Findings

Books read in 2008: (The list for 2007 is here.)

Bible: I’m continuing to work my way through the Bible, a project started in 2007. (Posts are in the Bible category.)

Just for fun:

1. “The Pleasures of Eating,” from Wendell Berry’s What Are People For?
2. Watchman’s Stone, Rona Randall
3. Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff 
4. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Robin McKinley
5. The Diary of a Country Priest, Georges Bernanos
6. The Queen of Air and Darkness, T.H. White 
7. The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
8. The Candle In the Wind, T.H. White
9. “Harrison Bergeron,” from Tales from the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
10. Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey
11. The Light Princess, George MacDonald
12. True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer
13. Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It, Os Guinness
14. No Little People, Francis Schaeffer
15. Through Gates of Splendor, Elisabeth Elliot
16. In the Presence of My Enemies, Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill 
17. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
18. The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
19. One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
20. God in the Dark, Os Guinness
21. Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, Sally Clarkson
22. A Cry Like a Bell, Madeleine L’Engle
23. The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation, Bill McKibben
24. Certain Women, Madeleine L’Engle
25. The Book of Job, trans. Stephen Mitchell
26. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
27. The Red Castle Women, Margaret Widdemer
28. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

Horse books read aloud to my daughter: (Batch reviews here and here.)

1. Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague (Henry)
2. White Stallion of Lipizza (Henry)
3. King of the Wind (Henry, audiobook)
4. Justin Morgan Had a Horse (Henry)
5. Brighty of the Grand Canyon (Henry)
6. Black Beauty (Sewell, audiobook)
7. Old Bones the Wonder Horse (M.M. Pace)
8. Summer Pony (J.S. Doty)
9. A Pony for the Winter (H. Kay)
10. Cowardly Clyde (B. Peet)
11. The Mare on the Hill (T. Locker)
12. Leah’s Pony (E. Friedrich)
13. Robert the Rose Horse (J. Heilbroner)
14. Horses! (Kathy Wilmore)
15. Girls and Their Horses (American Girl)
16. I Wonder Why Horses Wear Shoes (Jackie Gaff)
17. Flip and Flip and the Cows (Wesley Dennis)
18. Winter Pony (Jean Slaughter Doty)
19. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Paul Goble)
20. Indian Two-Feet and His Horse (Friskey)
21. Black Kettle (Justin Denzel)
22. Little Black, A Pony (Walter Farley)
23. The Rumble Seat Pony, Blaze stories, The Lonesome Colt, The Rumble-Seat Pony (C.W. Anderson)
24. A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back (Ursula K. LeGuin)
25. Wild Mustang (Lynn Hall)

Celebrate the Author Challenge:

1. The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander.
2. Assorted stories, Russell Hoban.
3. Assorted stories, Dr. Seuss.
4. No One Noticed the Cat, Anne McCaffrey.
5. Frog and Toad Together, and other stories by Arnold Lobel
6. The Polar Express, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Chris Van Allsburg

Decades ‘08 Challenge:

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
2. A Room with a View, E.M. Forster.
3. Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
4. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf.
5. The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White.
6. The Ill-Made Knight, T.H. White.
7. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
8. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S. Lewis

Tried, crashed, and burned before completing:

1. A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
3. Stormy, Misty’s Foal, Marguerite Henry
4. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Song of the Earth, Jonathan Bate
6. The Monkey-Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
7. The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty
8. The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
9. The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin