Kendra LeeAnne
  • Home
  • About
  • Speaking
  • Contact
  • The Simple Life
  • Compositions

Blog

Books of 2019

1/5/2020

4 Comments

 
For years I forgot that I love to read. 
No, I don't just love it... I need it. I need to read. I need to allow my mind to escape to other worlds, to empathize with people walking through trials, and to learn and stretch my mind. In December of 2018, I was relearning how much I love to read and decided to set a goal to read 45 books in 2019. Sometimes I read 3 books a week, and sometimes I went three weeks without reading one, but the mission was accomplished. 

I have to be honest, I thoroughly enjoyed every single book I read this year. Some took me a little longer to work through, but I learned something from each book. The ones I didn't laugh or cry through still taught me, and I appreciated each nugget I learned. 

The following is the list of all 45 books completed this year. They are in categories but in no particular order. I am also rating each book with some handy-dandy stars. The stars are based solely on how much I enjoyed the book.

So, without further ado, I present you, my list of books read in 2019 (And yes, I do count audio-books as books read, simply because, hellooo, I'm a mom which means I'm a multi-tasker and "read" quite a few books while vacuuming and driving last year). 
Biographies​
Talking as Fast as I Can
By: Lauren Graham
Five Stars

Unorthodox
​By: Deborah Feldman
Three Stars

Gay Girl, Good God
By: Jackie Hill Perry
Five Stars

Martin Luther
By: Eric Metaxas
Three Stars
The Good Neighbor
By: Maxwell King
​Four Stars
Becoming
By: Michelle Obama
Four Stars
Memoirs
A Man Called Peter
By: Catherine Marshall
Five Stars

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
By: Oliver Sacks
Four Stars

A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
Four Stars

Nickel and Dimed
​By: Barbara Ehrenreich
Four Stars
The Year of Less
By: Cait Flanders
Three Stars

Self-Help and Parenting
Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours
​By: Kevin Leman
Three Stars

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up
​By: Marie Kondo
Three Stars
The Nesting Place
​By: Myquillyn Smith
Four Stars
​
Cozy Minimalist Home
By: Myquillyn Smith
Three Stars

Bringing Up Girls
By: Dr. James Dobson
Four Stars

Spiritual 
Remember God
By: Annie F Downs
Five Stars

Looking for Lovely
By: Annie F Downs
Five Stars

Delighting in the Trinity
​By: Michael Reeves
Four Stars

The Weight of Glory
By: C. S. Lewis
Three Stars

Fictional Novels
To the Moon and Back 
By: Karen Kingsbury 
Five Stars

When We Were Young 
​By: Karen Kingsbury
Three Stars

Anne of the Island
​By: L. M. Montgomery
Five Stars

Anne's House of Dreams
By: L. M. Montgomery
Five Stars

Rainbow Valley
By: L. M. Montgomery
Five Stars

Love Story 
​By: Karen Kingsbury
Three Stars

A Baxter Family Christmas 
By: Karen Kingsbury
Four Stars
The Chance 
By: Karen Kingsbury
Four Stars
The Traveler's Gift
By: Andy Andrews
Five Stars

On Every Side
By: Karen Kingsbury
Four Stars

Anne in Four Winds
By: L. M. Montgomery 
Five Stars

Two Weeks
By: Karen Kingsbury
Four Stars

The Magician's Nephew
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

The Horse and His Boy
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

Prince Caspian
​By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

Voyage of the Dawn Treader
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

Further Chronicles of Avonlea
By: L. M. Montgomery
Five Stars

The Last Battle
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

The Silver Chair
By: C. S. Lewis
Five Stars

Chronicles of Avonlea
By: L. M. Montgomery
Five Stars

The Mother
By: Pearl S. Buck
Five Stars

Jacob's Bell
​By: John Snyder
Three Stars

Peony
By: Pearl S. Buck
Five Stars

4 Comments

    Kendra LeeAnne

    Archives

    January 2020

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Picture
  • Home
  • About
  • Speaking
  • Contact
  • The Simple Life
  • Compositions