Reading! My New Year's Resolution

Happy new year!

My new year’s resolution for 2018 was to read! I read 24 books and genuinely enjoyed each one. My list is below with asterisks by my favorites. Apart from reading them, I also enjoyed going to charming used book stores and picking out beautiful copies of the classics to add to our small, but growing, family library. Owning books, instead of borrowing from a library, was inspired by the research that strongly links having plenty of books in the home with higher academic achievement in children (here). I'm planning to keep the resolution going into 2019, but amping it up by trying to read a book per week. 

1. *Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
2. *Miracles - C.S. Lewis
3. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
4. *Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
5. Fablehaven #1 - Brandon Mull
6. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families - Stephen R. Covey
7. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
8. Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
9. Trumpet of the Swan
10. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
11. Peter Pan - JM Barrie
12. A Wrinkle in Time - L’Engle
13. The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
14. *The Little Princess - F.H. Burnett
15. The Secret Garden - F.H. Burnett
16. Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
17. *Emma - Jane Austen
18. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
19. *The Book of Mormon
20. *A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
21. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers
22. Stuart Little - E.B. White (out loud w Lydia)
23. The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
24. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (almost done 😊)