Before I start the list, I would like to share that I usually have a few books going at a time and read different types. I need at least one storybook going and at least one educational/informational one, and if a book comes along that I am anxious to read then I add that one to the rotation.
--Bibles including the Archoelogical Study Bible (which is too big to read in bed), the Message (which is also not very comfortable to read when in a horizontal position), and a King James little leather one that was my dad's and brings back memories when I scratch and sniff it.
--Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
--The Secret Things of God by Dr. Henry Cloud (loved it and am reading it again).
--The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence.
--The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (so I can look up those strange new words such as sinter and deflocculate).
--Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (am still at the beginning and am loving it so far).
--Three by Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, and The Writing Life(finished Pilgrim and am on An American Childhood).
--The Great Stink by Clare Clark.
--The New Breed: Stories of the U.S. Marines in Korea by Andrew Geer (My daddy was a Marine during this war).
--The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (I'll admit I haven't opened this one in awhile).
--The Purpose Driven Life Journal (because I got it for a buck at a garage sale and it's leather).
--The Emporor's Children by Claire Messud (haven't started yet, but will after I'm done with Three Cups of Tea).
--Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon (haven't started yet).
--A prayer journal that I hand-made a few years ago.
--A scroll that Melanie brought me back from the Hong Kong Museum of Art that contains the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".
--Some prayer beads my Kansas Mom gave me this fall.
--A box of Kleenex.
--A lamp.
--A flashlight (for when I have insomnia and want to read in bed).
Hmmm...Maybe I should put a bookshelf where my nightstand is. Oh yeah, and my husband has about four things on his nightstand...I drive him crazy so that we have one more thing in common--both crazy.
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do you like annie dillard? i read The Living when i was in hs and i thought i'd die...it was so depressing!
after i read it i did have an excellent feel for the Puget Sound. later when i visited it i realized how well Dillard writes.
i also have an essay she wrote that i saved from college. i'll find it for you.
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I really like this post! Those titles look interesting. I have a ton of books on my nightstand too. I tried putting them in the drawers, but I keep pulling them back out and making messy stacks on top instead.
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