What's On My Nightstand

Nightstand time over at 5 Minutes for Books!

Checking in with both my Fall Into Reading Challenge AND last month's Nightstand post, I'm actually pretty pleased with my progress. I've made inroads on review copies (which is my huge project to tackle before the end of the year!) and I've also read some books from my own home book shelves which I'm pretty pleased with.

I read and reviewed the following (all linked to my reviews):

* When Molly Was a Harvey Girl
* The Faithful Parent
* The Knights of Arrethtrae

I also finished reading:
* Great Lives: Job: A Man of Heroic Endurance, by Charles Swindoll
(thoughts on that coming soon to a blog near you)
* In Search of the Castaways: The Children of Captain Grant, by Jules Verne (which I'm excited to talk about shortly)

My nightstand still has some review copies on it, and I'll keep plugging away there. But in the meantime, for this single month's goal, here's what I have in mind to read. All of these books I've purchased or received from friends and I'm looking forward to diving in:





1. Still planning to read An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis. Not taking it off my Nightstand mention until I. GET. TO. IT! (In Search of the Castaways took me a bit longer to read than I had originally anticipated. That's my excuse, yes.)

2. Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, by John Piper. (You can't see me, but I am literally hopping up and down over this title.) I was offered a review copy of this one and took a pass. WHY!? Because I anticipate awesomeness and I wanted to buy it for myself. SO....unless something shocking is unearthed, I anticipate being wild with glee over this title. (At least, I'm already wild with glee over the title itself.)

3. Tumtum & Nutmeg: The Rose Cottage Tales!!!!!!!!!!!! My copy is on the way and once it gets here, Bookworm1 and I are going to settle down with our mouse friends and ENJOY! (In case you missed my rather frequent mentions of Tumtum and Nutmeg, pleasepleaseplease go read my earlier review. You have Stephanie and Amy to thank for my rabid and incessant pleas about this book. It's all their fault. Too true!)

That's all I'll list for good measure here today. Gives me attainable goals. Plus, I know we're headed into the holiday season and it is my secret wish to cram through so many books in November that it will make my brain spin. That way I'm free to read Christmas tales all through the month of December. I was glancing through my bookshelves the other day and I had set aside some books last Christmas that I meant to read this year. I hope to just have a blast during the month of December totally marinating myself in Christmas cheer. (Don't roll your eyes. This is a good thing. Or, at least, it can be!)

Hope you all have a lovely month of reading and I'm looking forward to running around and checking out your Nightstand posts as well!