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I'm Currently Reading...
- Essentialism: the Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown
- Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds - Kelly Turner
- Eat Dirt - Josh Axe
- Tox-Sick - Suzanne Sommers
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Books I'd Like to Read
- The Grave Robber - Mark Batterson
- Simplify - Bill Hybels
- What to Eat - Marion Nestle
- The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
- The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- What are People For? - Wendell Berry
- Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas & Found Happiness - Dominique Browning
- If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering & Evil - Randy Alcorn
Word of Life Book Group Reads
- Everybody Always - Bob Goff
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- The Case for Grace - Lee Strobel
- Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
- The Orphan Keeper - Camron Wright
- The Rent Collector - Camron Wright
- Miracle for Jen - Linda Barrick
- Gaining Ground - Forrest Prittchard
- The Abbey - James Martin, SJ
- Walk to Beautiful - Jimmy Wayne
- Jesus, A Pilgrimage - James Martin, SJ
- The Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
- Unlikely Angel - Ashley Smith
- Notes From a Blue Bike - Tsh Oxenreider
- Crickets & Thunder - Karen Judd Low
- The Guernsey & Literary Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer & Barrows
- Love Anthony - Lisa Genova
- Kisses from Katie - Katie Davis with Beth Clark
- In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day - Mark Batterson
- Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive - Joyce Meyer
- Help, Thanks, Wow - Ann Lamott
- One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp
- Crazy Love - Francis Chan
- Radical - David Platt
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
- Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
- Heaven - Randy Alcorn
Books Read in 2020
- The Blueberry Years - Jim Minick
- Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joey and Hard Times - Jennifer Worth
Books Read in 2019
- The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Love Does by Bob Goff
Movies Worth Watching 2019
- A Dog's Purpose
- I Can Only Imagine
- Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
- Peter Rabbit
Books Read in 2018
- Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
- Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up - Daphne Miller
Movies Worth Watching 2018
- Peter Rabbit
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Books Read in 2017
- Farmacology - Daphne Miller, M.D.
- Capital Gaines - Chip Gaines
- Sonoma Rose - Jennifer Chiaverini
- This Life I Live - Rory Feek
- The Magnolia Story - Chip and Joanna Gaines
Movies Worth Watching 2017
- 100 Foot Journey
Books Read in 2016
- Seams Unlikely - Nancy Zieman
- The Wedding Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Gaining Ground - Forrest Prittchard
Books Read in 2015
- The Circle Maker - Mark Batterson
- The Magic Art of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
- A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty - Joni Eareckson Tada
- The Giving Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Second Sister - Marie Bostwick
- Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
- Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
- Chasing Francis - Ian Morgan Cron
- The Quilter's Kitchen - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The New Year's Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
Julia's Book Group Reads
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
- Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- My Life in France by Child & Prud'homme
Books Read in 2014
- The Winding Ways Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Circle of Quilters - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Apart at the Seams - Marie Bostwick
- The Christmas Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Quilter's Homecoming - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Sugar Camp Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Daniel Plan - Warren, Amen, & Hyman
- All In - Mark Batterson
- Greater - Steven Furtick
- Making Piece - a Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie - Beth Howard
- French Kids Eat Everything - Karen Le Billon
- Food Rules - Michael Pollan
- Eat with Joy, Redeeming God's Gift of Food - Rachel Marie Stone
- Almost Amish - Nancy Sleeth
- Wide Open Spaces - Jim Palmer (2nd time)
- The Fiddler - Beverly Lewis
- The Mercy - Beverly Lewis
- Being Jesus in Nashville - Jim Palmer
- Divine Nobodies - Jim Palmer
- In the Company of Others - Jan Karon
Books Read in 2013
- ID: The True You - Mark Batterson
- In a Pit with a Lion on a Snow Day - Mark Batterson (2X!)
