What I’m Reading (and the Kids too)

December is here. Chilly temps have really settled in, and books are becoming my most favorite thing – especially by the light of the Christmas tree. Admittedly, those non-fiction books are a little harder to pick up and dig into (it’s much easier to get lost in another world where I don’t have to focus on anything), but I am making progress.

The one thing I really need to focus on this month is decidedly making time to read for my growth – not just for fun. The last few weeks have been crazy with family visiting and traveling, so focusing on a more serious topic has been harder to do. Hence – the fiction. :) I will also admit that the last little bit I have been sidetracked by the Hallmark channel (we subscribed to Sling TV for the month so we could get all the holiday movies!!), and that may have put a damper on my reading.

My GoodReads app is helping me track the books that I’m reading. Only two books on my original reading list for 2017 remain, and one of them is already halfway finished. I’m definitely looking forward to our Christmas break and hoping to finish both of them prior to that so I can just relax and read all the FUN books that are still on my shelf.

To help me toward my goal of finishing those two books, I’m setting an alarm for every afternoon at 2pm so I can sit down and read for at least 15 minutes.  Here are the books on my pile to read this month: 

• Abba’s Child by Brendan Manning (about 1/2 way through)
• When God Seems Far Away by Joy Jacobs
• Dangerous Legacy – Elizabeth Camden
• Giver of Wonders by Roseanna White
• Essentials by Lindsey Elmore
• Awaken (devotional) by Priscilla Shirer
• Cherish by Gary Thomas (still working through this) 
• random Kindle books (bedtime reading)

The Kids are Reading…

• Laurianna – lots of assigned reading for her college classes
• McKenna – Heart of Darkness
• Zachary – Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
• Kaleb – Boxcar Children book #3
• Family read-aloud – Gregor the Overlander series

What I Finished in November

Here’s a peek at what I finished in the month of November – just fiction and working through some non-fiction too. 

• Irish Meadows by Susan Anne Mason
• Until the Dawn by Elizabeth Camden – HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!
• five books in the Jacobite chronicles by Julia Brannon (there were some parts I had to skip). Otherwise a good series, but the parts I skipped seemed like they were token “add in” scenes that honestly could have been modified or left out completely. 

That’s it for this month – what is on YOUR reading list??