I am hoping to keep better track of what I read in 2019. I need to write down the title of the book I read after I finish reading it. My sister got me a book journal a few years ago but I ended up using it for read-alouds with the kids. Anyway, for the last couple of days I have been trying to remember all of the books I read this year and writing them down so that I can recommend any that I really enjoyed. I think that I read 28 books in 2018. I won't list all of them here. Eight of those books were read aloud to the kids for homeschooling or fun, and a couple of those were read more than once because I needed to read it first to myself before reading aloud to the kids and I'm not counting short books read to Hulk or Bug. Fourteen of the total were fiction, and six of those fourteen were purely entertainment, the other fiction books were classics or for spiritual or cultural education of myself. The rest of the fourteen books were non-fiction. So here are my favorites and what I most recommend! 1. The Bible! (many authors, divinely directed by God) Duh, right?! But this year I read the Bible chronologically and I really benefitted from it and enjoyed it immensely! I will be doing the same 2019 but I may take longer than the one year plan because I hope to make a closer study and highlight common problems we face color coded to make it easier to reference. 2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott I read this one aloud to the kids but it was my first time reading it too. A great classic and me and the girls really like it. I know that it is one that they will read a few more times over the years and understand more of it each time they read it! 3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I read this book for the fourth time this year. It may be my all time favorite book. That is all. 4. Spiritual Depression by Martyn Lloyd Jones We read this (most of it) with our small group this year. Robert has read it a few times, this was my first time. This book is so foundational for believers. I could go on and on but I will just say that it is entirely practical for daily walking out this hard life! AND it is written from a sermon series so you can listen to the chapters as sermons or read it! 5. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling I read this aloud to the three littlest kiddos this year. The first time I read it in 2015 to the three oldest. Kipling's use of words is art. These are simple, short, imaginative, funny origin stories that are perfect for challenging and entertaining younger children but mama or daddy will love them too! My fifteen year old would want to pause her Biology school work to listen in! I look forward to reading them again! 6. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Unbelievable! I don't know how this story hasn't been made into a movie. Which they would ruin but it would still get the book more attention! It is amazing. In the last couple of years I have gotten really into reading slave narratives. These books(pamphlets, at the time) were first written during our country's abolition movement in an effort for the truth about slavery, from the mouth's of slaves themselves, to be heard by white people(mainly in the north) who had only been lied to by southern slave owners. I read Freddrick Douglass's this year also. Douglass is really smart and I recommend his narrative too. Honestly, I gotta stop because I will type for too long just on these. I read Douglass's narrative aloud to the kids and Harriet Jacob's will be required reading for them in high school as long as I'm homeschooling. But even if we send them to traditional school, I will make them read it to supplement their history education. I'm gonna stop there for fear that I really will list all of the books! : ) Happy New Year!
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