What are you reading this month?

**homesteadmamma** · 12-06-2003, 01:03 PM

Or are you finding time to read? No matter the month, I always need to find time to read. Its so just so relaxing and fun.

This month on my reading list is:

Aunt Mary in the Granary by Eileen Comstock
When I Am An Old Woman, I shall Wear Purple
Beneath the Harvest Sky by Tracie Peterson (#2 in a series)
Ruby by Lauraine Snelling (#1 in a series)
These Tangled Threads by Tracie Peterson & Judith Miller (#3 in a series)

I also have 3 small books to finish off by Al Lacy (the end of the civil war series).

I probably won't get all these books read by Christmas, but they are all here from the library until the first part of Jan. so I should get them done by then.

What are you reading this month?

**Katybird** · 12-06-2003, 01:31 PM

I just finished "A Gracious Plenty" by Sherri Reynolds. It is about a woman who was disfigured by a scalding accident when she was 4. She is the caretaker for a cemetary and although the living citizens of her hometown have little to do with her she develops friendships with the deceased that inhabit the cemetary. It is an interesting read.

**Sara Noel** · 12-06-2003, 01:55 PM

I'm re-reading a few.

Simple Abundance-A Daybook of Comfort and Joy-Sarah Ban Breathnach

Simplify Your Life- Elaine St. James
Living The Simple Life-Elaine St. James

Voluntary Simplicity Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich- Duane Elgin

**homesteadmamma** · 12-06-2003, 02:49 PM

Sara, I've read all those books, except the Simple Abundance one.

Each year in January, I re-read anything I can on simple living and inner simplicity. It renews me to continue on my journey and always gives me fresh insight!!

**Sara Noel** · 12-06-2003, 03:30 PM

I like the Simple Abundance one. It's a feel good book and I always feel like I am really doing something for me when I read it.

There are of course parts that you have to take or leave, as there are in many books, but overall I like how I feel when I read it.

**Shell** · 12-06-2003, 05:03 PM

I just finished reading, "The bell jar" by Sylvia Plath and I am almost finished reading, "Flowers for Algernon," by Daniel Keyes. My next book will probably be, "The Double" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

I am very excited. Tonight on the book Channel, they are playing, "A tree grows in Brooklyn," by Betty Smith. I loved that book and wanted to see the movie. We don't have that channel but my g/f is going to record it for me.

**AmyMCGS** · 12-06-2003, 05:09 PM

I'm reading:

"Controlling Your Cholesterol for Dummies"

(for DH)

and

"Confessions of an Organized Homemaker" by Denise Schofield. I thought I had read that one before, but I had read something else with a similar title instead.

I also seem to be reading a cardboard three-page book called "Peppy the Puppy" a lot.

Maria is currently facinated by turning the pages in that one, which is better than when she wants to read my books!

**grneyegrl** · 12-06-2003, 08:07 PM

oh the movie " A tree grows in brookly is wonderful i have seen it many times..

im reading the millionaire next door , its great but i cant remember who wrote it and i got it for a dollar