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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ June 2nd, 2011, 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Your Summer Reading List |
With the Read-a-Thon signups coming in everyone's talking about their book list. So what about you? What books are you reading this summer and why? What books do you recommend to others to read if they're looking for material? This is just a fun, relaxed place to talk about books you're reading. Go! 
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| Author: | Lady Elanor [ June 2nd, 2011, 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
The Honour of the Knights by Stephen J. Sweeney is a book I would recommend reading!  I haven't decided on a list to read properly yet, but that is definitely one I will be re-reading.
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| Author: | RedWing the Purple [ June 2nd, 2011, 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I'm going to crack down on some Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, and Rosemary Sutcliff. Also some other things. There are some Fantasy books I have my eyes on, but I can't remember their names. <.< I'm also going to read some Ravi Zacharias, C.S. Lewis' nonfiction, and other such things... Probably some historical stuff, too. I have a lot of things on my reading list. We'll see how far I'll get into it. When does this officially start? |
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| Author: | The Bard [ June 2nd, 2011, 4:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I always read multiple books at once so right off the bat I plan on reading. Dracula. The Cat of Bubasties. Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics. Martin Chuzzellwit. That's all for now. 
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| Author: | Cadenza [ June 2nd, 2011, 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I'm not doing the read-a-thon this summer, but I certainly do plan on reading! (a lot) China Court by Rumer Godden (one of my favorite authors.) Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Last of the Mohicans by Cooper Going Solo by Dahl Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Meyer (a biography of Cynthia Ann Parker) Stout-Hearted Seven by Frazier And others, I'm sure! Are there any WWII books any of you would recommend? Preferably true, and appropriate for someone under 18. I already know enough disturbing facts from the period to last me a while. Phylis |
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| Author: | Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ June 3rd, 2011, 7:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I went to our denomination's convention and got a ton of free books But there's others I'm planning on reading.A Reluctant Queen - Joan Wolf (currently reading; about half-way through) What Jesus Demands from the World - John Piper The Pursuit of Man - A.W. Tozer The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask - Mark Mittelberg Handbook for an UNcommon life - Tony Dungy The Aeneid - Virgil The Art of War - Sun Tzu Safely Home - Randy Alcorn (reread) That's all on my list that I own; my birthday is this month so I'll likely have a few (or a lot) more on my list soon eru |
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| Author: | Manda Kondrael [ June 3rd, 2011, 7:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Firstly, I am using the read-a-thon to hurry up my parent's decision on my reading LotR. XD But even if I don't end up getting to read that one during the read-a-thon, I'm going to reread the Inkheart trilogy (again). Lots of pages there, and it's awesome. And after that I'll probably read Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight for the 32nd time. Then I shall raid the library and my bookshelves for more books  (primarily fantasy, but I think I have some Henty books hanging around someplace.... and a Jane Austen book or two, and some sci-fi...).
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| Author: | Elly [ June 3rd, 2011, 2:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Giver by Lois Lowry Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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| Author: | Celestria [ June 3rd, 2011, 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
The Blood of the Kings Trilogy by Jill Williamson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson (again) The Art of War by Sun Tzu Reread a few of Redwall. And just about any other free book on the nook that piques my interest. Pretty small at the moment. |
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| Author: | RedWing the Purple [ June 3rd, 2011, 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Manda wrote: And after that I'll probably read Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight for the 32nd time. ) Oh! Oh! Thank you! You reminded me of what else I needed to read. I need to finish Cyndere's Midnight. I loved Auralia's Colors. Awesome book. I haven't been able to finish Cyndere's Midnight. Then I'll read Raven's Ladder. And the next one...I can't remember if it's out yet.
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| Author: | Manda Kondrael [ June 3rd, 2011, 7:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
RedWing wrote: Manda wrote: And after that I'll probably read Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight for the 32nd time. ) Oh! Oh! Thank you! You reminded me of what else I needed to read. I need to finish Cyndere's Midnight. I loved Auralia's Colors. Awesome book. I haven't been able to finish Cyndere's Midnight. Then I'll read Raven's Ladder. And the next one...I can't remember if it's out yet.Lol, you're welcome.  Cyndere's Midnight is just as awesome as Auralia's Colors. (btw, yes, The Ale Boy's Feast is out.)
