The Summer Reading Challenge

I was wanting to get my summer reading list together, and Janie from Seasonal Soundings provided just the right motivation: The Summer Reading Challenge! Click on that link and join us, okay?

My list takes into consideration that I will be sitting in a lot of waiting rooms with Mom, spending a week on the Oregon coast, and staying home a bunch. I have come up with a good balance of serious and funny, new books and re-reads; the very act of compiling the list brings comfort and cheer for this summer where so much is unknown and frightening. Oh, I love books.



Andy Catlett
A World Lost
Nathan Coulter
The Memory of Old Jack


A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table Mollie Wizenberg
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy Michael Tucker
The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater



Christ in the Psalms by Patrick Henry Reardon
Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father
The Idiot F. Dostoevsky
The Journals of Alexander Schmemann



The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs Alexander McCall Smith
Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall Smith
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir Bill Bryson



The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
Meet the Austins