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A Summer Reading And To Do List

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I love Summer.  I love having my girls at home.  I love crafts, picnics, fireworks, and days spent at the lake.  I love making a Summer To Do List, and seeing my girls faces light up when they have thought of something fun for us to do.

Summer is also the time I do most of my reading.  I am too busy in the fall with knitting and my girls school activities and homework.

I have been scouring Pinterest to find fun crafts for our Craft Wednesdays.  Time to start collecting all those Hobby Lobby and Joann’s coupons.

When it comes to making a reading list, I usually lean towards the fun read that has a little romance.  Every now and then, I branch out.

The first book I want to read is this.

I love Mary Kay Andrews.  I read this and this book last Summer.

I do not know what it is about Ernest Hemingway that fascinates me, but I have to read this book.

I found this on my Books Pinterest board.

I heard that these two books were hilarious!

This book was recommended from this blog.

To finish out my Summer reading, I thought I would include a little Mr. Darcy, but not the book you are thinking off.

Have you ever just typed in Mr. Darcy in the search box on Amazon?  It is crazy how many book have been written about Mr. Darcy.

I am going to read this one.

I only hope that the library has these books.

Now, to make a list of craft supplies, and to try to find the ones I already have among all my boxes.

Happy Tuesday.

My Summer Reading

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Before summer started, I put a little reading list together.  I wanted to read books that were not printed by Harlequin or Silhouette.  They could not have any vampires, werewolves, or anything supernatural in them.  The kind of book that would be chosen by a book club.

Below is the list I came up with.

  1. Redeeming Love Francis Rivers
  2. One Day  David Nicholls
  3. The House at Riverton  Kate Norton
  4. A Severe Mercy  Sheldon Vanauken
  5. The Help Kathryn Stockett

I read one out of five on the list.  I had decided that I would not buy any of the books, and would only get them from the public library.

I started One Day, but it was a book that I could just not focus on with three girls running around the house.  I like what I did read, and will finish this book before Christmas.  The Help is still checked out at the library.  I guess I  should put the darn thing on hold.  The House at Riverton was another book that I just could not get into.  Maybe at another time.  A Severe Mercy, well, I forgot this book was on my list, and I will be checking it out next library trip.

The one book I read was Redeeming Love.  All I can say is OH MY GOODNESS!  This book was phenomenal.  The love that Micheal Hosea  has for God and for Angel is breathtaking.  I do not have the words to truly tell you how incredible this book is.  Our library only had one copy, so I bought them another one.

I read a few books by Mary Kay Andrews, and finally  made a dent in my bible study.

It should not surprise me that I deviated from my list.  I do not think I have ever followed a list to completion.  Ever.

I have started making a list of books to read this fall.  I like to peruse the reading list of literature classes from different universities, and read those books.  It saves me time, which in the end leaves me with more time to play on the computer.

Priorities people.

On a totally random note, nacho cheese Lunchables are fabulous.

What are you reading?