Week in Review ~ Books I'm Reading

Just finished Surviving Off Off-Grid and Tsh's book. Also read Mad Hungry: Feeding Boys last weekend. I think nearly every book I get from the library is from someone's recommendation too. I just put Making Toast on hold.

It's been one of those weeks around here, too. And I didn't even find time to read! I regularly return large stacks of un-read books to the library--right now awaiting my time are: The Herbal Home Remedy Book by Joyce A. Wardwell, The Herbal Medicine Cabinet by Debra St. Claire, and a second time through Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes.

I hear ya! It's been one of THOSE weeks for me as well. An utter disaster. And, somehow, I managed to see the light today. After hiding my head in the sand for four days in a row, I managed to pull myself up by my bootstraps (um, after a seriously huge Starbucks "treat").

I see (from your tweet) that you are reading Fancy Nancy with Brienne. My youngest is a big fan as well. Have you read "A Very, Fairy Princess" by Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma (Hamilton, I think)? It's really good. Geraldine KNOWS she is a fairy princess, even if know one else believes her -- because she can feel it! She says you have to find what lets your sparkle out. I love it. :-)

Here's to a better week!

I'm reading All the Way Home by Ann Tatlock and One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp.

Like you I often have several books going at once. My main read right now is Reading Jackie by William Kuhn. A fascinating look at the work she did as an editor, and how much it said about her, in the years after she was no longer Jack's widow or Ari's wife. I also have Margaret Roach's And I Shall Find Some Peace There in rotation. And finally a short story collection from Elizabeth Berg titled "The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted".

I know it's a stretch, but I hope that things calm down for you next week.

Frankly, I do believe in balance and priorities. It is what keeps me sane.
God, Self, Marriage, Family, Community

As for my book list:

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Unplanned by Abby Johnson

Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider

It must be going around this week. Full moon?

I just started reading My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira. It's the story of a 20 year old midwife during the Civil War who desperately wants to be a doctor. So far I am loving it, and my mother gushed (where I get many of my great books via hand me downs in the mail).

Hang in there and I'm glad to hear you are grabbing those sacred moments with books!

I really recommend "A Gift of an Ordinary Day" - A Mother's Memoir, I read this book a few weeks ago, and made me really appreciate the ordinary moments.

I am also reading "Positive Discipline for Preschoolers" (you're past that point), but highly recommended for anyone with young children around.

Next on my list is "Last Child in the Woods - Nature Deficit Disorder".

I try to read one book at a time, so I can focus more on it's content and keep on that mind track, plus I feel so good when I actually finish it to the end. :o)

I don't believe in balance. I believe in priorities. This really resonates with me. But I went back and read your August post on the subject to make sure I understood what you were saying. Yes. I understood and want to tell you that I think you are a wise and spiritually gifted woman.

I love reading. Especially biographies because I love to read about other people's lives, especially parents and people who lived in 18th-19th century U.S. But unfortunately, reading for me has taken a backseat. I guess there is a time for everything, and it's been a year I bet since I've read anything just for fun (or distraction). So, right now I have only two books I'm working on. Parenting from Your Strengths, by John Trent and The Confessions of Our Faith which is the westminster confession of faith and catechisms. Of course, those don't exactly provide a break for the mind, but they are enlightening. This summer, I have midwifery textbooks to look forward to :0)

I recently finished reading Radical Homemakers. Great book...but more of an intense read than I originally thought. I'm currently in the middle of The Well Educated mind. Another intense book, but I'm taking notes as I go along and that helps.

Thanks for listing your current reads. I've been wanting to read about Bonhoeffer for quite sometime. BTW, I read Making Toast too after hearing a interview with the author on NPR. WOW. I choked up several times during the book.

I have been wanting to read Bonhoeffer for awhile too and Organized Simplicity is also on my list.

I am presently reading God Planted Five Seeds by Jean Dye Johnson, Missional Mom (which I will be running a review/giveaway soon) and Leadership Education among others.

I enjoy seeing what others are reading. Thanks for posting!

Amy

We must have had the same week! I'm feeling lost and worn out but I'm thankful to have your blog to read!

Um, I second (third? fourth?) that - it was a rough week! Can we blame it on the moon? I'm reading the Five Love Languages of Children by Chambers, and just picked up The Elegance of the Hedgehog (gasp! a novel!). Recently read Carrying Water As a Way of Life by Linda Tatelbaum - enjoyed it, nice and simple journal-style read of a homesteader who is still at it thirty years later.

My February often finds me deep into something I would normally consider "trashy" reading - it is purely a way of coping with the lingering end of winter, I think, and I've given up feeling bad about it. I read enough good stuff the rest of the year!

I just finished The Scarlet Pimpernel and really enjoyed that. I saw the latest movie years ago and really enjoyed it. The books storyline was completely different then the movie. It was a fun read.

I'm also reading Little Women and plan on reading Little Men and Eight Cousins. This has been another fun read.

I'm also working my way through A Tale of Two Cities. I'm sure you can see that I'm trying to read some of the classics that I never read when I was younger.

I've been reading so much lately too. Escapism is so important for me around mid-February. I just finished Origins by Annie Murphy Paul and I have a big stack of library books waiting, including Edible Wild Plants by John Kallas, Simple Prosperity by David Wann, and Copeland's cure by Natalie Robins.

I've been reading tons of Ted Dekker novels for fun... one of my personal goals for this year is to have more fun! But I am also awaiting an amazon order of "The Urban Homestead" and "Radical Homemakers". I had wanted to quite buying books this year but can't get either of these through inter-library loan. Oh and I have about five more books on nutrition/education waiting to be picked up at the library. Aaaaah. I'm happy when I have tons to read and think through.

Yeah! You have your "inspiring internet" reads back up.

For a long time I talked about how I needed balance! And I really just couldn't find it! Then I started to think about priorities and seasons and even moods and abilities for that day or week or whatever. I still try to have some sort of balance but it's so nice to know that I don't have to do every little thing all the time. There is a time, place, and a season.

As for books it's nice to see that I'm not the only one who has a handful of books going at once that I kind of rotate through. Right now I'm reading Toxic Relief, The Continuous Atonement, Master Your Metabolism, Cheaper by the Dozen, Energy Medicine for Women, and a whole pile I want to read! ;) I totally understand so many books so little time!!!