Books that were the most demanding but worth the effort: David Copperfield by Dickens and Our Culture, What's Left of It by Dalrymple.
The books that brought the most pleasure for the least amount of work: The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne, and Sleeping Beauty by C. S. Evans.
Favorite Children's Classics Re-reads: Charlotte's Web and Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.
Best Audiobook: Treasure Island (Narrator Adrian Pretzellis is amazing.)
Best World War II: Monuments Men
Best Christian Books: My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers (the best antidote to fluffy Christianity that I know.), Preparing for Jesus (advent book by Walter Wangerin), and A Life of Obedience by Murray.
BEST OF THE YEAR: Shauna Niequist's Bread and Wine because it echoed the longing of my heart to slow down enough to be available to God and His people.
Most important podcast: Edie Wadsworth's "The Life You Love Manifesto" (same reason as above)
Most important internet article: "The Girl with the Gadget" by Arthur W. Hunt III
Also, I'm making progress on my Classics Club Challenge list. Only fifteen more titles to go! And I read two (of the intended four) Shakespeare plays, Midsummer Night's Dream and Two Gentleman of Verona.
4 comments:
What a lovely list. I am impressed with your amount of books. 64 is good.
I would like to get back to my reading schedule this year. Having double eye surgeries and healing took a big bite out of what I normally read in a year.
We loved Treasure Island read by Mr. Pretzellis. It really is one I will go back too. I still think about the article you shared about our attention spans. I need to read Monument Men this year too.
Lovely list.
Kim
Fantastic list! I always love knowing what you are reading and enjoy the diversity from theology to WWII to children's lit. I enjoy your blog so much.
I've just been thinking about rereading David Copperfield - or listening to the audiobook this time. It is one of my favorite of Dickens, next to Tale of Two Cities.
I like your format of listing them by categories. I might keep that in mind for next year.
Your list, as well as your wisdom, are always so encouraging and inspiring to me. Thank you for blogging!
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