The tally:
5 fiction
1 biography
3 theology/Christian life
6 nonfiction (mostly education/parenting related)
15 total
This year I also did a lot of reference reading in garden books and commentaries on Luke and Acts (part of a Bible study).
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Phantastes (George MacDonald)
The Hurried Child (David Elkind)
Desperate (Sarah Mae & Sally Clarkson)
Lillian’s Story (Lillian Kristensen & Jessie Chapin)
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (Anthony Esolen)
Casti Connubii: Encyclical on Christian Marriage (Pope Pius XI)
Boys Adrift (Leonard Sax)
The Well-Trained Mind (Susan Wise-Bauer & Jessie Wise)
The Kalahari Typewriter School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Wanderings of Odysseus (Rosemary Sutcliff)
Why Gender Matters (Leonard Sax)
The Well-Educated Mind (Susan Wise Bauer)
The Ministry of Motherhood (Sally Clarkson)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
In progress: Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Most influential: Les Miserables, though I haven’t finished it yet! (Around 700 pages in.) This for a combination of style, story and substance – it’s a classic for a reason. It’s fiction, it’s history, but also theology. The life of the Bishop of Digne alone is a weighty challenge to embody Christ’s love in the world.
On the wish list for this year…
Jane Austen – either Emma or Northanger Abbey
More fiction! Any suggestions?
~lg
