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My 2022 Book List & My Top Ten Songs
Happy New Year, friends and family! As I did in 2021, this past year I kept track of all the books I read, either as family read-alouds or on my own. (This list doesn’t include the books the kids asked me to read out loud to them–that would be a very long list!) As a family, we especially enjoyed Brave Ollie Possum by Ethan Nicolle, the Green Ember and Archer series by S.D. Smith, and the Nnewts series by Doug TenNapel. My favortie books on the list this year are The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald. The book that held my attention for…
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My Complete 2021 Book List
Introduction This blog post contains a complete list of all the books I read in 2021. I finished all the books I began reading this year except for two for various reasons, which I listed next to them on my book list. This brings me to a total of 32 books read this year. As in past years, I read more fiction than non-fiction, but the non-fiction books I read I generally found helpful and encouraging, or informative and interesting, depending on the genre. My book list doesn’t include the children’s books I read out loud to the kids, just the books I read on my own or initiated reading…
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Quotes From Our Current Reading Material
“Little Sal picked three berries and dropped them in her little tin pail…kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! She picked three more berries and ate them. Then she picked more berries and dropped one in the pail–kuplunk! And the rest she ate. Then Little Sal ate all four blueberries out of her pail!”Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey *** “They came round the corner, and there was Eeyore’s house, looking as comfy as anything.‘There you are,’ said Piglet.‘Inside as well as outside,’ said Pooh proudly.Eeyore went inside…and came out again.‘Its a remarkable thing,’ he said. ‘It is my house, and I built it where I said I did, so the wind must have…