April 2014 Reads
It seems similar I only reviewed the books I read dorsum inwards March. Oh wait. I did. Apr together with the craziness of testing together with the absence of Spring Break left me with much less fourth dimension to eat literature. I somehow nonetheless managed to read 10 books during the calendar month to pick out my total of books read during 2014 to 47.
Back inwards January, I emptied off a shelf on a bookshelf to solid the books I read this year. That shelf is no longer empty! It's non also total either. That's what I acquire for utilizing my world library. Here are the books I accept read this yr that I ain copies of.
Technically, I shouldn't fifty-fifty demand to see the library. I accept enough of my ain books to read. I currently accept iii bookshelves at my house, 1 rather large bookshelf at my parents' house, together with a bookshelf inwards my classroom. Yes, I may accept a slight addiction to books. My household unit of measurement has joked virtually this obsession of mine since I was a kid. My dad has ever said that when I move, I'm going to demand an entire U-Haul trailer only to comport my books. And, my mom has advised that I get hitched with a carpenter together with thus that he tin terminate construct me bookshelves.
Lock together with Key by Sarah Dessen
I started off the calendar month yesteryear picking upward a immature adult novel at the library. One of my students recommended this writer to me final year. While meandering downwardly the library shelves, I flora this immature adult majority stuck inwards with the adult fiction. Recognizing the writer from educatee recommendation, I decided it was a sign that I needed to read this book! This was a fairly quick read. It tells the flush of Ruby, a high schoolhouse educatee who is abandoned yesteryear her mother. She tries together with fails to last on her own. And, she shortly finds herself with a novel school, novel town, together with novel family. It was interesting to read virtually the high schoolhouse experience straight off that I am a high schoolhouse teacher.
The Locket by Richard Paul Evans
Technically, I read the sequel to this majority final month. But, I really read them inwards chronological order, together with thus I don't think it really mattered. This is the 2d Richard Paul Evans novel I accept read that is laid partially inwards a nursing home. As the novel progresses, the reader uncovers the flush of Michael together with his human relationship that is complicated yesteryear money together with social standing together with the flush of Esther, his patient, who is total of regret over her yesteryear decisions. The flush was beautiful together with heartbreaking. It was definitely a tear jerker.
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
I really started this majority final year, but it got position downwardly together with forgotten about. It had been together with thus long since I started it that I had to start dorsum over from the rattling beginning. Oops... My senior students are currently reading Tuesdays With Morrie inwards their English linguistic communication class. I read that majority my senior year, too. And, I tin terminate definitely run across some parallels betwixt the two. In a way, I think I mightiness accept liked this majority fifty-fifty meliorate than the erstwhile because the ending wasn't quite every bit predictable. Plus, it's 1 of those books that keeps you lot guessing for a skilful spell every bit it tells you lot the flush of a Jewish Rabbi together with a drug addict together with you lot can't figure out how their stories volition ever cross. I'd definitely recommend this book!
The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson
After reading keen reviews of this majority on several blogs, I had to alternative it upward afterward finding it for sale at Mardel for 5 dollars. The majority begins with the flush of Honi, a human being who draws a circle inwards the basis together with prays a life-changing prayer. Prayer is 1 of the Christian disciplines that I scrap with the most. It has never came easily to me, together with my perfectionistic self tin terminate tend to surrender on prayer because I experience similar I must non live doing it right. This writer of this majority relates praying to marching around Jericho. And, this mental prototype has had an amazing touching on on my prayer life. This majority is genuinely changing how I pray, together with I experience similar God has done a major run inwards my life through this book. I'd definitely give this majority 5 stars!
In retrospect, I should accept only drenched this majority inwards highlighter fluid from the start. It would accept saved me a lot of fourth dimension highlighting! :) Almost every single page of my re-create looks similar this:
Where Have All the Good Men Gone? by A.J. Kiesling
Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
Confession time. I'm non the best housekeeper. I hold off to produce laundry until I'm almost out of bathroom towels. Sometimes, I don't produce dishes until I run out of spoons or forks. I brand lots of excuses. When I come upward abode from a long twenty-four lx minutes menstruum of teaching, the final thing I desire to produce is laundry or dishes. So, instead, I cease upward spending most of my weekend doing what I accept position off the previous week. Not smart. I know. This majority is all virtually how to laid upward daily routines that allow you lot to proceed your solid cook clean during the week. Now that I've read the book, I demand to really start applying the principles to my life. This is an inspiring read. Now, I only demand to follow its advice!
When God Winks at You by SQuire Rushnell
I picked upward this majority at Goodwill for a dollar. It's a brusk majority of stories of the amazing means that God tin terminate run through coincidences. This is a feel-good book. If you're doubting that God cares or that God acts inwards the life of his people, read this book!
