Nightstand (February 2010)

It’s time again for 5 Minutes 4 Books’ monthly meme.

Last month’s nightstand:

I’ve done quite a bit less reading than usual this month, partly because the time between meme posts is shorter, but mostly because I’ve been so busy with Love Month (and keeping up with school).

What I actually read this month was:
(Links lead to my reviews of the book, never to a site selling you something.)

Fiction

• Beyond the Gathering Storm by Janette Oke
• How Do I Love Thee? by Nancy Moser

Nonfiction

• The Best Case Scenario Handbook by John Tierney
• The Bombshell Manual of Style by Laren Stover
• Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations by Jonathon Green
• Christmas Letters from Hell by Michael Lent
• Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry
• The Two-Headed Boy and other medical marvels< by Jan Bondeson
  Interesting information, reads like a academic journal–not EXACTLY my favorite kind of reading (although I do quite a bit of it, I prefer it to be in my field!) I stopped this title after 80 pages. But with this one officially done, I’ve finished the Dewey Decimal category 610 at my library.

Juvenile

• 7 titles by Allan Ahlberg
• The Anne of Green Gables Storybook
  Why does anyone write adaptations? And why does anyone read them? This is basically all the worst attributes of the Anne movies without any of the redeeming attributes of the Anne books. Ugh!
• Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
• Lucy Maud Montgomery by Alexandra Wallner
  Meh. This children’s biography of LMM wasn’t anything spectacular, IMHO.
• The Mystery of the Broken Blade by Franklin Dixon
• Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

On my nightstand for next month:

Fiction

• John 3:16 by Nancy Moser
• When Tomorrow Comes by Janette Oke

Nonfiction

• Don’t Waste Your Life* by John Piper
• Dug Down Deep* by Joshua Harris
• Forgotten God by Francis Chan
• When God Writes Your Love Story* by Eric and Leslie Ludy
• The World’s Last Night and other essays by C.S. Lewis

Juvenile

• Bus Station Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Celtic Fairy Tales by Philip and Brent
• The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Perrault and Holmes
• Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• The Flickering Torch Mystery by Franklin Dixon
• The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales* by Philip and Mistry
• Children’s picture books AJ-AL

*The asterisk marks books I’m currently in the middle of.

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