What’s on YOUR Bookshelf?

Every month I join Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Twitterature Link-up (which should be coming up at the end of this week and I am super excited to get some feedback on the books I read this past month). Today, she hosted a What’s on YOUR Bookshelf Link-up for all of us to sneak a peak at each other’s book shelves. If you are a book lover, you know of the unspeakable delight it is to peruse someone else’s collection. I look forward to seeing all of YOUR bookshelves; they just might kick-off my writing of a Christmas list!

I have books everywhere! Ask Andy, he is constantly *amazed* at how I can possibly find so many different places to gather reading material. It’s a skill, really.

I usually keep the books I am currently reading on the couch, in a nearby basket, in my purse, or on my nightstand (and I have yet to streamline my library book organization so those are pretty much everywhere). Anyway, these shelves are in the downstairs office…

The top shelf is pretty much theology, marriage, and Christian living (and the Armour not in the pic but right next to these shelves houses more books on Christian Living, theology, psychology, and all my cookbooks. There is a lot of C.S. Lewis, Timothy Keller, Philip Yancey, and Walking with God by John Eldredge, which was one that really stuck out to Andy and me this past year.

I have divided them into some categories. Below, Parenting (and parenting boys)…

Dobson and Leman always offer sound Biblical wisdom and valuable insight into the world of Christian parenting. I haven’t read every book in this stack yet, so they are not all coming endorsed :)

The first book I read on eating real food, was not so ironically called, Real Food by Nina Planck. That was one book in a long list (some shown below) that led us farther down the road of Our {Real Food} Journey. For my birthday a couple years ago, Andy bought me the “library” of initial books I’d read and the documentaries we’d watched along the way. It was an awesome gift because now I have them on hand to reference and share as resources for others who are curious about the real food lifestyle.

I have another stack of Adoption books in my nightstand, but many I read from the library and would like to add those to my home library in due time. One that is definitely missing here is Secret Thoughts of An Adoptive mother by Jana Wolff, with which I agreed and disagreed, but is absolutely worth the read for anyone pursuing adoption. Another Place at the Table is one that is primarily written about foster care (but the family also adopted three children out of the foster care system). I cried almost the entire book. I’m not kidding. Bawling out of control, go to bed early and weep…This goes RIGHT back to the fact that Adoption isn’t Charity, It’s War!

A few classics on homeschooling! My oldest is 3.5 years old, so we’ve started some Preschool at home; however, I’ve been trying to research general thoughts and different philosophies on the topic. The three I’ve most researched are the Montessori Method, the Charlotte Mason Method, and Classical Education. I can’t speak highly enough about any of these, but I ate up every word of the Charlotte Mason Companion!

This is some of my growing collection of more advanced children’s literature. I snatch up copies of classics whenever I spot them at a thrift store or used book sales. Right now, Max and I are finishing up Mr. Popper’s Penguins.

This is a much harder task than I expected because there is so much to say about every book that graces my shelves. Some I have but could do without, others I read from the library and have on a list to bring home to stay. I didn’t even show you the pathetic glimpse of my classics, because much of my classic literature is boxed up. As for current fiction, I tend to check those out from the library because with a limited book budget, I like to buy books that I am either loved, certain I’ll read again, or serve as a valuable resource.

Plus, I didn’t even touch the boys’ bookshelves. I might have to put together a What’s on YOUR bookshelf: Children’s edition!

~ Becca

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