tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post2802433909758400007..comments2024-03-25T19:49:16.058-06:00Comments on Brenda @ It's A Beautiful Life: Choosing A List of Twelve BooksBrenda @ Its A Beautiful Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955486477303938670noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-77378256154853562142012-08-04T20:24:19.465-06:002012-08-04T20:24:19.465-06:00Oh, I'm just not sure I could do it! Maybe if...Oh, I'm just not sure I could do it! Maybe if I counted the Bible as a necessity and not a book to choose. No novels, I know that. I could go a whole year without a novel. Something by Beth Moore, Susie Omartain and Bartletts Familiar Quotations. The Heart of a Woman Who Prays by Elizabeth George, Tozer's Designed to Worship...I've been wanting to read something by Minter. I think I'd have to chose a couple I haven't read. And then leave one space to fill up as the year went on. Wow...this makes you think.Pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14577919062812348914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-62268153977486320762012-07-31T21:43:00.773-06:002012-07-31T21:43:00.773-06:00Hmmm...you have me pondering tonight, Brenda. :D
...Hmmm...you have me pondering tonight, Brenda. :D<br /><br />I hope that I can choose the Bible as one book, so that I might have eleven more. I think that I may choose a Jamie Langston Turner book and a Lynn Austin book (Hopefully these will be ones that I have not yet read.) Then I will peruse my shelf for classics that I have never read (too many!). I will probably reach for <i>Keep a Quiet Heart</i> by Elisabeth Elliot. And my book of poems by Amy Carmichael, <i>Mountain Breezes</i>. May I change my mind mid-year? <br /><br />I do think that there is merit in reading more slowly, allowing time to digest what one is reading.Cheryl https://www.blogger.com/profile/00063844335185525553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-61939501571089922942012-07-27T09:07:19.084-06:002012-07-27T09:07:19.084-06:00I would not count the Bible at all because I want ...I would not count the Bible at all because I want to read it while I read other books. Perhaps I'd choose six new ones and six that I love. I am constantly reading my favorite books. I know where all of the good parts are, but I read right through anyway. Why do I do that?<br /><br />Somewhere in there, I would have do do a few Narnia books. I actually have slowed way down and have only read about a book or two a month lately. So I guess I'm ready for the challenge.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15163662759281341381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-74038293449891484392012-07-26T13:59:53.431-06:002012-07-26T13:59:53.431-06:00I think I would count the Bible as one book...so t...I think I would count the Bible as one book...so that gives you a few more spaces to fill!<br />Definitely 'The Little white Horse' by Elizabeth Goudge.<br />Now I have to have a think!Elizabethdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405703727112759947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-67153141335011129352012-07-26T11:01:21.446-06:002012-07-26T11:01:21.446-06:00This has me putting my thinking cap on and ponderi...This has me putting my thinking cap on and pondering the bookshelves. I'd have the Bible as just one book. Others to add would be Walking on Water by L'Engle, Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, Winter Solstice by Pilcher (for winter), Frenchman's Creek by DuMaurier (for summer), Gaudy Night by Sayer for a mystery, Europe in the Middle Ages (for studying), and definitely something I've not yet read and which could either enchant or disappoint. Fun thought, Brenda!Lorriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653026442945027184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-11578646366180085232012-07-26T09:17:41.215-06:002012-07-26T09:17:41.215-06:00Hey... there are no rules..... just thin'ning ...Hey... there are no rules..... just thin'ning out loud if such a short book list were even possible to stick to....<br /><br />Vee, if I had 'my' own book, maybe I would read it! LOL!<br /><br />Lovely to hear from you Sandy and Lin about your own list possibilities.Brenda @ Its A Beautiful Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02955486477303938670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-86080360769707624342012-07-26T08:56:14.744-06:002012-07-26T08:56:14.744-06:00well, the Bible, Book of Mormon and other religiou...well, the Bible, Book of Mormon and other religious books, histories of my ancestors and self improvement books. I rarely read for entertainment...Great Grandma Linhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-73206441218130880232012-07-26T08:48:39.501-06:002012-07-26T08:48:39.501-06:00Well I am still thinking about that one--such an i...Well I am still thinking about that one--such an interesting idea to ponder! Definitely my Bible though. Thank you for visiting me yesterday--isn't it fun when you see something out somewhere, like a quilt, and you get all inspired? That happens to me all the time. Crafty hugs!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01911937886143732233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6017539925620642059.post-80929504134983147802012-07-26T05:12:29.606-06:002012-07-26T05:12:29.606-06:00You're going to read your own book? ☺ I like y...You're going to read your own book? ☺ I like your idea. It sounds like a good plan, though I'd amend it for myself to the Bible PLUS a book a month <i>or</i> I might not worry about rules and read whatever I'm intrigued by. If you're willing to let the book go, and life is too short to read dull books, does that mean you can move directly on to the next book on your list?Veehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00618654361869856894noreply@blogger.com