The Bookshelf


Welcome to the best part of my day. The part that involves books.

What I'm currently Reading:
Ishmael - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Safely Home - Tom Eldredge
The Wooden Horse - Eric Williams

My Ten Favorites: 

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Burne
Tarzan of the Apes - Burroughs
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare
Karen - Marie Killilea
The Hiding Place - Ten Boom
The Code of The Woosters - Wodehouse
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
Milkweed - Spinelli
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Doyle

Excellent Reads:

The Man who Loved Clowns - June Rae Wood (This has always been a personal favorite, for what reason, I cannot explain.)
Sixpence in her Shoe - Phyllis McGuilliy
Little Women - Alcott
Summer at Tiffany - Marjorie Hart
Anything written by P.G. Wodehouse
Great Expectations - Dickens
Two are Better than One -
The Small Woman - Alan Burgess
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
(More to be added)


Serious Reads:

Dug Down Deep - Joshua Harris
One Soldier's Story - Bob Dole 
A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken
Anything written by C.S. Lewis
Don't Waste Your Life - Piper
i am not but i know I AM - Louie Giglio
A Severe Mercy -  

Hoping to Read:

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Excellent Short Stories:

The Birthmark - Hawthorne
The Night the Bed Fell - Thurber
The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
The Last Leaf - O. Henry
Appointment with Love - Kishor
Bartleby the Scrivener - Melville
When he Waves Goodbye - Patrick Chism

Excellent Poetry:

If - Rudyard Kippling
Cassandra - Edwin Arlington Robinson
Somebody Said that it Couldn't Be Done - Edgar Guest
If all is Lost, Thanks be to God - Dom Julian
Outwitted - Edwin Markham
Vitai Lampada - Newbolt
If We Knew - Smith
The Road not Taken - Robert Frost
A Fence or an Ambulance - Malins
Tragedy - Spargur
Grass - Carl Sandburg