Nightstand (December 2010)

It’s the last Nightstand of 2010 and with my move complete, I’m switching things up a bit (Read “What’s up with my nightstand?” for more information.)

So, without further ado, my nightstand:

On my nightstand

Yes, I stacked the books double deep on that first shelf–and had an overflow crate in my closet.

On my nightstand

Adult Fiction
6 Christian, 6 secular, 2 literary

  1. Another Homecoming by Oke/Bunn
  2. Return to Harmony by Oke/Bunn
  3. Tomorrow’s Dream by Oke/Bunn
  4. Munich Signature by Bodie Thoene
  5. Danzig Passage by Bodie Thoene
  6. Jerusalem Interlude by Bodie Thoene
  7. Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
  8. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Review by Colloquium)
  9. Living dead girl by Elizabeth Scott (Review by S. Krishna)
  10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer
  11. The inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
  12. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  14. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Adult Non-Fiction
At least two from each of the following categories: theology/Christian living, biography, craft/project, and cookbooks.

  1. Confessions by St. Augustine
  2. If the church were Christian : rediscovering the values of Jesus by Philip Gully
  3. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynn Withey
  4. Winston Churchill : a Penguin life by John Keegan
  5. Super quick colorful quilts by Rosemary Wilkinson
  6. Tie-dye : the how-to book by Virginia Gleser
  7. The pioneer woman cooks by Ree Drummond
  8. Quick cooking for two by Sunset
  9. Composting by Liz Ball
  10. The complete idiot’s guide to stretching illustrated by Barbara Templeton
  11. Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  12. How to save your own life by Michael Gates Gill
  13. Einstein’s refrigerator : and other stories from the flip side of history by Steve Silverman
  14. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
  15. The woman’s fix-it car care book by Karen Valenti
  16. The science of sexy by Bradley Bayou
  17. The pocket stylist by Kendall Farr
  18. Women’s wardrobe by Kim Johnson Gross

Juvenile Fiction
“Chapter” books, middle grade fiction, and YA fiction.

  1. Secret of the lost tunnel by Franklin Dixon
  2. Much ado about Anne by Heather Vogel Frederick (Review by 5M4B)
  3. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelley
  4. Freaky Friday by Anne Rodgers
  5. She’s so dead to us by Kieran Scott
  6. The mystery of the hidden painting created by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Juvenile Non-Fiction
Two books per state, 1 state per week for the entirety of 2011–plus a few extras for fun.

  1. Ask me anything a Dorling Kindersley book
  2. Maine by Ann Heinrichs
  3. Maine by Terry Allan Hicks
  4. Massachusetts by Ruth Bjorkland
  5. Massachusetts by Sarah DeCapua
  6. Massachusetts by Paul Joseph
  7. Massachusetts by Trudi Strain Trueit
  8. Massachusetts: The Bay State by Rachel Barenblatt
  9. New Hampshire by Terry Allan Hicks
  10. New Hampshire by Deborah Kent
  11. Rhode Island by Susan Labella
  12. Rhode Island by Rick Petreycik
  13. Vermont by Christine Taylor Butler
  14. Vermont by Megan Dornfeld
  15. Vermont by Ann Heinrichs

Picture Books
75 titles from author “BAR” to author “BAT”
to make a total of 128 titles

Then I checked out 14 CDs and 5 DVDs to bring my library total up to 148–two under the max!

Catch-up Reviews:

For any of you interested in the reviews I promised I’d be catching up on…here are the ones I’ve done over the past month…

…and the rest of these are written and are set to post within the next week…

  • The Narnian by Alan Jacobs
  • Boiling Mad: Inside the American Tea Party by Kate Zernicke
  • Justice that Restores by Chuck Colson
  • Radical by David Platt

What's on Your Nightstand?

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