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butterbobbin

December's List and Bookie Awards!

Dec 31, 2011 21:49

50. The Barber Who Wanted to Pray, RC Sproul. 40pp
This was really sweet. The pictures border on being a little too cartoony for my usual taste but I still like them: very detailed, very rich colours. I like that this is a true story and that it has such a positive lesson, making a richer prayer life something to be grasped. It even got me thinking ( Read more... )

2011: a book odyssey

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nuranar January 3 2012, 22:32:23 UTC

Off topic, but I got your package! Yay! It's SO pretty. It looks lovely on one of the end tables in the den. Thank you!

polargriff January 7 2012, 21:45:29 UTC

2012 will be the year I get back into regular reading habits! It has been way too long (three years now). I think I will keep a reading list to help track my endeavors. That would be nice motivation! =)

mattiescottage May 19 2012, 02:33:02 UTC

Wow! I really enjoyed your book list. I don't know how I managed to let Johanna Spyri's other works escape my attention; I now have some on my summer reading wish list!

So glad you enjoyed the James Herriot works. Maybe I should revisit them myself. It has been a long time.

I hope you don't mind me adding you to my friends list so that I can keep up with other reading suggestions you have in the future. (Your mix of fiction and nonfiction is much closer to my interests than the mostly-contemporary selections that most of my LJ friends read.) Don't feel obligated to friend me back. I know you keep personal things for a personal audience, and that's quite appropriate.

(I would have sent this in a private message, but your private message button appears disabled for me.)

butterbobbin May 19 2012, 03:38:50 UTC

I also really like "Vinzi" by Spyri. I've only read it once, as a teenager, but I did find a copy not too long ago and it's my hope to revisit it soon.

I don't mind at all that you added me! I've considered adding you myself a few times but often I'm a bit shy of adding people lest they feel obligated :-) I always enjoy reading your comments on posts by some of our mutual friends.

I've only read 7 books so far this year... so my next book list wlil probably be in June, and I hope I'll have more to show by then! I've been so exhausted from being pregnant that by the time I have spare time my brain is too much mush to attempt much reading.

mattiescottage May 19 2012, 16:59:08 UTC

Well, shucks. Vinzi, for some strange reason, is not among the public-domain collections of Project Guteberg, Projekt Gutenberg-DE (Germany's collection), or Archive.org. Very strange, particularly since it was printed by the well-known Lippencott. I wonder if it perhaps went by another name? I can order it used, though. I don't have much time to sit and read. I may go with what I can convert to audio or get on Librivox for now.

BTW, I friended you on Ravelry--same username. I don't have any projects posted there yet, as I usually have pathetically little time for knitting and crocheting--usually only when I go visiting family and can do it while sitting and talking there. Sometimes in the winter I will make time as a stress-relieving activity, seated by the woodstove. (Ahhhh!)

Edit: Removed comment in case it had private info. You'll see it in your E-mail I think.

butterbobbin May 20 2012, 00:44:50 UTC

:-) I just checked my copy and there doesn't appear to be a subtitle/alternate title, at least in this particular one.

I haven't been on Ravelry in a long time myself (largely because all my yarn is in storage!!) I do have a half-finished scarf here I could be working on if I'd just apply myself but it hasn't happened (and it's summer, and scarves are not forefront on my list at the moment...)

We think she's pretty precious too. ;-) My husband chose her name. I was pleased with it.