Thursday, January 01, 2009

Books I Read, 2008

This one might take awhile, but will be useful to me in various ways, even if it doesn't turn out to be interesting to anyone else. Some of these still need to be officially reviewed for Love2learn. It seems like it's been a slow year in the writing (especially reviewing) department. I also started and didn't finish quite a few books. I've read lots of picture books too, of course, just a little too difficult to keep track of. :)

Shakespeare:

King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing

Other Literature:

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (3rd or 4th time I think)
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Beowulf (2nd time)
The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (2nd or 3rd time)

Fiction:

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
Atticus by Ron Hansen
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (umpteenth time)
Arms of Love by Carmen Marcoux
Surrender by Carmen Marcoux
Healing Water by Joyce Meyer Hostetter
Blue by Joyce Meyer Hostetter
Fingal's Quest by Madeleine Polland (2nd time)
Catholic Reluctantly by Christian M. Frank
The Good Land by Loula Grace Erdman
The Wide Horizon by Loula Grace Erdman

Non-Fiction:

Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II
Witness to Hope by George Weigel (abridged audio edition)
Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI
A Haystack Full of Needles by Alice Gunther
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
The Legacy of John Paul II: Images and Memories by Cardinal Ratzinger
A Picture Perfect Childhood by Cay Gibson
Alfred of Wessex by Frank Morris (2nd time)
Behind Enemy Lines: A Young Pilot's Story by H.R. DeMallie
Spe Salvi by Pope Benedict XVI (2nd time)
If All the Swords in England by Barbara Willard (2nd time)
What it Means to be a Christian by Pope Benedict XVI
How the Reformation Happened by Hilaire Belloc (2nd time)
Great Explorations: John Charles Fremont, Pathfinder to the West by Harold Faber

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