{"id":2070,"date":"2010-04-27T06:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T11:15:59","slug":"nightstand-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100427-2070.htm","title":{"rendered":"Nightstand (April 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again to report the contents of our Nightstands, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a>.  I was hoping to be able to link up before I left for my interview&#8211;but I s&#8217;pose 6 am is a little early to expect a post to be up by.  So enjoy browsing my books and check out 5M4B to see more Nightstand posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100322-1758.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Last month&#8217;s nightstand:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"On my nightstand\" src=\"images\/20100323-1.jpg\" title=\"On my nightstand\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What I actually read this month was:<\/b><br \/>\n(Links lead to my reviews of the book, never to a site selling you something.)<\/p>\n<p><u>Fiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Apothecary&#8217;s Daughter<\/i> by Julie Klassen<\/li>\n<li><i>Divine and Human (and other stories)<\/i> by Leo Tolstoy<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t read many short stories since my anthology days in middle school&#8211;but this collection of short stories by Tolstoy definitely piqued my interest.  Like I noted when I reviewed <a href=\"books\/tolstoy_l-resurrection.htm\"><i>Resurrection<\/i><\/a>, Tolstoy&#8217;s characters are fantastic and the interactions between them often complex&#8211;but Tolstoy tends to moralize and certain of the stories can be heavy-handed in their conviction that socialism is the appropriate application of Christ&#8217;s words.  Now that I&#8217;ve read a collection of Tolstoy&#8217;s works from <i>after<\/i> his conversion to Christ and embrace of pacifism and socialism, maybe I&#8217;ll have to read some of his earlier, better known works.  Anybody got suggestions for my next Tolstoy read?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/moser_n-mozartssister.htm\"><i>Mozart&#8217;s Sister<\/i><\/a> by Nancy Moser<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/oke_j-onceuponasummer.htm\"><i>Once upon a Summer<\/i><\/a> by Janette Oke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Nonfiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"books\/swenson_k-biblebabel.htm\"><i>Bible Babel<\/i><\/a> by Kristin Swenson<\/li>\n<li><i>Biology: High School Review<\/i> by Princeton Review<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/buettner_d-bluezone.htm\"><i>The Blue Zone<\/i><\/a> by Daniel Buettner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/walls_j-glasscastle.htm\"><i>The Glass Castle<\/i><\/a> by Jeannette Walls<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/andrews_j-home.htm\"><i>Home<\/i><\/a> by Julie Andrews.<\/li>\n<li><i>Male\/Female Roles: Opposing Viewpoints<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/salwen_k-powerofhalf.htm\"><i>The Power of Half<\/i><\/a> by Kevin and Hannah Salwen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/medved_m-10biglies.htm\"><i>The Ten Big Lies About America<\/i><\/a> by Michael Medved<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/caner_e-unveilingislam.htm\"><i>Unveiling Islam<\/i><\/a> by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner<br \/>\nI also wrote extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/tag\/unveiling-islam\">notes<\/a> on this title as I read it.<\/li>\n<li><i>Vegetables Every Day<\/i> by Jack Bishop<br \/>\nI made several recipes from this book and was quite pleased with the results.  I modified a recipe for honey glazed parsnips and liked it so much that I <a href=\"\/recipes\/honey_glazed_root_vegetables.htm\">posted my modified version<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll probably be checking this one out of the library again&#8211;it has TONS of vegetable recipes, most of which can be easily modified as needed.  This is a book worth having.<\/li>\n<li><i>Words to Live By<\/i> by Charles Panati<\/li>\n<li><i>The World&#8217;s Last Night and other essays<\/i> by C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/books\/carson_m-yearofblinddates.htm\"><i>A Year of Blind Dates<\/i><\/a> by Megan Carson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Juvenile<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catch-up Children&#8217;s Picture Books ALBOROUGH-ALIKI (11 titles) including:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100326-2083.htm\"><i>Always Room for One More<\/i><\/a> by Sorche Nic Leodhas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s Picture books author ALLARD-ANDERSEN (68 titles) including:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100330-2161.htm\"><i>Brothers of the Knight<\/i><\/a> by Debbie Allen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100411-2316.htm\"><i>We are All Born Free<\/i><\/a> by Amnesty International<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100413-2344.htm\"><i>For sure! For sure!<\/i><\/a> by Hans Christian Andersen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/warner_g_c-hauntedcabinmystery.htm\"><i>The Haunted Cabin Mystery<\/i><\/a> by Gertrude Chandler Warner<\/li>\n<li><i>I, Coriander<\/i> by Sally Gardner<\/li>\n<li><i>Inkdeath<\/i> by Cordelia Funke<br \/>\nIt took me several chapters to get hooked into <i>Inkheart<\/i>.  I slipped easily back into that world with <i>Inkspell<\/i>.  And <i>Inkdeath<\/i> absolutely captivated me.  This is a rare trilogy that improves with every tale. <\/li>\n<li><i>The Melted Coins<\/i> by Franklin Dixon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>This month&#8217;s nightstand<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"On my nightstand\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/20100427-1.jpg\" title=\"On my nightstand\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><u>Fiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Eye Contact<\/i> by Cammie McGovern<br \/>\nAdded to my TBR list after reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/framedandbooked.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/25-eye-contact-by-cammie-mcgovern.html\" target=\"_blank\">review by Framed and Booked<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Lost in Rooville<\/i> by Ray Blackston<\/li>\n<li><i>Washington&#8217;s Lady<\/i> by Nancy Moser<\/li>\n<li><i>Where Love is, There God is also<\/i> by Leo Tolstoy<br \/>\nI&#8217;m dancing around reading the big two: <i>Anna Karenina<\/i> and <i>War and Peace<\/i>.  