Thank you for all of the recommendations! I’ve updated the list with four more books y’all recommended. Picking was difficult and some others may find their way on the final list this year or next :o)
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Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969
Mandel, Station Eleven
Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saintsarchives:
OOh! Galileo’s Daughter is an excellent book! I remember being moved and quite choked up at several points. Glad you added it to your list…I’m making a list this year too! I think Adrienne would love Galileo’s Daughter, so I’m glad you brought it up. Like Wendell Berry a lot too, and I remember wanting to know more about Hannah Coulter (wasn’t she Thad’s daughter in “Pray Without Ceasing”?)
I haven’t read “Pray Without Ceasing” but this Hannah Coulter is the daughter of Dalton and Callie Steadman, and they aren’t even listed on the overall genealogy chart. I’m still getting to know all the characters as I’ve only read this book plus Fidelity.
Glad to see it made your list! Looks like I’ll be adding some of yours to my list this year… :)
I enjoyed Hannah Coulter last year, although in the last half of the book I started to feel overwhelmed its idealism(?)…..I don’t know if that’s what it was, exactly. Overall I did enjoy it. I tease my husband that just because he reads Wendall Berry, doesn’t mean he knows how to farm.
Can’t wait to read your thoughts on “Walking on Water”!
Well, just added a bunch of books to my wishlist, aka the list of books I want to remember I want to read one day.
I wonder. . . Planning out the books you want to read in 2006–is it the teacher in you? I read sooo randomly. I could do with a little more planning. But usually I just wander around the bookshelves until I see something that catches my eye. Or, I go look something up and then end up reading the whole book. I can’t imagine planning a years’ worth of reading.
I don’t really plan what I want to read that thoroughly, there’s a bunch of things I know I want to read right now that I don’t want to forget about *shrug* I think in my previous life I had more time to read and hence didn’t get so “backlogged.” I only picked 15 books to leave about the same # of “open slots” for random books I hear about this year. I never browse bookshelves, though — I do all of my library reservations online and run in — it’s just too hard with little kids!
i’ve gotten really fascinated hearing about “sophie’s world!” As my stephen lawhead book is boring me right now, i think i’m going to read it next!! thanks, all you guys, for suggesting great books!!
I really have to say Redeeming Love was a waste of time. Rivers tries to emphasize the purity of the relationship but most of the internal dialogue of the main male character is about sex.
I was dissapointed.