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| Author: | Cadenza [ June 4th, 2011, 8:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Elly - Would you tell me how you liked "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge? I really enjoyed "The Dean's Watch" by the same author, and would love to read another book by her! |
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| Author: | Sienna North [ June 4th, 2011, 12:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Phylis Patschske wrote: Elly - Would you tell me how you liked "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge? I really enjoyed "The Dean's Watch" by the same author, and would love to read another book by her! I know I'm not Elly, but let me just mention that I LOVE THAT BOOK!!!!! It's one of my all-time favorites. If you're one for old-style English countryside tales with some mystical fantasy elements thrown in, but mostly just old-fashioned sweet story, then you'll love it. It's very ethereal and close-to-nature, with a very lovely {Anglican} portrayal of the parson, the church, and religion in general. Biblical morality definitely emphasized. Anyway, it's a great book, although the quaint style's not for everyone. ~ Dawn |
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| Author: | Sienna North [ June 4th, 2011, 12:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Well, you asked for it, so here's the current version of my summer 2011 reading list. There's a backup list too for when I'm through with this one .Attitude 101 (John Maxwell) Failing Forward (John Maxwell) Talent is Never Enough (John Maxwell) The Servant (James C. Hunter) Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Galeman) Success is Not an Accident (Tommy Newberry Communicate with Confidence (Dianna Booher) What Every Body is Saying (Joe Navarro) Common Sense (Thomas Paine) Words of Delight (Leland Ryken) The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell) The Illiad (Homer) The Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Politics (Aristotle) Poetics (Aristotle) Elements of Geometry (Euclid) Confessions (St Augustine) Summa Theologica (St Thomas Aquinas) The Prince (Niccollo Machiavelli) Utopia (Sir Thomas More) Institutes (John Calvin) Don Quioxte (Miguel de Cervantes) Paradise Lost (John Milton) "Of Civil Government" (John Locke) Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope) Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant) Critique of Practical Reason (Immanuel Kant) Elements of Chemistry (Antoine Lavoisier) Federalist Papers The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) No Exit (John Paul Sarte) Steering the Craft (Ursula Le Guin) Stein on Writing (Sol Stein) The Scaffolding of Rhetoric (Winston Churchill) The World is Flat (Milton Friedman) Brain Rules (Medina) 1984 (George Orwell) On Writing (Stephen King) Switch (Chuch and Dan Heath) And my current tally: 1 down {finished 1984 yesterday}; 1 halfway through {The Odyssey, a 1909 version} Yes, I know, I'm starting early. But I think I'll still have plenty left! |
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| Author: | Elly [ June 4th, 2011, 1:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Phylis Patschske wrote: Elly - Would you tell me how you liked "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge? I really enjoyed "The Dean's Watch" by the same author, and would love to read another book by her! Sure, Phylis! Evenstar wrote: I know I'm not Elly, but let me just mention that I LOVE THAT BOOK!!!!! It's one of my all-time favorites. If you're one for old-style English countryside tales with some mystical fantasy elements thrown in, but mostly just old-fashioned sweet story, then you'll love it. It's very ethereal and close-to-nature, with a very lovely {Anglican} portrayal of the parson, the church, and religion in general. Biblical morality definitely emphasized. Anyway, it's a great book, although the quaint style's not for everyone. ~ Dawn I'm definitely looking forward to it. I like those type of books, which is why I love pawing through the old book piles that nobody wants anymore!
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| Author: | Varon [ June 4th, 2011, 2:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I don't have an official list. |
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| Author: | Cadenza [ June 4th, 2011, 3:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Thanks Evenstar and Elly! Her quaint style is for me; her descriptions and figurative language are awesome! Evenstar - What are the fantasy elements? |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ June 4th, 2011, 10:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Evenstar... that is a serious list!  Mine right now is rather incomplete. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Priest's Graveyard - Ted Dekker Some series by Peretti I can't remember the name of, but which my mom says we own so I'm going to go hunt it down at some point. That's all I have on hand, though I plan to hunt down some more. and there are plenty on my "Should read some day" list, just not all of them have made it to my "immediate plans to read" list. Like the great big physics book staring at me pleadingly. 