I think my library has one more collection of short stories that I can procrastinate with before I start in on the two that still manage to majorly intimidate me (despite the fact that I enjoyed <a href=\"books\/tolstoy_l-resurrection.htm\"><i>Resurrection<\/i><\/a>&#8211;which is almost as long as Anna Karenina&#8211;a great deal.)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Winds of Autumn<\/i> by Janette Oke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Nonfiction<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Children&#8217;s Blizzard<\/i> by David Laskin<br \/>\nAdded to my TBR list based on somebody&#8217;s review&#8211;but unfortunately this was before I started saving the locations of all the reviews that got added to my TBR list.<\/li>\n<li><i>Dave Barry Does Japan<\/i> by Dave Barry<\/li>\n<li><i>Five Aspects of Woman<\/i> by Barbara Mouser<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t end up starting this one last month&#8211;I had so many other books to read, not to mention going to school and teaching.  I plan on starting on this as soon as I&#8217;m done with <i>Forgotten God<\/i><\/li>\n<li>**<i>Forgotten God<\/i> by Francis Chan<br \/>\nSo far, I&#8217;m loving this book about the Holy Spirit.  Check out my notes on the first few chapters<a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/tag\/forgotten-god\"> here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Gentle Art of Domesticity<\/i> by Jane Brocket<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve picked up this blogger&#8217;s book before and enjoyed perusing it&#8211;but didn&#8217;t have time to finish it before I sent it back to the library.  Maybe this time I&#8217;ll get all the way through it.<\/li>\n<li>**<i>Get Married: what women can do to help it happen<\/i> by Candace Watters<br \/>\nI read about this when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2009\/09\/get-married-start-your-family.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie reviewed it<\/a> last fall&#8211;and then essentially forgot about it.  Something or another reminded me of it while I was blog-hopping a week or two back and I figured I&#8217;d ILL it.  It&#8217;s a slightly different perspective than the &#8220;If God wants you to marry, He&#8217;ll land someone in your lap&#8221; perspective so common in the Christian world today.  So far, it&#8217;s quite interesting.<\/li>\n<li><i>Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints<\/i><br \/>\nAfter reading on that <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100411-2316.htm\">human rights treatise disguised as a children&#8217;s book<\/a>, I figured I might look a little deeper at how folk define &#8220;human rights&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><i>Life&#8217;s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness<\/i><br \/>\nA quote book.  I probably like them just a little too much.<\/li>\n<li><i>Nourishing Traditions<\/i> by Sally Fallon<br \/>\nAnother title I&#8217;ve barely had a chance to look at this month.  Since I&#8217;ll likely be just working on thesis this summer (not working or going to school else-wise), I might have a bit of extra time to peruse this cookbook with its extensive nutritional\/ideological sidebars.<\/li>\n<li>**<i>The Occasional Vegetarian<\/i> by Karen Lee<br \/>\nVegetarian recipes for people who aren&#8217;t necessarily anti-meat, but who just want to go meatless more often.  I&#8217;ve made one recipe already&#8211;it was pretty good but a little too fussy for everyday use.  I hope to make a few more recipes before I have to take this title back to the library.<\/li>\n<li>**<i>On Grief and Grieving<\/i> by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler<br \/>\nI read the first few chapters of this book after my mom recommended looking into the stages of grief.  I found the discussion of stages of grieving very helpful.  However, since I&#8217;m not dealing with grief from a death, which the book is primarily geared towards, I&#8217;m not sure if I plan to finish the rest.  For now, it may have served its purpose.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Prodigal God<\/i> by Timothy Keller<br \/>\nAnother one on the TBR list that I can&#8217;t pinpoint the source of.<\/li>\n<li><i>Superhuman<\/i> by Robert Winston and Lori Oliwenstein<br \/>\nIt seems to be a book about how our bodies fight disease&#8211;and about modern medical technology.  It seems especially interesting to me since my brother is in biological systems engineering and works quite a bit with biomedical appliances and the like (currently, he&#8217;s doing some research with adult stem cells.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Juvenile<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children&#8217;s Picture Books author ANDERSON-?<\/li>\n<li><i>The Boy in the Striped Pajamas<\/i> by John Boyne<\/li>\n<li><i>The Deserted Library Mystery<\/i> created by Gertrude Chandler Warner<\/li>\n<li><i>The Shortwave Mystery<\/i> by Franklin Dixon<\/li>\n<li><i>Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow<\/i> by Jessica Day George<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/2226\/whats-on-your-nightstand-april-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/nightstand.jpg\" title=\"What's on Your Nightstand?\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**The asterisks marks books I&#8217;m currently in the middle of.<\/p>\n<p>Drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5minutesforbooks.com\/2226\/whats-on-your-nightstand-april-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Minutes 4 Books<\/a> to see what others are reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again to report the contents of our Nightstands, a la 5 Minutes 4 Books. I was hoping to be able to link up before I left for my interview&#8211;but I s&#8217;pose 6 am is a little early to expect a post to be up by. So enjoy browsing my books and check out &#8230; <a title=\"Nightstand (April 2010)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100427-2070.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightstand (April 2010)<\/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\/2070"}],"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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}