I’m sort of in denial or rather amazement that 2018 is over. When I started looking over what I had read last year and the goals I had set for myself, I realized they were a little lofty. I actually didn’t do such a bad job with my main list, but when I looked back I thought my list wasn’t all that realistic and intentional. It was more a list of stuff I either had to read or hoped to read.
This year I want to be more intentional. It’s going to be a different year I think, where I am stepping back from some commitments I’ve had the past few years and I’m hopeful that it will open up space to cultivate some different habits that I’ve been hoping to build up. I’m pondering working through a few of the different reading challenges that I’ve seen in my blogo’sphere but I’m still not sure I’m ready to fully dive into those yet.
So here’s to reading in 2019 – reading with intention and some fun too…
For my Book Club:
- January: Eothan (Kingslake)
- February: Blind Justice (Alexander)
- March: Ghost Map (Johnson) this is a re-read for me
- April: Humble Roots (Anderson) another re-read
- May: Fidelity (Berry)
- June: Persuasion (Austen)
- July: Becoming Mrs. Lewis (Callahan)
- August: Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
- September: Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy)
- October: selections from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- November: Code of the Woosters (Wodehouse)
- December: Silent Night (Weinbraub)
My Personal List: Fiction
- The Alchemist (Coelho)
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Morris)
- Odd and the Frost Giants (Gaiman)
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane (this is a re-read) (Gaiman)
- Little Men (Alcott)
- Anna Karenina (a re-read, but I read it in high school, therefore I remember little)
- That Distant Land (Berry)
- The Great Gatsby
- Everything that Rises Must Converge (O’Conner)
- The Great Alone (Hannah)
- The Chosen (Potok)
My Personal List: Non-Fiction
- The Curve of Time (Blanchet)
- A Year in Provence (Mayle)
- Circle of Quiet (L’Engle)
- The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard)
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings (Zaleski)
- First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
My Personal List: Personal and Spiritual Growth
- Ourselves (Mason)
- On the Shoulders of Hobbits
- You Learn by Living (E. Roosevelt)
- Tending the Heart of Virtue
- Beate Not the Poore Desk
- The Lifegiving Table (Clark)
- In the Name of Jesus and/or Love, Henri (Nouwen)
- None Like Him (Wilken)
On a side note, these quilt photos are actually nabbed off the internet and aren’t my actual creations; but they are posted here as a visual reminder of two quilts I actually hope to make this year that are very bookish.