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What We're Reading
- June - Sept 2010 Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver
- July 2009 - The Last Sin-Eater by Francine Rivers
- May 2009 - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
- Mar 2009 - Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
- Jan 2009 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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- 8.67 - Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
- 7.91 - The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
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Eight Questions
Please consider each of these 8 questions when responding to the book selections. Answer any one or all...
1. Rate the book:
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2. Write or think a 75 word response.
3. What other books have you read in this genre or on this topic? What is your favorite? How did this one compare?
4. What two characters did you enjoy the most? Why?
5. Which scene was your favorite?
6. What insight did the book give you? How can you apply anything from this book to your own life?
7. What are your favorite quotes from the book?
8. What books can we add to a future vote?
1. Rate the book:
low 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 high
2. Write or think a 75 word response.
3. What other books have you read in this genre or on this topic? What is your favorite? How did this one compare?
4. What two characters did you enjoy the most? Why?
5. Which scene was your favorite?
6. What insight did the book give you? How can you apply anything from this book to your own life?
7. What are your favorite quotes from the book?
8. What books can we add to a future vote?
Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss
ReplyDeleteThe Challenge by Carolyn
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbevilles
ReplyDeleteAny Charlotte or Emily Bronte
Poems of Emily Dicksons
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer
Any of Autsen writings
Any Agatha Christie writings
Any E. M Forester Books
The Ghost and Mrs Muir By R.A. Dick
The Thin Man by Dash Hammett
The Phantom of the opera By Gaston Leroux
Angela's Ashes by Maeve Binchey
Circle of Friends by Frank Mc Court
Summer by Edith Wharton
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
The Some of Scaffold By Gertrude Von le fort
The Friday night knitting club by Katie Jacobs
Rebecca of sunny brook farms by Katie Wiggins
Second Chance by Jane Green
Any Beverly Lewis Books In the Nellie Fisher series
Barefoot By Elin Hilderbrand
Nights of Rodanthe by Nichols Sparks
I wanted to recommend the book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. I have never read it, but I've been wanting to read it for a while. It was written in 1953, but is futuristic and I hear it is very thought provoking.
ReplyDelete1. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
ReplyDelete2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
3. Desert by Jean-Marie Gustave LeClezio
4. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
5. I Would Die for You: One Student's Story of Passion, Service and Faith by Brent & Deanna Higgins
6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
7. Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant
8. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
9. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
10. A Test of Faith by Karen Ball
~ Submitted by various participants