Spoken like a true Texan...
OK, girls, one of my favorite summertime activities is just curling up with a GOOD book. I prefer fiction to nonfiction (I find that since graduating from seminary, my brain can't handle too much smarty-pants type info), but I will attempt nonfiction if it comes highly recommended. So, any recommendations?
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Hey, Shan! I recently finished two classics: My Antonia and The Good Earth. I would recommend both if you haven't already read them. (Either I wasn't required to or simply didn't read them in high school.) One of my fave authors is Lisa See--her books reveal a lot about Chinese culture, which I think is so fascinating. My favorite of hers is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. I loved it. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd was pretty good. I'll take suggestions, too!
Hey! I joined a book club at PCPC for this month (our leader is Christy Lafferty- did you know her at DTS?) Anyway, we are reading The Mother at Home by John S.C. Abbott. Sorry, it's not fiction, but I am 3 chapters in & really loving it. It's an easy read, even though it was written in 1833 :) It's really interesting. But, I am hoping to read some fiction next, so I'll keep checking to see what everyone else posts!
Hey Lauren! Miss you girl.
Well, I LOVE fiction books-they have made my mind very lazy.
White Chocolates by Lori Wick is a fun sweet read but The Princess by Lori Wick is the best.. If you like series- Karen Kingbury's Resurrection Series is really good. And I am sure your Baptist(Is that where you are still going?) church library has it.
I just finished reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown...I think he must have been wounded by a priest or nun...but his books are hard to put down. I also heard The Kite Runner was good (but haven't read it yet - really want to soon, though!).
I read 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper yesterday..it's facinating and believable..I usually stay away from the near-death -experience type stories but this one's good.
Well, we just got back from MT and amidst keeping the kids out of the construction zone of my inlaws home being built, the lake that the house sits very close to and the 3000 sq ft 'garage' they live in, along with the 3 ATV's, 2 snow mobiles and various antique cars, I read FIVE of the seven books I took on vacation.
What were they? Well, I haven't read nearly as much as I did pre-kids, so I have been out-of-the-loop literature-wise. However, I went to the library and got several selections that I normally wouldn't have read in the past, such as a series by Robin Jones Gunn, some are titled "Clouds" or "Waterfalls" etc. I read one a day, I think in MT. I was pleasantly surprised, they were light (just what I needed) and actually quiet thought provoking for me at this season of life, even though they are fiction, etc. As well, I picked up Karen Kingsbury's "Divine" again, read that in a day, couldn't put it down. First one of her books I have ever read.
Yesterday, I picked up just about the entire series of Sista Chicks again, by Robin Jones Gunn. Will see if I can 'get into them'.
I have several homeschooling books I am reading at the moment as we are approaching the time to make a decision about schooling our kids, etc. So we are each doing research, etc.
I am reading a British novel called "Off Balance" not something I would 'normally' pick up, but got it at a thrift store, had a character from South Africa in it. As we had just returned from there, I was all 'SA crazy'.
I am reading "Woman of Influence" by Pam Farrell LOVE IT
And just finished and Elizabeth George book too, "Time Management for Busy Women"
Along with a Kay Arthur book about marriage, can't remember the title as it is in the other room.
I hadn't realized how the quality of Christian fiction has gone up since I ventured into that arena almost a decade ago and wasn't too terribly impressed. Good things happening there nowadays.
I still like Mary Higgins Clark or her daughter from time to time, but they are getting 'out there' and have something 'new age-ish' in their books. I can get passed it, but again, limited reading time has caused me to be even more selective in what I choose to read, not that it has to be by a "Christian" author, but has to be worth me spending my time to read.
I hope you find some things to read that you enjoy.
Also, I hope you had a great vacation. Will have to check and see if you posted about it.
Take care Shannon!!!
Jada
You girls ROCK! I've got a great start here. THANK YOU!
Fun question. I'm currently reading
1) The recent novel After This by Alice McDermott--highly recommend it (and almost anything else by McDermott, by the way) and you should buy it right now from Amazon because the hardcover is shockingly on sale for $4.80.
2) The recent apologetic Simply Christian by NT Wright. Fabulous book that some college-ish-aged girls are discussing together in my living room this summer. I'm really enjoying it and highly recommend it so far, but apparently your post-seminary brain won't currently support it :)
3) The poetry collection You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages by Robert Frost. Micah (and Noel) got me this for Mother's Day and it is absolutely super fun: poems meant to read aloud, a great collection that I'm sad to have not known about for so long. Please get this and read it to your girls.
4) The epic-starting Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkein. Micah just finished his second straight go through the trilogy and can't handle my not having read it any longer, so I'm going slowly through it.
5) The not-really sci-fi Perelandra by CS Lewis. I'm currently re-reading this second volume of Lewis' Space Trilogy in view of a paper I'm supposed to present this fall, and boy am I loving this novel even more.
Read all these, please.
Good to hear from Mezzogirl that Christian fiction has gotten better! Any specific recommendations?
I need to read me some Alice McDermott apparently. Jen, where to start with her?
Oops, just posted under Muffin but it's Lauren. That's a nickname bestowed upon me by my dear friend Cherish, but will gladly answer to it from anyone :)
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