Here's a list of the books I've read lately. Instead of falling asleep the minute I start to read I've been flying through the most amazing books. I'd love to write reviews of all of them - maybe I'll have the time to eventually. But for now, you can consider all of these super-double-extra recommended.
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer
The Hospital by Jan de Hartog
The Peaceable Kingdom by Jan de Hartog
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis (in process right now)
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
About me
I'm 43, and yes, that is a good age. Attorney, mom and wife: 3 full-time jobs, which makes me jack of all trades, master of none. I like it. Two boys, 13 and 10, otherwise known here as One and Two, just to keep things simple. Husband? He is the inspiration for the title of this blog. He works 14 hour days, to which I can only say: I'm incredibly grateful he doesn't work weekends.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
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--- Roy Chapman Andrews
“Time is a treasure that melts away. It escapes us, slipping through our fingers like water through the mountain rocks. Tomorrow will soon be another yesterday. Our lives are so very short. Yesterday has gone and today is passing by. But what a great deal can be done for the love of God in this short space of time!”
--- Josemaria Escriva
"Do all in your power not to fall, for strong athletes should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times ... rise up again each time, and keep on doing this until the day of your death. For it is written, "If a righteous man falls seven times' - that is repeatedly throughout his life - seven times 'shall he rise again.'"
--- Saint John of Karpathos
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- Bad Books Make for Poor Readers
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Things to check out
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- The Need for Beauty
- Booklist
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- Vroom Vroom!
- Happy Birthday Meg!!!!
- Let's Kill All the Lawyers
- I WON!
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- I'm Old
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2 comments:
hi tari!
oh my gosh i *loved* till we have faces!
i haven't met very many others who have read it... i can't believe it was written by a man, speaks so deeply to women.
love to chat about it sometime, do you always go to church in the pm?
~j~
I'd love to talk about it too! It is so amazing. I'm a little more than 1/2 way right now, but I can't put it down once I start reading so I should be done soon.
We will be at evening church this weekend and then next weekend we will be at 11 and evening service, since I'm working with the 2 year olds at 11am.
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