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<\/p>\nA thousand things have happened since my last Nightstand post, and very few have involved reading. So this month’s list is rather shorter than my usual.<\/p>\n
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This month I read:<\/b><\/p>\n Yes, that’s 13<\/i> titles. Only<\/i> 13 titles. I’m rather astonished myself.<\/p>\n But I’ve been busying living a story of God’s faithfulness. He has been exceedingly faithful to orchestrate so many details of the past months–from my work situation to my friendships to deep works within my heart. I would not trade this life for a thousand books (although I still wouldn’t mind<\/i> a thousand books, and the time to read them :-P)<\/p>\n In the meantime, I’m working on the following:<\/p>\n Don’t forget to drop by 5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a> to see what others are reading this month!<\/p>\n A thousand things have happened since my last Nightstand post, and very few have involved reading. So this month’s list is rather shorter than my usual. My Entire Nightstand This month I read: Adult Fiction Glory by Lori Copeland Another “Brides of the West” title from Copeland. Not spectacular but not awful either. Twice Loved … Read more Nightstand (August 2012)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Adult Fiction<\/h3>\n
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\nAnother “Brides of the West” title from Copeland. Not spectacular but not awful either.<\/li>\n
\nEh. A nice light read. I did enjoy reading in the author’s afternote that she’s a fan of Support Your Local Sheriff<\/i>–yes, her books rather remind me of that classic Western comedy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAdult Non-fiction<\/h3>\n
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\nA book by an MD\/litigator intended to empower the public to avoid medical malpractice. It was interesting, but mostly annoying. Klein is an old-school doc who is all about ordering a hundred thousand tests, regardless of the cost (in money and in anxiety). He’s mistrustful of mid-level practitioners (I live with one and happen to respect them highly). He’s very down on the American medical system. Basically, I thought the subject matter interesting but the author a complete blankety-blank. (No, I’m not prone to cussing, but I took a violent dislike to the author and can think of not a few bad words to describe how I feel about him.) Yeah, so, take from that whatever you will.<\/li>\n
\nDespite my prolific abuses of Jon Krakauer, bigot, I actually enjoyed this book overall. Wanna read my abuses? Go right on ahead.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nJuvenile Fiction<\/h3>\n
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\nEarlier this year, I received a review copy of the first three Sierra Jensen books for my Kinde–except that the latter two wouldn’t show up on my Kindle. Thankfully, a friend owns all of them and she had her mom bring them up to town a while back. So I’m catching up on the series I didn’t read as a teen. Still liking these even better than the rather more “drama-filled” Christy-Miller series.<\/li>\n
\nSequel to A Wrinkle in Time<\/i>, this one has Meg and Calvin joining a cosmic classroom to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi doing war within his farandolae (organisms within his mitochondria.) Another fascinating and imaginative work by L’Engle.<\/li>\n
\nThis might be my favorite of the “Wrinkle” series that I’ve read so far. In it, Charles Wallace time travels into a collection of characters, where he makes small but critical choices to keep the Ecthroi’s dreams (destruction) from coming true.<\/li>\n
\nLike the rest of Trenton Lee Stewart’s books, I really enjoyed this prequel to the Mysterious Benedict Society. In it, young Nicholas Benedict is moved to yet another new orphanage where he is again sorely abused, but this time learns to care about more than himself.<\/li>\nJuvenile Non-Fiction<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nPart of What I’ve been doing with my time<\/i><\/div>\n\n
\nWhy have I held Russian authors so long in such great fear? This is masterful fiction.<\/li>\n
\nWon from Lisa Writes<\/a>. I am loving this God-honoring approach to reading.<\/li>\n
\nI’m learning the meaning of “steeping”, spending months in the same book, letting its words and phrases and sentences and paragraphs infuse my life. Learning how to walk in the light. Hearing, seeing, and touching eternal life. Discovering how little I love and longing to love as I have been loved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"What's](\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/buttons\/nightstand.jpg\" "\\"What's")
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