Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis.
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.
The Secret of the Rose by Sarah L. Thomson.
Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson.
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by Alex and Brett Harris.
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn.
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi. Semicolon review here.
When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and The Women Who Fought Back by Stephen Singular. Semicolon review here.
The Giver by Lois Lowry.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
I’m taking a few seconds away from River Rising to leave you a note and tell you how much I’m enjoying it!
Now back to the book . . .
Christopher went to the Do Hard Things conference when it was near Indianapolis.
I think it was one of the first conferences they gave but he thought the message very good. It is always nice to have what we’ve been teaching all his life reinforced by his peer group.
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