September's Booklist
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verity83It's a few days early, but I will not have time to read much more before it'll be October, so here's this month's list.
36. Beekeeping for Dummies, Howland Blackiston. 333pp
A great overview of beekeeping with plenty of illustrations and so forth. I must be destined for beekeeping, because his description of the love and attachment one develops for one's bees fit me to a tee.
37. The Bible Story, Vol. 1: The Book of Beginnings, Arthur Maxwell. 190pp
Started going through these for Molly's bedtime/our evening worship reading. Not very consistent about it, but it has been fun.
38. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler. 402pp
I'm not sure even where to begin with this one, because the topic of China is so vast and as always, books about China leave my mind swimming - in a good way. So much to process, and so much fascination. I really enjoyed his perspective as a teacher, because the excerpts from his students' papers are so telling and evocative.
39. My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George. 177pp
For about the first half of this book, I was not all that impressed. It's written in a very spare narrative that left me rather indifferent to the story. It picked up a bit somewhere around the middle.
I wouldn't say I disliked it - I just would have enjoyed a little more emotional punch to go with the character development, which was the more interesting part for me.
Or maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind.
40. Cornelli, Johanna Spyri. 275pp
I always enjoy a good Spyri read, and this did not disappoint. It follows more or less the usual Spyri formula, and therefore the ending wasn't too hard to predict (although it wasn't QUITE what I predicted, it was about right).
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12 books to go to complete my goal of 52 books this year - I'm barely keeping up, and hope I can do it!
Year-to-date totals:
Page count for September: 1377
Total page count for 2011: 9451
Nonfiction: 24
Fiction: 3
Juvenile fiction: 11
Juvenile nonfiction: 2
Rereads: 1
36. Beekeeping for Dummies, Howland Blackiston. 333pp
A great overview of beekeeping with plenty of illustrations and so forth. I must be destined for beekeeping, because his description of the love and attachment one develops for one's bees fit me to a tee.
37. The Bible Story, Vol. 1: The Book of Beginnings, Arthur Maxwell. 190pp
Started going through these for Molly's bedtime/our evening worship reading. Not very consistent about it, but it has been fun.
38. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler. 402pp
I'm not sure even where to begin with this one, because the topic of China is so vast and as always, books about China leave my mind swimming - in a good way. So much to process, and so much fascination. I really enjoyed his perspective as a teacher, because the excerpts from his students' papers are so telling and evocative.
39. My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George. 177pp
For about the first half of this book, I was not all that impressed. It's written in a very spare narrative that left me rather indifferent to the story. It picked up a bit somewhere around the middle.
I wouldn't say I disliked it - I just would have enjoyed a little more emotional punch to go with the character development, which was the more interesting part for me.
Or maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind.
40. Cornelli, Johanna Spyri. 275pp
I always enjoy a good Spyri read, and this did not disappoint. It follows more or less the usual Spyri formula, and therefore the ending wasn't too hard to predict (although it wasn't QUITE what I predicted, it was about right).
***
12 books to go to complete my goal of 52 books this year - I'm barely keeping up, and hope I can do it!
Year-to-date totals:
Page count for September: 1377
Total page count for 2011: 9451
Nonfiction: 24
Fiction: 3
Juvenile fiction: 11
Juvenile nonfiction: 2
Rereads: 1
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Date: 2011-09-30 02:04 pm (UTC)