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| Author: | Evening L. Aspen [ June 5th, 2011, 12:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
My reading list will take me to about 6000 pages. Hopefully I'll have time to read all these books! Book of D'ni The City of Ember The People of Sparks Raising Dairy Goats (non-fiction...go figure) Auralia's Colors 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Mysterious Island The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Inkheart Inkspell Inkdeath Fire Starfire |
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| Author: | Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ June 6th, 2011, 7:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
A lot of those are really good books, Lady E. Best of success @Jaynin: I need to read more Russian authors; particularly Dostoevsky - I find his work intriguing. @Evenstar: That is a long list. Best of success to ye though! eru |
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| Author: | Sienna North [ June 6th, 2011, 2:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Phylis Patschske wrote: Thanks Evenstar and Elly! Her quaint style is for me; her descriptions and figurative language are awesome! Evenstar - What are the fantasy elements? Yes, I love that style, too! As for fantasy elements... I'll leave that for you to find out. Let me just say it has something to do with this little white horse...which may or may not be a horse... as well as the great dog Wrolf {which may or may not be a dog}. *Plunges into fond memories of The Little White Horse* eruheran wrote: @Evenstar: That is a long list. Best of success to ye though! Yes, it's long... *gulps* My point is to read them thoroughly, though, so if I don't finish by the deadline then it won't be the end of the world. {It'll just seem like it  } Thanks for the well-wishes!
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| Author: | Leandra Falconwing [ June 6th, 2011, 8:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
I haven't really given this a lot of thought, but I'll go ahead and list some books I'd like to read this summer. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Patricia C. Wrede) Thirteenth Child, and if it comes on time, the sequel Across the Great Barrier (Patricia C. Wrede) Green and Gray (Timothy Zahn) The Icarus Hunt (Timothy Zahn) The Squire's Tale and following books (Gerald Morris) The Great and Terrible Quest (Margaret Lovett) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) We'll see how many of these I actually read. I'll also be reading the textbook for my class, if that counts.
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| Author: | Arias Mimetes [ June 7th, 2011, 12:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
*needs to go back and read previous posts later* This is the quickest way for me to share my ever-growing reading list: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/54 ... lf=to-read The books I plan on reading next would be Inkheart, Eragon, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dragons of Chiril, and the last three books of the Dragons In Our Midst series (and whatever else I can find at the church library). Eventually adding the books that come after the first two if I like them, and whatever I get through the blogging for books program. If I somehow get all of those finished, then I'll probably start on the classics. But they take quite a bit longer; I've been reading Emma for nearly a month now. @Evenstar: As weird as this sounds, thanks for posting such a list I don't feel so crazy now. Best of luck to you! (and to everyone participating )
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| Author: | Sienna North [ June 7th, 2011, 12:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Arias Myles wrote: @Evenstar: As weird as this sounds, thanks for posting such a list I don't feel so crazy now. Best of luck to you! (and to everyone participating ) Oh, don't worry, we're all rather batty around here. I'm glad to commiserate in common craziness! And the goodreads idea is great! {Although for myself I prefer having a simple words-only list.} |
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| Author: | Elly [ June 7th, 2011, 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
| My list is so outdated it isn't funny.
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| Author: | Elly [ June 17th, 2011, 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
((Sorry for double-posting.)) Here are my latest library check-outs: Two Princesses of Bamarre Ella Enchanted The Hobbit Dear America: Like the Willow Tree The Royal Diaries: Anastasia Meet the Austins Mandy book (Can't remember which one right now) ...and several of the Janette Oke Love Comes Softly 2-in-1 books. |
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| Author: | Varon [ June 20th, 2011, 10:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Your Summer Reading List |
Arias Myles wrote: *needs to go back and read previous posts later* This is the quickest way for me to share my ever-growing reading list: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/54 ... lf=to-read The books I plan on reading next would be Inkheart, Eragon, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dragons of Chiril, and the last three books of the Dragons In Our Midst series (and whatever else I can find at the church library). Someone else is reading Hitchhiker's! |
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