Since last month’s Nightstand post, here’s what I’ve read:
- A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery
- Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend edited by Ravi Zacharias (unfinished)
- Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
- The Shadow of Ghadames by Joëlle Stolz
- Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren F. Winner
- Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
- Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane
- The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure (review forthcoming)
- Organized Simplicity (ebook) by Tsh Oxenreider (If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get this Kindle edition, which is linked below, for free right now!)
- Mindset for Moms (ebook) by Jamie Martin
I didn’t actually read every word of Organized Simplicity because when I got to the bit about actually putting the philosophy into practice through cleaning and decluttering, I realized that I didn’t have time to do it then. 
However, I wanted to note it here because it’s a great, simple (of course!), motivational book that I hope to come back to soon. I read Mindset for Moms quickly, but I’ve started back over, meditating on the points and trying to put some of them into practice. I highly recommend both of these books, as well as the blogs Simple Mom, Steady Mom, and Simple Homeschool (well, all the Simple blogs, really), which are the authors’ online homes. {And that’s possibly all the review of those two books I’ll do here! 
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My girls and I (and we usually include the DLM, too, but I’m not sure he appreciates it 
) finished up a couple of chapter books in the past month, too:
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia by Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher (review forthcoming)
I started a new little bloggy thing here at the beginning of the year, and I thought it would be fun to include it in my Nightstand posts. I started taking a picture of (most of) the books the girls and I read each week and blogging the picture in a This Week in Books post. This is a collage of this month’s pictures:
Pretty neat, huh?
This month we also finished up the Armchair Cybils challenge and I started a new bloggy project in honor of my birthday. It has been a bookish month!
I have a few books I hope to get to next month. I’m currently reading Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley, a birthday gift from my dear mother-in-law that she says is a must-read. I hope I can finally get to Lit!: A Christian’s Guide to Reading Books by Tony Reinke. 
I also hope to muster up enough brain cells, attention, and time to read The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan for the Reading to Know Bookclub. I’m also intrigued by this read-aloud at Book Club Girl. Although I’m unfamiliar with the Bess Crawford mysteries, Elizabeth got my attention with her post at 5 Minutes for Books about the series by mentioning Downton Abbey, which is the first television show I’ve watched in a long, long, long time. I’m hooked.
What a blessing to is to have so many excellent books available to me and the time and interest to pursue them!
What’s on your nightstand this month?
I just finished The Wilder Life yesterday and hope to have a review up some time today or possibly tomorrow morning. I’ll enjoy comparing notes with you!
Thanks for the heads-up on Organized Simplicity.
I wish I had gotten involved in Downton Abbey from the beginning. But maybe I can check into it before the next season starts.
I probably should read Pilgrim’s Progress again. I’ve read it before, I can’t remember how many times, so I feel like I know it pretty well, yet I am sure there are sections I’ve forgotten and I would be blessed by even the familiar passages again.
I love Simple Mom, I’ve been meaning to read her new book! Great list – I’m reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie right now.
I’ve been watching Downton as well. And am hoping to finally read Lit this month.
You ARE a busy blogger!!
Right now I’m reading A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller and Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi. I have Bloodlines by John Piper waiting to be read. Lit is also on my list.
Oh! Do the Bess Crawford thing with me! I haven’t read any of the books yet, but I did really like “The Confession” by the same authors.
And your stacks of books are MOST impressive
elizabeth from 5 Minutes for Books
I always enjoy your “This Week in Books” posts!
Lit! was GREAT!
I hate that I haven’t watched Downtown Abbey, since everyone seems to love it so much!
You have a great list of books here! I wish I could absorb every book that I come across! When life evens out for me a bit I will be back to go over your reviews and add to my list! Thanks!
I am hoping to read Lit! sometime soon. It is sitting in my Amazon cart just waiting to be ordered.
I have Organized Simplicity on my Kindle. I started reading the beginning, but found several of her thoughts on simplicity irritating (I know, I’m weird). I think I’ll skip to a little later to the actual organizing ideas and read through them.
Laughing about you recommending all of the Simple Blogs. ;D I keep seeing Organized Simplicity pop up. I’m starting to feel like I should read it! Like NOW.
I’m really looking forward to diving back into Pilgrim’s Progress although I wonder if it’s considered cheating to find myself a copy of the book in modern english.
I love your This Week in Books photos! So fun.
I also want to read Lit!. It’s a book I actually have to purchase though as my library doesn’t carry it!
Happy March reading!
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