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Books Read 2026
- Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Teaching of Writing - Duffy
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Collins
- Sunrise on the Reaping - Collins
- The Chosen - Potok
- Marce Catlett - Berry
- Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
- The Round House - Erdich
- Andy Catlett: Early Education - Berry
- Discovery of Kentucky - Berry
- November Twenty Six Nineteen Sixty Three - Berry and Shahn
- Purgatory - Dante
- Too Much Happiness - Munro
- Brother Andre - Dubuc
- This is Happiness - Williams
- Andy Catlett: Early Travels - Berry
- The Heart of the Matter - Greene
- The End of the Affair - Greene
- Virtues of Renewal - Bilbro
- All Things New - Ehnow
- When the Unexpected Happens - Meeker
- Christy - Marshall
- The Way We Live Now -Trollope
- The Correspondent - Evans
- Theo of Golden - Levi
- Bright Evening Star - L'Engle
- The Understory - Wilbert
- Plough Winter and Spring
- Chasing Vermeer - Helquist
- Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film - Monahan/Barsam
- The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
- Mind and Heart Common Reader - Monta, et al
Books Read 2025
- The Outsiders - Hinton
- Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- Anne of Windy Poplars - Montgomery
- Tumble - Perez
- Go Like a River - Read
- Night - Weisel
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
- A Wish in the Dark - Soontornvat
- A Spool of Blue Thread - Tyler
- Awakening at Lourdes - Wilkens
- Our Lady of Hot Messes - Ochoa Adams
- A Long Walk to Water - Park
- Plough magazine x3
- Brain on Fire - Callahan
- Rhetoric - Aristotle
- Elements of Rhetoric - Topping
- Gregor the Overlander - Collins
- Cloud Atlas - Mitchell
- The Art of Persuasion: Aristotle's Rhetoric for Everybody - Crider
- Persuasion - Austen
- All the Crooked Saints - Stiefvater
- Giants in the Earth - Rolvaag
- The Heat of the Day - Bowen
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo
- The Weight of Ink - Kadish
- Speak like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln - Humes
- On Care for our Common Home Laudato Si - Pope Francis,commentary by Sean McDonagh,
- The Art of Public Speaking - Carnegie
- Classical Rhetoric and the Modern Student - Corbett
- The Office of Assertion An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay - Crider
- Atomic Habits - Clear
Books Read 2024
- The Boy in the Field - Livesay
- The Nickel Boys - Whitehead
- Remarkably Bright Creatures - van Pelt
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
- The Body Keeps the Score - skimmed
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankwiler
- A Little Princess - Burnett
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Boyne
- Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind -Kamkwamba
- Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty - Cooper
- Where the Lost Wander - Harmon
- Home Front - Hannah
- How Do You Live - Yoshino
- Things in the Basement - Hatke
- Poetry Handbook - Oliver
- My Side of the Mountain - George
- The Diary of Anne Frank script
- The Outsiders - Hinton
- Build the Life You Want - skimmed - Brooks
- The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer -Buettner
- Tom Lake - Patchett
- Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery
- Carrie Soto is Back - Reid
- Terms of Endearment - McMurtry
- How Not to Age - Greger
- James - Everett
- The Women - Hannah
- Absolution - McDermott
- Tom Sawyer - Twain
- Night - Wiesel
- North Woods - Mason
- Natural History - Barnett
- Reading Reconsidered - Lemov
- Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare
- Fever 1793- Anderson
- 26 Marathons - Keflezighi
- Until August - Garcia Marquez
- Our Town - Wilder
- Huckleberry Finn
- A Work in Progress - Lerner
- Mary Jane - Blau
- Anne of the Island - Montgomery
- Little Women - Alcott
- Wild Robot - Peter Brown
- The Midnight Library - Haig
- The Anxious Generation -Haidt
- The Hobbit
- The Giver - Lowry
Books Read 2023
- West With Giraffes - Rutledge
- Midnight Dunes - Griffin
- Run - Lewis
- March 1, 2, and 3 - Lewis
- Prairie Thief - Wiley
Books Read 2022
- Code Name Helene - Lawhon
- The Hidden Art of Homemaking - Schaeffer
