I have always intended to be a woman of my word, and since I distinctly stated in my last post that I would give the books I was considering for my 2020 Reading Challenge soon, I believe soon has arrived this evening. These books are not necessarily written in stone, nor will I carve them there until I am reading a noted book and it proves itself to be a book I will want to continue reading. As you might well notice the list is not fully complete, I am open for suggestions...
1. 19th Century Classic Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
2. 20th Century Classic One of Ours Willa Cather
3. Classic written by a man Jayber Crow Wendell Berry
4. Classic in Translation The Confessions St. Augustine
5. Genre Classic 4:50 to Paddington Agatha Christie
6. Classic with a person's name in the title Celia's House. D. E. Stevenson
7. Classic with a place in the title We Bought An Island Evelyn E. Atkins
8. Classic with nature in the title The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett
9. Classic about family The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West
10. An Abandoned Classic Villete Charlotte Bronte
11. Classic Adaption North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
12. Childhood Classic Cornelli Johanna Spyri
13. A Perennial A Praying Life Paul Miller
14. A Religious Classic How Should We Then Live? Francis Schaeffer
15. A Grace Livingston Hill Homing(?)
16. A biography/autobiography Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken
17. A non- fiction Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life Marta McDowell
What is it about typing something that makes reality spring into focus? This list seems terribly ambitious, especially in light of other things I love to do beside reading, and unfortunately, I have never been one that enjoys reading while doing something else with my hands.
"A fondness for reading, properly directed,, must be an education in itself"
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
