It may be Hump Day to the rest of the world, but to me it’s What We’re Reading Wednesday hosted by Housewife Spice.
Y’all, I am so boring. Whenever I look at anyone else’s reading posts, they are either reading theology or the latest literary best seller. Me, I’m still re-reading Anne of Green Gables books.
If you could see my stack of books-to-be-read (well, you CAN see it, because I’m going to share a picture below!) you would think I was crazy to keep reading things I’ve already read a million times. My husband certainly thinks I am. But 1) I find it comforting and relaxing and 2) I always, always find something new when I re-read a book. In fact, this time I am finding so many new things that I have a sneaking suspicion that some things in this particular edition actually ARE new to me. There’s no way to check that though, since the copies I read almost to pieces are gone. Seriously, though, there is nothing like the thrill of reading the unabridged version of a book you originally read abridged. It’s so delightful to read new things about your favorite characters! Here’s my stack:
This is actually an old picture but the stack has gotten bigger, not smaller. The afghans had to be put away to make more room. How can this be? you ask. Well, a couple of friends gave me boxes and boxes of books because they knew how sad I was about mine all burning up. Then my church has an awesome book swap once a month. Father Ron actually suggested to me last week that maybe I shouldn’t take more books home until I read the ones I already had but that’s not going to happen!
Anyway, I am going to START reading something interesting this week:
I’m participating in a blog tour for the release of the above book in my capacity as one of Beacon Hill Press’s Off the Shelf bloggers. I’m very excited about reading it and writing a reflection on it. I’ve also got to read this:
Because, you see, it’s a library book and I’ve already endangered Emily’s library card by forgetting to return the movie we checked out for the little kids last week. This one is on Lorelei’s card and if I mess her card up I will not be able to go to the library any more until I pay some massive fines. I mean, I’m going to tell them the missing books burned up in a house fire, which is true, but they were already way overdue before that happened so I’m not sure the fire card will work this time.
Finally, here is something I read a couple of weeks ago, that I loved, and am going to review just because I want to when I have a free half hour or so:
I am so proud to know the author of this amazing book. Maggie writes about marriage like no one else. I mean, everything she writes is beautiful but her posts on marriage are my favorite. More on this one later for sure.
I’m not sure whether I will be able to link this post today or not as the hostess is over 40 weeks pregnant, has not put up the post today, and may well be in labor! So I am going to go ahead and put this up since I’ve written it, and I will add the link later if possible. If you want to tell me what you are reading, please share in the comments!