To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo
I did not reach 52 books this year, my unstated goal, but I did read some really good ones, and I finally finished Les Miserables! Here are my top ten, in no particular order:
Consider This by Karen Glass
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (alternated between book and audiobook)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (started in print, finished with a fabulous, free Librivox audiobook read by Karen Savage)
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard J. Maybury (easy to understand economics!)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (listened to the Arkangel recording while reading along in my hardcopy)
Beowulf (Seamus Heaney’s translation and narration)
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (best mystery of the year)
God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew (wonderful!)
The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
Norms and Nobility by David Hicks
And here’s a few I’m hoping to read in 2015:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (this may be another 2-year book like Les Mis!)
And of course, lots of Ambleside Online Year 7 books 🙂
Happy New Year!
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I want to read Fierce Convictions, too. And I've had all three Kristin Lavransdatter books on !y kindle for a year now. I should start it!
Happy New Year!