From the bookshelf

Even though the one piece of furniture we brought to Maryland was a bookshelf (and more books than it would hold), we still left behind in Niceville several full bookshelves. Choosing what to bring (and what to leave) was hard. But, now that we're settled a bit, and our school year's in full swing (even Jim's), we're reading -- a lot.

Books are found scattered about the house, their pages perused, enjoyed and often shared aloud. A perfunctory list of our current reads follows:

The Golden Children's Bible
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Pyle and King Arthur and His Knights by Warren
Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick and her daughter (thanks for the recommendation, Jen!)
A Child's History of the World
Watership Down
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (The Faerie Queen)
Microbe Hunters
Selections from the old Greeks: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill
CLP Nature Reader (book 1) - a favorite of Emmy Xiang's
What Ever Happened to Penny Candy?
A Child's History of England by Dickens
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made 
various books in the Redwall series (we can't peel them from Gracie's hands often enough)

And, of course, we're reading THE book, God's Word

And most of us occasionally will be found devouring a bit of dear Jane's novels (Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and every now and then Emma finds herself off the shelf).

Sigh. What could make one feel more at home than a comfortable place to curl up with a steaming cup of tea and a good book!

Home is where the books are!