The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
Read with my literature students (a re-read.) I enjoy this, in spite of it’s kooky Christian Science bent, and my students did too. A good story, and worth reading once, particularly for girls. 8.5/10
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Re-read yet again, for a city-wide book read. I love this book. One of my all-time favorites. The first time I’ve read it since becoming an Alabamian and it affected me in different ways. 10/10.
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois
Read with my literature students. Simply fabulous. Every child should read this in the 4th-6th grade range. 9.5/10
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
This book is ubiquitous and I read it in Barnes & Noble one night. Haunting, for sure. I better understood what it would be like to have a close family member go through that level of drug addiction. Still not a “must read.” 7/10
Being Human by Ranald MacAulay & Jerram Barrs
This book about humanity and spirituality is not difficult to read, but fairly insightful, good for the genre of Christian worldview stuff. Some parts are outdated, but not so many it is a huge distraction. 7.5/10
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| Green
| Palacio
| L'Engle
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| Tchividjian
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| Tickle
| Ricks
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| Wolters
I’ve always liked the Secret Garden. Totally missed the Christian Science bend. If you have time, I’d love to be enlightened. I sometimes catch stuff like that and sometimes don’t.
I’ve also read The Twenty-One Balloons and liked it.
Did I ever tell you that the Dad in To Kill a Mockingbird reminds me of my Dad?
I just read To Kill A Mockingbird for the first time, and loved it. I now want to have a son and name him Atticus.
I would have missed so much if I had read it before becoming an Alabamian.
I’m so glad someone else has even heard of The Twenty-One Balloons. Totally by chance that I picked it up, but it’s such a fun book.
I just reread To Kill a Mockingbird. Totally moving, totally hit me in a different way than last time I read it.
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