Cat by V.C. Andrews
In the quaternary calendar month of the year, I read the quaternary majority inwards The Wildflowers series. If I read the final majority inwards May, I volition live done with this serial forever! As I've written before, this is non a serial I would recommend. But, I've invested together with thus much fourth dimension inwards reading them, I accept to figure out what happens! These books disclose the personal lives together with secrets of iv teenagers who cease upward inwards court-appointed therapy. The themes inwards the books are night together with depressing. This majority provided some promise together with a to a greater extent than up-beat mental attitude towards the end. I promise that upbeat mental attitude is carried through to the final majority inwards the series.
Back inwards January, I emptied off a shelf on a bookshelf to solid the books I read this year. That shelf is no longer empty! It's non also total either. That's what I acquire for utilizing my world library. Here are the books I accept read this yr that I ain copies of.
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Lock together with Key by Sarah Dessen
I started off the calendar month yesteryear picking upward a immature adult novel at the library. One of my students recommended this writer to me final year. While meandering downwardly the library shelves, I flora this immature adult majority stuck inwards with the adult fiction. Recognizing the writer from educatee recommendation, I decided it was a sign that I needed to read this book! This was a fairly quick read. It tells the flush of Ruby, a high schoolhouse educatee who is abandoned yesteryear her mother. She tries together with fails to last on her own. And, she shortly finds herself with a novel school, novel town, together with novel family. It was interesting to read virtually the high schoolhouse experience straight off that I am a high schoolhouse teacher.
The Locket by Richard Paul Evans
Technically, I read the sequel to this majority final month. But, I really read them inwards chronological order, together with thus I don't think it really mattered. This is the 2d Richard Paul Evans novel I accept read that is laid partially inwards a nursing home. As the novel progresses, the reader uncovers the flush of Michael together with his human relationship that is complicated yesteryear money together with social standing together with the flush of Esther, his patient, who is total of regret over her yesteryear decisions. The flush was beautiful together with heartbreaking. It was definitely a tear jerker.
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
I really started this majority final year, but it got position downwardly together with forgotten about. It had been together with thus long since I started it that I had to start dorsum over from the rattling beginning. Oops... My senior students are currently reading Tuesdays With Morrie inwards their English linguistic communication class. I read that majority my senior year, too. And, I tin terminate definitely run across some parallels betwixt the two. In a way, I think I mightiness accept liked this majority fifty-fifty meliorate than the erstwhile because the ending wasn't quite every bit predictable. Plus, it's 1 of those books that keeps you lot guessing for a skilful spell every bit it tells you lot the flush of a Jewish Rabbi together with a drug addict together with you lot can't figure out how their stories volition ever cross. I'd definitely recommend this book!
The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson
After reading keen reviews of this majority on several blogs, I had to alternative it upward afterward finding it for sale at Mardel for 5 dollars. The majority begins with the flush of Honi, a human being who draws a circle inwards the basis together with prays a life-changing prayer. Prayer is 1 of the Christian disciplines that I scrap with the most. It has never came easily to me, together with my perfectionistic self tin terminate tend to surrender on prayer because I experience similar I must non live doing it right. This writer of this majority relates praying to marching around Jericho. And, this mental prototype has had an amazing touching on on my prayer life. This majority is genuinely changing how I pray, together with I experience similar God has done a major run inwards my life through this book. I'd definitely give this majority 5 stars!
In retrospect, I should accept only drenched this majority inwards highlighter fluid from the start. It would accept saved me a lot of fourth dimension highlighting! :) Almost every single page of my re-create looks similar this:
Where Have All the Good Men Gone? by A.J. Kiesling
This majority wasn't what I expected. My life hasn't gone just how I expected, either. I ever assumed I would become to college together with move out with a teaching score together with a MRS degree. Only 1 of those came to pass. So, straight off I'm 24, unmarried, together with living inwards a tiny town inwards rural Oklahoma that doesn't fifty-fifty accept a stoplight. This wasn't my plan, but it's God's plan. And, I accept to trust that he knows just what he's doing. Over the yesteryear few months, my eyes accept been opened to several things inwards my electrical current life that wouldn't accept been possible had my plans succeeded. Though I'm living a life I didn't expect, I'm also blessed beyond imagination. And, I demand to focus on the latter instead of the former. Okay. Back to the book. I was expecting a majority that told me how to laid for matrimony or how to position myself on the path to marriage. Instead, I flora an analysis of a survey of singles that was completed yesteryear the author. Single men together with women answered questions regarding what they were looking for inwards matrimony together with what they felt was belongings them dorsum from marriage. I flora myself relating to much of it. And, I was surprised yesteryear the manlike individual perspective of certainly actions yesteryear females. It was an interesting together with informative read.
Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
Confession time. I'm non the best housekeeper. I hold off to produce laundry until I'm almost out of bathroom towels. Sometimes, I don't produce dishes until I run out of spoons or forks. I brand lots of excuses. When I come upward abode from a long twenty-four lx minutes menstruum of teaching, the final thing I desire to produce is laundry or dishes. So, instead, I cease upward spending most of my weekend doing what I accept position off the previous week. Not smart. I know. This majority is all virtually how to laid upward daily routines that allow you lot to proceed your solid cook clean during the week. Now that I've read the book, I demand to really start applying the principles to my life. This is an inspiring read. Now, I only demand to follow its advice!
