Friday, January 12, 2007

Books Read in 2006

January
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Clearing the Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

February
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Stretching Lessons by Sue Bender
The Christmas Scrapbook by Philip Gulley
Keepsake Crimes by Laura Childs

March
Revelation by Beverley Lewis
The Rent Tent by Anita Diamant
Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone by JK Rowling
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Piccoult

April
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Globlet of Fire by JK Rowling

May
Amish Women by Louis Stoltzfus
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

June
The Paper House by Carlos Maria Dominguez
Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult

July
A Covington Christmas by Joan Medlicott
Big Stone Gap by Adrianna Trigiani
Everything Happens for a Reason by Mira Kirshenbaum
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

August
The Preacher's Daughter by Beverley Lewis
Demon's and Angels by Dan Brown
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
The Store Keeper's Daughter by Wanda Brunstetter
The Quilter's Daughter by Wanda Brunstetter

September
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Coming Home by David Lewis
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
The Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverina

October
Round Robin by Jennifer Chiaverina
The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverina
Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy

November
The Bishop's Daughter by Wanda Brunstetter
The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverina
The Mobile Library; The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom

December
Living the Good Life by Linda Cockburn
The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson
The Brethren by Beverley Lewis

Favourite reads of the year: The Harry Potter Series. After swearing from a conservative Christian viewpoint that we wouldn't touch these books several years ago, I picked up the first book from the library after the kids had told me that they had seen the movie at school. I wanted to see what they had been exposed to. Haha! Love them.

Also Linda Cockburn's book Living the Good Life. Someone had mention the book on a Simple Living website and I vaguely remembered reading about the family 'who spent no money in six months' in a magazine. I enjoyed Linda's humorous writing about her family of three living off the land and since reading it I've taken up a few 'green' habits. My mother thought I was going overboard with it all when I took all the tape off the Christmas wrapping paper after the presents had been opened so it could be recycled. Then a couple of days later there was a piece on the news about how the recycling centre had finished sorting out last years Christmas paper pile in October! I'm seriously thinking about making some fabric bags to use more than once instead of wrapping paper. Since I'm going overboard anyway... lol.

Quiet and Peaceful 2007... Please!

Been fighting depression yet again. It is nearly always brought on by stress, and unfortunately I've had four very stressful years. (I've only had depression in the last three years.) And with Christmas being filled with dealing with awkward people, various stuff on a long to-do list and one angry 10yo it got a bit much. Again.... Sigh. Here's wishing for a quiet and peaceful 2007!