"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."--Jessamyn West

Nancy Pearl's "Rule of 50": "If you're 50 or younger, give every book 50 pages before you commit to it, or give it up. If you're over 50, take your age and subtract it from 100--the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding. Life is too short to read something you don't like."

What I have read since November 2003:

Fiction:
--Midnight Voices by John Saul
--Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
--The Alienist by Caleb Carr
--Nicolae by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
--The Way It Is by Patrick Sanchez
--Watch Me by AJ Holt
--In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
--While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
--Shadow of the Dolls by Rae Lawrence
--Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
--Extreme Justice by William Bernhardt
Non-fiction:
--The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
--Favorite Holiday Traditions complied by Ellyn Sanna
--May Christ be the Center of your Christmas by Vickie Phelps
--Colors of Russia by Shannon Zemlicka
--Count Your Way Through Russia by Jim Haskins
--The Last Time I Wore A Dress by Daphne Scholinski
--So You're Thinking About Homeschooling by Lisa Whelchel
--Restoring Margin to Overloaded Lives by Richard A. Swenson, MD
--Real Moms by Elisa Morgan & Carol Kuykendall
--A Home Start in Reading by Ruth Beechick
--A Strong Start in Language by Ruth Beechick
--Ebola by William T. Close, MD
--Under the Banner of Heaven: Story of a Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
--Night Light for Parents by Dr. Jim & Shirley Dobson
--The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
--Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life by Barbara Johnson
--Babyhood by Paul Reiser
--A Book of Angels by Sophy Burnham
--The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
--Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life (or, How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child) by Faulkner Fox
--Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman
--Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails by Chrys Howard
--Can a Smart Person Believe in God? by Michael Guillen
--The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
--The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson
--Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward
--The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith & Tomas Guillen
--Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
--When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs (Paperback)
by Drew Pinsky
--The Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov (AWESOME BOOK - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!)

What I am currently reading:
Fiction: n/a
Non-Fiction:
--The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
--Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields
--The Message//Remix (Eugene Patterson)