My Book of Common Days: Fireworks

Books Read in 2009

*"An Echo in the Bone" by Diana Gabaldon
*"Austenland" by Shannon Hale
*"Beauty" by Robin McKinley
*"Clear as the Moon" by Chris Stewart
*"Common Sense" by Glenn Beck
*"Daughters of God" by S. Michael Wilcox
*"Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card
*"Fariest" by Gail Carson Levine
*"From the End of Heaven" by Chris Stewart
*"Fury and Light" by Chris Stewart
*"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
*"Moroni: Ancient Prophet, Modern Messenger" by H. Donl Peterson
*"Next" by Michael Crichton
*"Princess Academy" by Shannon Hale
*"Prologue: The Brothers" by Chris Stewart
*"Spindle's End" by Robin McKinley
*"State of Fear" by Michael Crichton
*"The Children of Green Knowe" by L.M. Boston
*"The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett
*"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tokien
*"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat
*"The Life of Our Lord" by Charles Dickens
*"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
*"The Naked Communist" by W. Cleon Skousen
*"The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham
*"The Proper Role of Government" by Ezra Taft Benson
*"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
*"The Second Sun" by Chris Stewart
*"The Two Princesses of Bamarre" by Gail Carson Levine
*"The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln" edited by Anthony Gross
*"Thousand Pieces of Silver" by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
*"Where Angels Fall" by Chris Stewart
*"Who Killed the Constitution?" by Thomas E. Woods Jr. & Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Books Read in 2010

*"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
*The Book of Mormon"
*"Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
*"Mockingbird" by Suzanne Collins
*"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
*"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
*"The Orchard" by Adele Crocket Robinson
*"Give Us Liberty" by Dick Armey and Matte Kibbe
*"Night" by Elie Wiesel
*"The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
*"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
*"Belong to Me" by Marisa de los Santos
*"The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck
*"The Founding Father: George Washington" by Paul Johnson
*"Arguing with Idiots" by Glenn Beck
*"Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis
*"The Seven Miracles that Saved America" by Chris Stewart
*"On the Wealth of Nations' by P.J. O'rourke
*"Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare
*"In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas" by Theodore Dalrymple
*"The Real George Washington" by Jay A. Parry
*"Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin

Books Read in 2011

*"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
*"The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis
*"The Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke
*"The Mansion" by Henry Van Dyke
*"Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
*"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
*"Michael O'Halloran" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling
*"The Railway Children" by E. Nesbitt
*"A Daughter of the Land" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
*"The Harvester" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"A Witness and a Warning: A Modern Day Prophet Testifies of the Book of Mormon" by Ezra Taft Benson
*"Freckles" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"The Book of Mormon"
*"Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"Laddie: A True Blue Story" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
*"The Love of Liberty" by Leonard E. Read
*"The Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World" by Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart
*"In God We Trust; All Others Pay Cash" by Jean Shepherd
*"Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White
*"None Dare Call it Conspiracy" by Gary Allen
*"The Real Benjamin Franklin" by Andrew M. Allison
*"700 Sundays" by Billy Crystal
*"The Real Thomas Jefferson" by Andrew M Allison
*"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
*"Nick of Time" by Ted Bell
*"Homer's Odyssey" by Gwen Cooper
*"How Evil Works" by David Kupelian
*"The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis
*"The Great and Abominable Church of the Devil" by H. Verlan Andersen
*"The Cleansing of America" by W. Cleon Skousen
*"The Shadow Party" by David Horowitz and Richard Poe
*"The Mountain of the Lord" by Chad S. Hawkins
*"The Green Smoothie Diet" by Robin Openshaw
*"The Coming Insurrection" by the Invisible Committee
*"The Great Prologue" by Mark E. Petersen
*"C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children" Edited by Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead
*"The Survivor's Club" by Ben Sherwood
*"America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story" Bruce Feiler
*"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis
*"Redwall: the Legend Begins" by Brian Jacques

Books Read in 2012

DECEMBER
*"Agenda 21" by Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke
*"Peony In Love" by Lisa See
NOVEMBER
*"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See
OCTOBER
*"The Book of Mormon"
*"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
SEPTEMBER
*"Patrick Henry" by Moses Coit Tyler
AUGUST
*"The Sea Faries" by L. Frank Baum
JULY
*"Miles to go" by Richard Paul Evans
*"Michael Vey" by Richard Paul Evans
*"The Walk" by Richard Paul Evans
JUNE
*"Guide Me To Eternity" Christine Tuttle Monsen
*"The Message" by Lance Richardson
*"The Birth We Call Death" by Paul H. Dunn
*"How to Survive the End of the World as We Know it" by James Wesley, Rawles
*"PeterPan" by J. M. Barrie
MAY
*"Sunflower Houses; a Book for Children and Their Grown-ups" By Sharon Lovejoy
*"Immortal Light" by John Sperry
*"Hollyhock Days" by Sharon Lovejoy
APRIL
*"Are Mormons Christians?" By Stephen Edward Robinson
MARCH
*"Mount Vernon Love Story" by Mary Higgins Clark
FEBRUARY
*"The Americanism of Washington" by Henry Van Dyke
*"Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century" by Thomas E. Woods
*"Original Intent" by David Barton
JANUARY
*"Jacob T. Marley" by R. William Bennett
*"Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
*"Being George Washington" by Glenn Beck
*"Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery
*"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
*"The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Books Read in 2013

