Soooooooo much new music today. So much happiness. So much productivity. So much contentedness and gratitude.
I had the honor of watching this in person live last night. Hilarious. Incredible. This youth group in Cookeville, a merry band of crazy awesome people, celebrated completing 52 service projects in 52 weeks counting down to this year’s GO! Camp!
Enjoy (and stick through to the end).
I am so proud of these kids… Their love is the source of today’s inexpressible and glorious joy. God is good.
I’m reading Rob Bell’s Sex God. My, oh my, how I wish I’d read this ten years ago and every year since. (Forget that it hadn’t even been written ten years ago. That’s peripheral.)
Mostly because I know you’ll see this on Tumblr:
All of your recent posts are from me/directed towards me/picking at me (book list.)
I miss you.
SKYPE.
I have excellent friends. :) She knows me so well.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR TolkienJane Eyre - Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series - JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird - Harper LeeThe Bible - Various
Wuthering Heights - Emily BronteNineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles DickensLittle Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas HardyCatch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn WaughCrime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS LewisEmma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh - AA MilneAnimal Farm - George OrwellThe Da Vinci Code - Dan BrownOne Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia MarquezA Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie CollinsAnne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwanLife of Pi - Yann MartelDune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz ZafonA Tale Of Two Cities - Charles DickensBrave New World - Aldous HuxleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark HaddonLove In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice SeboldCount of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman RushdieMoby Dick - Herman MelvilleOliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram StokerThe Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James JoyceThe Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David MitchellThe Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web - EB WhiteThe Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid BlytonHeart of Darkness - Joseph ConradThe Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksWatership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre DumasHamlet - William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Welp. There’s a ways to go, but forty-three is more than six. :)