What’s on My Nightstand?

We have returned! I have tons of photos and stories to share but it will be awhile before everything gets written and the photos are edited.

Note – this was supposed to be published while we were in Portland but Blogger was not cooperating. I tried to publish it several times but wasn’t having any luck. So, I’m going to post it now! Better late than never.

I’ve read quite a lot this month, though a good portion of it is children’s classics. My husband and I are in Portland this entire week so I probably won’t get much more reading done this month!

COMPLETED (links are to my full reviews)

Children’s literature

• Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace – 4 stars. Very cute story.

• Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace – 4 stars. Cute but not quite as good as the original. Would make a good read aloud for young girls.

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry – 4 stars. Another excellent book that somehow escaped my reading list as a child.

• The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas: An Austin Family Story by Madeleine L’Engle – 3.5 stars. Great story. Put me in the mood for Christmas!

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – 2 stars. Loved it as a kid but now have reservations about some of the spiritual aspects of the book.

Classics

• Lady Susan by Jane Austen – 3 stars. Not as good as some of her other books.

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson – 3 stars. I would have hated this book as assigned high school reading.

Christian Fiction

• Scared: A Novel on the Edge of the World by Tom Davis – 4 stars. Heart wrenching story. Highly recommend.

• The Yada Yada Prayer Group
  by Neta Jackson – 3 stars. Just ok. Won’t be continuing the series.

• The Choice (Lancaster County Secrets, #1) by Suzanne Woods Fisher – 3 stars.

• Crossing Oceans by Gina Holmes – 4 stars. Not your typical Christian fiction. It hurt to read this book but it was touching!

Memoir

• The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister – 3 stars. Not as good as I had hoped. Great story but the formatting of the story/book made it extremely difficult to read.

Nonfiction

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Decluttering by Regina Leeds – 3 stars. Motivational but a walking advertisement for The Container Store.

Secular Fiction

• Spinning Forward by Terri DuLong – 2 stars. Dropped it. Would have been an alright story but for the explicit love scene 2/3 of the way through. Ugh.

IN PROGRESS

• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff – Just started.

Happy November reading!