Booking It in 2012

I started reading along with Life As Mom last year and read several of the books on the 2011 list. I'll try for more this year.

Here’s the reading schedule for the new year:

January - One Bite at a Time by Tsh Oxenreider

February – The Money Saving Mom’s Budget by Crystal Paine (release January 2012)

March – A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

April – The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

May – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

June – All in Good Time by Tara Kuczykowski and Mandi Ehman (release January 2012)

July - Desserts in Jars by Shaina Olmanson (release May 2012)

August - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein (movie to be released in December 2012)

September – Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis

October - Not Your Mother’s Make Ahead and Freeze Cookbook by Yours Truly (release Sept 2012)

November – Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (movie to be released in December 2012)

December - Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin (release Sept 2012)

This post originated with Life As Mom .

Booking It 2011

One of the blogs I follow is promoting a reading club for the year. The blog owner chose the books, which are:

February 10 – The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
March 10 – Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Get a Kindle edition free right now.)
April 10 – Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
May 10 – Finding Your Purpose as a Mom: How to Build Your Home on Holy Ground by Donna Otto
June 10 – The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Get a free Kindle edition here.)
July 10 – Dancing with My Father: How God Leads Us into a Life of Grace and Joy by Sally Clarkson
August 10 – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
September 10 – Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living by Tsh Oxenreider
October 10 – Not Your Mother’s Casseroles by Faith Durand
November 10 – The Reluctant Entertainer by Sandy Coughlin
December 10 – The Monster in the Hollows by Andrew Peterson, the third in The Wingfeather Saga

I will probably not read all the religious ones because I have other strong LDS religious influence in my life, but it's a nice framework for the year. I'm free to choose other books as desired to replace ones I can't find or don't want to read. I ordered the first two books from the library and the March book Mansfield Park has arrived and I'm about 75 pages into it. I've never read Jane Austen before and in fact, this is only the fourth "classic" novel I've read. So far I like it a lot.