summer reading

This afternoon was a perfectly rainy, summer day for reading. There was thunder in the distance and the pitter-patter of rain against my window. The clouds were heavy and dark and my room was silent and dim with a candle lit on top of my bookshelf. I dragged my cream wing chair to face the window and snuggled down for one of my favorite summer pasttimes. So lovely.

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At the beginning of summer, I made myself a rather daunting book list. 30 books. The summer's end is nearing and I am still quite far from finishing all 30, but I plan to continue on with these books until I do finish them...hopefully sometime in September or October.
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• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Prince Capsian by C.S. Lewis
• The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwell
• Why We're Not Emergent (by Two Guys Who Should Be) by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
• The Complete Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
• The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy by Colleen Carroll
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
• Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
• Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
• The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-esteem and High Standards by Wendy Shalit
• Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs
• Confessions by St. Augustine
• Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule
• The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
• Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
• Citizens by Simon Schama
• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
• Theology: The Basic Readings by Alister E. McGrath
• Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy
• The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule
• Pensees by Blaise Pascal

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"There is no Frigate like a book,
To take me lands away..."
(Emily Dickinson)
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oh, the joy of a good book, a quiet room, and a rainy day!
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grace & peace,
Jessina