When God Winks at You by SQuire Rushnell
I picked upward this majority at Goodwill for a dollar. It's a brusk majority of stories of the amazing means that God tin terminate run through coincidences. This is a feel-good book. If you're doubting that God cares or that God acts inwards the life of his people, read this book!
If you lot would accept asked me a duo of months ago, I would accept told you lot that I read this majority every bit a child. I late learned that I really didn't. I did read Number The Stars, though, yesteryear the same author. So, how did I come upward to alternative upward this book? I'm glad you lot asked! It all starts with solid set down standardized testing. During our planning periods, nosotros were oftentimes called out to proctor tests for our exceptional didactics students. During my firstly proctoring session, I grabbed a magazine off the tabular array inwards the classroom. As I read the effect of Redbook, I flora it interesting that the magazine was reviewing the motion-picture demo Elizabethtown
. I asked myself, "Hasn't that been out for a long time?" In the article on budgeting, the writer recommended that the struggling duo cancel their jail cellular telephone phone to preserve money. At this point, I flipped to the front end embrace to realize that I was reading a magazine from 2005! 2005! I speedily vowed that I would pick out my ain reading cloth the side yesteryear side fourth dimension I proctored.
. I asked myself, "Hasn't that been out for a long time?" In the article on budgeting, the writer recommended that the struggling duo cancel their jail cellular telephone phone to preserve money. At this point, I flipped to the front end embrace to realize that I was reading a magazine from 2005! 2005! I speedily vowed that I would pick out my ain reading cloth the side yesteryear side fourth dimension I proctored. Well, the side yesteryear side twenty-four lx minutes menstruum I was scheduled to proctor, I almost forgot virtually it. By the fourth dimension I remembered, I had to rush downwardly to the exceptional ed teacher's room to salve some other proctor. Again, I flora myself without anything to proceed me occupied. After ruling out the outdated magazines, I turned to the shelf of textbooks. I grabbed a re-create of The Giver together with read the dorsum cover. It didn't seem familiar, together with thus I sat downwardly together with pigeon inwards the book. I speedily flora myself sucked into the story. I was almost distressing when the educatee finished their examination because it meant that I couldn't rest together with read anymore. The exceptional ed instructor gladly allowed me to borrow the book. The majority is laid inwards an alone dissimilar fourth dimension together with world, but you're non told that from the beginning. Instead, you lot accept to discovery just how the basis plant together with how it came to run that means for yourself. It's been a long fourth dimension since I was this sucked inwards yesteryear a book. My only electrical load would the ending. I'm the type that loves a definitive ending addition an epilogue that updates me on what happens to the characters xv years downwardly the road. Yeah, this majority didn't render that... :( But, I'd nonetheless recommend this majority inwards a heartbeat!
Maybe I should only telephone telephone these posts confessionals instead of majority reviews. Confession time. I justice books yesteryear their covers. If I honey a book's title, I'm much to a greater extent than apt to alternative it up. This book's championship was yelling at me from the shelves at Goodwill. As I wrote above, I'm non just certainly what God is doing during this flavor of singleness inwards my life. A lot of days, I don't run across his plan. Instead, I run across how most of my friends from college accept tied the knot together with are starting to think virtually children. My facebook newsfeed is total of babies together with nuptials pictures, together with I experience left out sometimes. Okay, a lot of times.
Yet, I know God is at work. I know God has a plan. I only can't run across his excogitation correct now. Twenty or 30 years from now, I volition live able to aspect dorsum together with grin because things volition accept happened that were only made possible through this electrical current confusing season. This is the flush of Nadine Hennesey. She met a guy inwards college, got married, together with they decided to start a family. Before their missy was born, he died suddenly. Her entire basis was turned upside down. God used this tragedy to motion her together with her missy overseas to run with orphaned children. And, they changed thousands of lives that would accept never been impacted had her master copy excogitation for her life worked out. This majority was a beautiful reminder that God knows what is best. He has a plan. And, that excogitation is to a greater extent than perfect together with beautiful than nosotros tin terminate ever realize.
Cat by V.C. Andrews
In the quaternary calendar month of the year, I read the quaternary majority inwards The Wildflowers series. If I read the final majority inwards May, I volition live done with this serial forever! As I've written before, this is non a serial I would recommend. But, I've invested together with thus much fourth dimension inwards reading them, I accept to figure out what happens! These books disclose the personal lives together with secrets of iv teenagers who cease upward inwards court-appointed therapy. The themes inwards the books are night together with depressing. This majority provided some promise together with a to a greater extent than up-beat mental attitude towards the end. I promise that upbeat mental attitude is carried through to the final majority inwards the series.
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