- Pachinko - Lee
- Liturgy of the Ordinary - Warren
- Understanding Alice McDermott - Hallissey
- Shadow of the Wind - Zafon
- Neither Here Nor There - Bryson
- Forest of Vanishing Stars - Harmel
- The Four Winds - Hannah
- A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
Books Read 2021
- Acedia and Me - Norris
- Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Lewis
- Hallelujah! The Welcome Table - Angelou
- Real Learning Revisited - Foss
- Where Reasons End - Li
- Fried Butter a Food Memoir - Opincar
- The Obelisk Gate - Jemison
- The Stone Sky - Jemison
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Sacks
- Prince Caspian - Lewis
The crew
Journeying is precisely the art of looking toward the horizon, thinking where I want to go but also enduring the fatigue of the journey, which is sometimes difficult. … There are dark days, even days when we fail, even days when we fall … but always think of this: Don't be afraid of failures. Don't be afraid of falling. What matters in the art of journeying isn't not falling but not staying down. Get up right away and continue going forward. This is what's beautiful: This is working every day, this is journeying as humans. But also, it's bad walking alone: ... Walking in community, with friends, with those who love us, that helps us. It helps us to arrive precisely at that goal, that 'there where' we're supposed to arrive. - Pope Francis
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"Our joy will be genuine only when it no longer depends on things that can be stripped from us and destroyed and when it has its basis rather in those innermost depths of our existence which no worldly power can take from us. Every external loss should turn us back to these innermost depths and better dispose us for our true life. . . The world is not a futile confusion of drudgery and pain, for all the distress the world contains is supported in the arms of merciful love; it is caught up in the forgiving and saving graciousness of our God."
-Benedict XVI
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- Martyr of the Amazon: Sr Dorothy Stang
- Hotel of the Saints - Ursula Hegi
- The Nerviest Girl in the World - Wiley
- Dory Fantasmagory - Hamblin
- The Bells of Nagasaki - Nagai
- Truly, Madly, Deeply - Moriarity
- Little FIres Everywhere - Ng
- The Mothers - Bennett
- Mary at the Crossroads of History - Hoffman
- Dangerous Peaks - Snyder
Books 2019
- Black Beauty - Sewell
- Tasting Grace - D'Arabian
- The Color Purple - Walker
- The Practice House - Neal
- Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens
Books Read 2018
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- Happy Times in Noisy Village
- The Hiding Place ten Boom
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
- Oryx and Crake - Atwood
- The Great Divorce- Lewis
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- To Light A Fire - Barron
- Station Eleven - St. John Mandel
- The Death of the Heart - Bowen
- Waiting for a Miracle - Peterson
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Semple
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- The Murder at the Vicarage - Christie
- Granta issue 134 No Man's Land
- All Clear - Willis
- Blackout - Willis
Books Read 2015
- The Doldrums - Gannon
- Beyond the Beautiful Forevers - Boo
- In Love and War - Adm and Mrs. Stockdale
- When Sorry Isn't Enough - Chapman
- Americanah - Adichie
- Mere Christianity - Lewis
- The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate - Kelly
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Alvarez
Books Read 2014
- Woe is I - O'Connor
- Phineas Finn - Trollope
Books Read 2013
- Waiting for God - Weil
- No Man is an Island - Merton
Books Read 2012
- Mr. Ives' Christmas - Hijuelos
- Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Books Read 2011
- Middlemarch - Eliot
- The Reading Promise - Ozma
On the Bedside Table: 2010
- A Year of Magical Thinking- Didion
- English Fairy Tales - F.A. Steele
On the bedside table - half of 2009
- Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean
About Me
- Emily J.
- Practicing to be a better Navy wife, mom of 7, Catholic, runner, reader, rememberer, writer, educator of self and others
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