2022 Book Challenge

This year I am challenging myself to read 52 books. Through a friend I was introduced to Reshelving Alexandria. Reshelving Alexandria is a Facebook group for lovers of good, true, and beautiful books. All of the 52 books have a specific requirement. For example, A book that shows both sides of a conflict, or A book published in the Year of the Tiger. A fun challenge! For A Book That Includes a Bookstore or Library I read, "The Last Bookshop in London." 

I loved this quote and had to share.

"Reading is..." His brows knit together and then his forehead smoothed as the right words appeared to dawn on him. "It's going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It's living a life you weren't born into and a chance to see everything colored by someone else's perspective. It's learning without having to face consequences of failures, and how best to succeed." He hesitated. "I think within all of us, there is a void, a gap waiting to be filled by something. for me, that something is books and all their proffered experiences."

I am so enjoying each and every book I have read. I am going to have to learn how to pace myself and restrain myself because all I want to do it READ! So far I have read,

Life in a Jar

by Jack Mayer

Wonder Struck

by Brian Selznick

The Last Bookshop in London

by Madeline Martin

Watership Down

by Richard Adams

The Red Badge of Courage

(reading this aloud to my daughter)

by Stephen Crane

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

and I am currently reading

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande

A Mother's Prayer

I am unsure of the Painter. 

 "Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul ...to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." 

J.R. Miller, Homemaking