Books Read
Click here for newest entriesRatings Guide: 0 to 5 ★s reflects how much I liked it (worst to best); 0 to 3 ☢s represents a content advisory (mildest to strongest).
2010
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall ★★ ☢☢
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ★ ☢☢☢
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ★★★★
- It Happened in Italy by Elizabeth Bettina ★★
- Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton ★★★★★
- Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfeild ★★★★★
- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★★
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan ★★★★★
- The Selfless Gene by Charles Foster ★★★
- Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto ★★★★★
- Just Courage (audio book) by Gary Haugen ★★★
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe ★★
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ★★★★★
- Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers ★★★★
- Homeschooling for the Rest of Us by Sonya Haskins ★★★★
- The Brothers Karamazov (audio book, abridged) by Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★ ☢
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan ★★★★★
- Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft ★★★★
- The Philosophy of Tolkien by Peter Kreeft ★★★★
- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson ★★★★ Unrealistic, but a delightful vision and a fun book.
- The Abernathy Boys by L. J. Hunt ★★★★ Hard to believe this was published in 2004—no cussing worse than "Aunt Annie's fanny!" A little hard on the girls, but the author does his best while being true to the times. A book for Free Range Kids.
- The Gobblestone School by Jacob Schriftman ★★
- Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson ★★★★★
- The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge ★★★★ ☢☢
- In Tune with the World by Josef Pieper ★★★★★
- Food Rules by Michael Pollan ★★★ If this is the only one of Pollan's food books you read, it rates five stars. I give it three because In Defense of Food is better.
- Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov ★★★
- Stained Glass Elegies by Shusaku Endo ★★★
- Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection by Isaac Asimov ★★★
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ★★★ ☢
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card ★★
- Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI by Scott W. Hahn ★★★
- Common Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist ★★★
- Getting Things Done by David Allen ★★ The content rates three stars, or maybe more; I won't know till I've worked with his ideas. The book itself only rates two, however.
- The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer ★★★★ (Review to come)
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