The Vertical Alliance discussion

Make a list of the books you have read this semester.

Just finished - Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Currently reading - The Story of Christianity pt 2 by Justo Gonzalez
Anne of Ingleside by LM Montgomery
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

This summer - Technology by Neil Postman
Mary Poppis by PL Travers
Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung
Abraham Kuyper by Bratt
Teaching Student Centered Mathematics by Van de Walle
The Shoemaker's Wife, Very Valentine, and Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Currently Reading (and enjoying!):

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Flying at Night (poetry) by Ted Kooser

Recently Enjoyed:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Book of Hours (poetry) by Kevin Young
Godric by Frederick Buechner
A Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers
Divergent, Veronica Roth
The Space Trilogy, C. S. Lewis
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

Extravagant Grace/Duguid
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon/ Alexander McCall Smith
Crazy Love/ Frances Chan
Every Good Endeavor/ Keller
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion/fannie Fladd

All the Pretty Horses -Cormac McCarthy
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
The Storyteller - Kathy White
A Lesson Before Dying - Gaines
The Hidden Wound - Wendell Berry

The Secret History
The Lake of Dead Languages
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Tender Is the Night
Dante
Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
The Blood Gospel
Gone Girl
In the Lake of the Woods
A Farewell to Arms
The Savage Garden

We Were Liars
The Likeness
The Shining
Finnikin of the Rock

Blood Gospel
The Historian
We Were Liars
Jellico Road
Strong Emergence

I just read Maze Runner and Gone Girl based on student recommendations. Prior to that I read a James Patterson mystery, and I can't remember the title. Sorry. It was mediocre. I do love Sue Grafton, though, and read W is for Wasted. It was poignant, which is interesting for a mystery. Before that I read the City of Bones series. This time last year, I was reading the Divergent series. Lying around my house right now are Cuckoo's Calling, The Goldfinch, and Cutting for Stone. I'll get to those soon, I hope. I have also been reading some Ann Voskamp and an emergent literacy textbook. Strangely, I like educational texts. Not exactly pleasure reading, but interesting.

I just finished Ron Rash's book One Foot in Eden. The story has echoes of Cold Mountain running throughout it as Rash focuses upon the legends of the land itself.

Looking forward to starting All the Light We Cannot See.