- Between Heaven and Texas - Marie Bostwick
- An Invisible Thread - Laura Schroff
- Ties That Bind - Marie Bostwick
- Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander
- Epitaph for a Peach - David Masamuto
- Cross Roads - Wm. Paul Young
- Organic Manifesto - Maria Rodale
- Wide Open Spaces, Beyond Paint by Number Christianity - Jim Palmer
- 29 Gifts - Cami Walker
Movies Worth Watching 2013
- Saving Mr. Banks
Books Read in 2012
- Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert
- 50 Days of Hope - Lynn Eib
- Invitation to Solitude and Silence - Ruth Haley Barton
- 50 Days of Heaven - Randy Alcorn
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
- The Red Sea Rules - Robert J. Morgan
- When God Interrupts - M. Craig Barnes
- Still Alice - Lisa Genova
- I Do Again - Cheryl & Jeff Scruggs
- Girl Meets God - Lauren F. Winner
- The Forgiveness Project - Michael S. Barry
- Jesus Mean and Wild - Mark Galli
- Inspiring Thoughts for Gardeners - Barbour Publishing
- French Women Don't Get Fat - Mireille Guiliano
- The School of Essential Ingredients (2nd time) - Erica Bauermeister
- One Thousand Gifts (2nd time) - Ann Voskamp
- In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
- Crazy Love - Francis Chan
- The Land Between - Jeff Manion
Movies Worth Watching 2012
- The Help
Favorite Devotionals
- Praying Through Cancer
- He Cares New Testament (NLT)
- Come Away My Beloved
Favorite Magazines
- Organic Gardening
- Country Living
- Better Homes & Gardens
- Martha Stewart Living
- American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine
Favorite Reads
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
- The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
- Anything by Michael Pollan
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer & Barrows
- The Shack - William Paul Young
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
- Hearing God - Larry Kreider
- The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
- Sacred Marriage - Gary Thomas
- Trusting God - Jerry Bridges
- What if I Kissed Marriage Goodbye - Carolyn McCulley
Favorite Movies
- Julie & Julia
- Miss Potter
- Cinderella Man
Grrrr List
- Cell Phone Etiquette
- Arrogant Doctors
- Oprah's Influence
- Politics
- Crappy Customer Service
- Rabbits!
Bucket List
- Country Living Fair
Books Read in 2011
- Joy for Beginners - Erica Bauermeister
- The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
- The Master Quilter - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Same Kind of Different as Me - Ron Hall & Denver Moore
- Threading the Needle - Marie Bostwick
- The Quilter's Legacy - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Runaway Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Cross-Country Quilters - Jennifer Chiaverini
- A Thread so Thin - Marie Bostwick
- Round Robin - Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Quilter's Apprentice - Jennifer Chiaverini
- A Single Thread - Marie Bostwick
- A Thread of Truth - Marie Bostwick
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Sacred Parenting - Gary Thomas
- Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
- In a Heartbeat - Leigh Anne & Sean Tuohy
- Bread Upon the Waters - Peter Reinhart
- Trusting God (4th time!) - Jerry Bridges
- Lost Women of the Bible - Carolyn Custis James
- Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening - Cynthia Bourgeault
- Love, Medicine & Miracles - Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
- The Emotionally Destructive Relationship - Leslie Vernick
- Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy - Leslie Vernick
- He Loves Me: Learning to Live in the Father's Affection - Wayne Jacobsen
- One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp
- All New Square Foot Gardening - Mel Bartholomew
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer & Barrows
- Heaven - Randy Alcorn
- Totto-Chan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
- Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
- The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
- The Shack (2nd time) - William P. Young
Movies Worth Watching 2011
- Larry Crowne
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Bella
- Shadowlands
Books Read in 2010
- The Goodness of God - Randy Alcorn
- So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore - Jacobsen & Coleman
- Choosing to See - Mary Beth Chapman
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2nd time) - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
- Trevor's Song - T.A. Beam
- Why I Stayed - Gayle Haggard
- How to Pick a Peach - Russ Parsons
- My Life in France - Child & Prud'Homme
- Unashamed - Francine Rivers
- Cure for the Common Life - Max Lucado
Movies Worth Watching 2010
- Food, Inc.
- Faith Like Potatoes
- Gifted Hands
Books Read in 2009
- A Season for Hope - Michael S. Barry
- The Art of Caregiving - Michael S. Barry
- A Reason for Hope - Michael S. Barry
- Home To Holly Springs - Jan Karon
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
- Sacred Pathways - Gary Thomas
- Completely His - Shannon Ethridge
- Hope Beyond Reason - Dave Hess
- Lament for a Son - Nicholas Wolterstorff
- The File - Anita Keagy
- When God & Grief Meet - Lynn Eib
- SuperFoods Rx - Pratt & Matthews
Books Read in 2008
- The Shack - Wm. Paul Young
- Finding the Light in Cancer's Shadow - Lynn Eib
- When God & Cancer Meet - Lynn Eib
- Don't Sing Songs to a Heavy Heart - Kenneth Haugk
- A Different Kind of Miracle - Emilie Barnes
- No More HRT: Menopause, Treat the Cause - Jensen & Vanderhaeghe
- Suffering and the Sovereignty of God - John Piper
- Mistaken Identity - Van Ryn & Cerak
Books Read in 2007
- What Cancer Cannot Do - Phyllis Ten Elshof
- There's No Place Like Hope - Vickie Girard
- Mitford Series - Jan Karon
- Numerous Beverly Lewis books (My brain couldn't handle anything heavier than that most of the summer!)
- 90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
- It's Not About Me - Max Lucado
- Trusting God (for the 3rd time!!) - Jerry Bridges
- If You Want to Walk on Water You've Got to Get Out of the Boat - John Ortberg
- For Women Only - Shaunti Feldhahn
- For Men Only - Shaunti Feldhahn
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Books Read in 2017
- The Magnolia Story - Chip and Joanna Gaines
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