DECEMBER
*"The Scavenger's Daughters" by Kay Bratt
*"Letters from Father Christmas" by J. R. R. Tolkien
*"Beyond the Wardrobe; The Official Guide to Narnia" by E. J. Kirk
NOVEMBER
*"The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales" by George MacDonald
*"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
*"Little Lord Fauntleroy" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
OCTOBER
*"Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
*"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*"Christopher Columbus; A Latter-day Perspective" by Arnold K. Garr
*"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller
SEPTEMBER
*"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington
*"Phantastes, A Faerie Romance for Men and Women" by George MacDonald
*"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
*"Believing Christ" by Stephen E. Robinson
*"The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi
AUGUST
*"Call of the Wild" by Jack London
*"Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
*"The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald
*"Maze of Bones" by Rick Riordan
JULY
*"Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison" by Brandon Mull
JUNE
*"Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary" by Brandon Mull
APRIL
*"Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague" by Brandon Mull
*"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*"Pillage" by Obert Skye
*"The Serpent in the Glass" by D. M. Andrews
MARCH
*"Jack MacFadden and the Faerie Realm" by D. M. Andrews
*"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
*"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
*"Keep God in American History" by Harry F. Atwood
*"Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star" by Brandon Mull
*"Mozart's Last Aria" by Matt Rees
FEBRUARY
*"Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
*"Immortal Light:Wide Awake" by John D. Sperry
*"How to Kill Eleven Million People" By Andy Andrews
JANUARY

Books Read in 2014

DECEMBER
*"Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson
*"Witnesses of the Birth of Christ" by Joseph Fielding McConkie
*"Written in My Own Heart's Blood" by Diana Gabaldon
*"Getting at the Truth" by Robert L. Millet
NOVEMBER
*"Little Known Evidences of the Book of Mormon" by Brenton G. Yorgason
*"Just David" by Eleanor H. Porter
OCTOBER
*"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
*"Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell
SEPTEMBER
*Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen
*"Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen
AUGUST
*"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
*Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
*"Pollyanna" by Eleanor H. Porter
JULY
*"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
*"The Romance of Tristan and Iseult" by Joseph Bedier
*"Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*"The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald
*"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde
*"The Sea Fairies" by L. Frank Baum
*"James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
*"Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
JUNE
*"Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
*Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
*"A Christmas Carol" X 2 by Charles Dickens
MAY
*"The Enoch Letters" by Neal A. Maxwell
*"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
*"The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
APRIL
*"Emma" by Jane Austen
*"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
MARCH
*"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp
*Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
*"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
*"The Birth That We Call Death" by Paul H. Dunn and Richard M. Eyre
FEBRUARY
*"Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
JANUARY
*"Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
*"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
*"Divergent" by Veronica Roth

I didn't really set off fireworks, but this is how we "celebrated" this year's "Earth Day"; every light that was available was turned on. I like the glow :)

Favorite Quote

"Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. Knowing this, it is hard to explain those who even today would question the people's capacity for self-rule. Will they answer this: if no one among us is capable of governing himeself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"

Ronald Reagan

Books Read in 2015

DECEMBER
*"The Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke
*"The Mansion" by Henry Van Dyke
*"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
NOVEMBER
*"The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge
*"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
OCTOBER
*"Mayflower: A Stoty of Courage, Community, and War" by Nathaniel Philbrick
*"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
*"The Story of the Treasure Seekers" by E. Nesbit
SEPTEMBER
*"Anne of the Island" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
*"Anne of Avonlea" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
*"William The Conqueror; Makers of History" by Jacob Abbott
*"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
*"The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy
*"The Railway Children" by E. Nesbit
*"The Book of Mormon"
*"The Keeper of the Bees" by Gene Stratton-Porter
*"Just David" by Eleanor H.Porter
AUGUST
*"Pollyanna" by Eleanor H. Porter
*"The Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*"Calvin Coolidge" by Calvin Coolidge
JULY
*"Persuasion" by Jane Austen
*"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*"George's Marvelous Medicine" by Roald Dahl
*American Exceptionalism" by Charles Murray
JUNE
*"The Eagle of the Ninth" by Rosemary Sutcliff
MAY
*"The Silence of God" by Gale Sears
APRIL
*"The Letters of Jane Austen" by Jane Austen
*"The Velvet Room" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
MARCH
*"Faith Precedes the Miracle" by Spencer W. Kimball
*"Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
*"As Sisters In Zion; the Story Behind the Song" by Debbie J. Christensen
FEBRUARY
*"Bible Manners and Customs" by Rev. G. M. Mackie, M.A.
JANUARY
*"The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien
*"The Book of Dragons" by E. Nesbit
*"The Screwtape Letters" by C. S. Lewis
*"Ben-Hur" by Lew Wallace

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