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Here are the books that I will be reading in 2015! They are all books in my house (gifted, bought, loaned) that I have not read or never finished reading. Each title will receive a one to five heart rating when I finish it, one being the worst and five being the best! Comments will be written after the title.
1. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays ~ Thoreau
2. The Turn of the Screw ~ James
3. The Four Loves ~ C.S. Lewis
4. Candide ~ Voltaire
5. The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up ~ Susan Orlean
6. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work ~ John Gottman
7. Gilead ~ Marilynne Robinson
8. Culture Making ~ Crouch
9. The Arabian Nights
10. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
11. Flower Fables ~ Louisa May Alcott
12. Ella Minnow Pea ~ Mark Dunn
13. My Bondage and My Freedom ~ Frederick Douglass
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
15. Middlemarch (two volumes) ~ Eliot
16. O Pioneers! ~ Willa Cather
17. Forever Music ~ Edith Schaeffer
18. Questioning Evangelism ~ Newman
19. Narcissus and Goldmund ~ Hermann Hesse
20. Silent Spring ~ Rachel Carson
21. Effortless Mastery ~ Kenny Werner
22. 1-2-3 Magic, Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
23. Jayber Crow ~ Wendell Berry
24. The Goldfinch ~ Donna Tartt
25. Only You Can Save Mankind ~ Terry Pratchett
26. The Magician's Book: a Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia ~ Laura Miller
27. L'Abri ~ Edith Schaeffer
28. The Stories: A Journey through Time ~ with W.C. Light
29. Pudd'nhead Wilson ~ Mark Twain
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Here are the books I have read during 2014. Each title will have a one to five heart rating, one being the worst and five being the best! Books with an asterisk are old friends that I love to re-read.
~ Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization, by Stuart Isacoff ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Free-Range Knitter, by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Home Schooling: the Right Choice! by Christopher Klicka ♥ ♥
~ The Heart of Home Schooling: Teaching and Living What Really Matters, by Christopher Klicka ♥ ♥
~ *The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, by Padriac Colum ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Those Terrible Middle Ages! (Debunking the Myths), by Regine Pernoud ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Everything But Money, by Sam Levenson ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Dancing Shoes/Theater Shoes/Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Persuasion, by Jane Austin ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamott ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Unexpected Magic, Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Open Classroom, Herbert Kohl ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Art for God's Sake, Philip Graham Ryken ♥ ♥ ♥
~ A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L'Engle ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Music Lesson, Victor Wooten ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *How Children Fail, John Holt ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Apple That Astonished Paris, Billy Collins ♥ ♥ ♥
~ A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver ♥ ♥
~ Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Madeleine L'Engle ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Thursday's Child, Noel Streatfeild ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, Trenton Lee Stewart ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, Trenton Lee Stewart ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Cart and Cwidder (Dalemark Quartet, 1), Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Drowned Ammet (Dalemark Quartet, 2), Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *The Spellcoats (Dalemark Quartet, 3), Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *The Crown of Dalemark (Dalemark Quartet, 4), Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Incredulity of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
~ *Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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