Since I did a list yesterday, I thought I'd do another one today. I'm more into my books than my blog right now so time is limited. Here's what I have checked out right now from our fabulous St. Cloud library:
Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest by Wayne Muller
jamie at home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life by Jamie Oliver
Home Education: Training and educating children under nine by Charlotte M. Mason
Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola
Real Food for Dogs by Arden Moore
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Knitting for Peace by Betty Christiansen
The Slow Cooker Ready and Waiting Cookbook by Rich Rodgers
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two by Beth Hensperger
The Celtic Way of Seeing: Meditations on the Irish Spirit Wheel by Frank MacEowen
Felt Wee Folk: Enchanting Projects by Salley Mavor
Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses by Michelle Skye
Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas by Bill McKibben
Kids' Embroidery: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Kristin Nicholas
and finally, reward for the longest title goes to:
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party) by Rod Dreher
I really like the last book, just finished it. Not that I've gone Republican, but I'm certainly pretty conservative in a lot of ways. And I'm definitely crunchy! I like what Dreher has to say, a lot.
I've read most of those books, or at least looked through them, and I can say I'd recommend them all. Sorry I'm not going to give links, that takes too much time. But do look up the ones that appeal to you!
Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest by Wayne Muller
jamie at home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life by Jamie Oliver
Home Education: Training and educating children under nine by Charlotte M. Mason
Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola
Real Food for Dogs by Arden Moore
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Knitting for Peace by Betty Christiansen
The Slow Cooker Ready and Waiting Cookbook by Rich Rodgers
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two by Beth Hensperger
The Celtic Way of Seeing: Meditations on the Irish Spirit Wheel by Frank MacEowen
Felt Wee Folk: Enchanting Projects by Salley Mavor
Goddess Afoot!: Practicing Magic with Celtic & Norse Goddesses by Michelle Skye
Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas by Bill McKibben
Kids' Embroidery: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Kristin Nicholas
and finally, reward for the longest title goes to:
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party) by Rod Dreher
I really like the last book, just finished it. Not that I've gone Republican, but I'm certainly pretty conservative in a lot of ways. And I'm definitely crunchy! I like what Dreher has to say, a lot.
I've read most of those books, or at least looked through them, and I can say I'd recommend them all. Sorry I'm not going to give links, that takes too much time. But do look up the ones that appeal to you!
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P.S.--Having read your book list, I have concluded that we might possibly be long-lost soul mates. Just wanted to let you know. :)
What's even more strange is that I'm currently teaching English lang./lit. to a home schooled girl whose name is Zahn. This could get strange!
*cue Twilight Zone music*
I just started reading your blog, and I love it. Just wanted to say hi and thanks for the inadvertent book rec.!
If you are interested I can mail it to you, along with some other Asperger's books I bought at the time, but don't reference. I think the other ones are geared toward the child. If I recall, the Attwood book was expensive, so I would like it to go somewhere where it's useful. They are all new and unread, just past the time to return for refund.
You can email me at crunchychickenblog@gmail.com if you are interested.
Knitting for Peace? will check that out, never heard of it.
Erm, that last one.... makes me worried..... lol
Besides, we live in a very conservative area, and so so many of our fellow homeschoolers are conservative that I really want to find our common ground so we can form friendships. I need to do that for my sanity around here!
And thanks for the comments, Kelsie and fullfreezer. Kelsie, so good to know I have a long lost soulmate out there!
fullfreezer, being you're in Iowa, I know you're surrounded by conservatives--whether you are one or not I don't know--so you might as well read that book and have something to talk about!
Judy
I love all the organic gardening in NE Iowa. But we're getting more of it in Central MN, too. Yay!
Wow. Got me and DH pegged. Except I have no intention of doing anything for the Pepublican party except say "I told ya so". ;)
~Tara
I also have two slow cooker books checked out right now (The Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes and I forget the other one off hand).
I wonder if the "evangelical free-range farmer" is Polyface Farm?
What a rockin' library you have! We had a big one in NY, but the one here is soooo tiny! It's shocking. Of course I can go to the university library, but then that's a bit too big. All I want is juuuust right!
CA was striped: liberal coast, conservative inland. NY was spotted: liberal college towns and NYC, and conservative everywhere else. Idaho is one big red state, except for my county!
But then I really don't much like these false dichotomies either. Seems like we need to disregard all that to really fix things.
Our library is rockin'! We're just 6 blocks from the headquarters library of our entire region. I don't know how many libraries are in the system, but it's a lot and we can order up any book we want from any of them. There's more than 20 I think, and by far our town's is the largest (we're the largest town, at about 65,000 plus "suburbs").