenopause (Pretty sure that I'm not Pre-M, but I do have cyclical migraines that I think are related to some of the hormone issues addressed here)

Sunshine State Readers - Grade 3-5
  • The 100-year-old Secret (Tracy Barrett)
  • The Magic Half (Annie Barrows)
  • Extra Credit (Andrew Clements)
  • The Secret of Zoom (Lynne Jonell)
  • Flight of the Phoenix (R. L. LaFevers)
  • Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things