Sunday, April 23, 2006
Reading List
I have 5 weeks until summer. I am very much looking forward to a summer by the pool with a book. Or books. And these are them:
Books that I OWN that I might or might not get to: (in no order)
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Teaching with Love and Logic by
- Setting Limits in the Classroom
-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clark
-Catholic Christianity by Peter Kreeft
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
-Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
- Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
-The Birth Order Book by Kevin Leman
- Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
-Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
- Shadowplay by Clare Asquith
- The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
-The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Rabbit Run by John Updike
-The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
-Jane Austen Book Club
-Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont
- The Twelve Step Program to Quit Becoming a Compulsive Book Buyer by Anonymous
This isn't counting any young adult or other books now in my classroom.
And others that I don't own . . . yet:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Reading Lolita in Tehran
and others. I know there are others. Oh, Summer!