Sunday, January 15, 2012

First Links of 2012 including My Top Ten Books of All Time (as of right now)


Everything I know about God I learned  in my laundry pile, posted by Elizabeth Ester, is so spot on I can't keep it to myself. This is how she starts…
The first lesson you learn in motherhood is that when you create a human, you also spend a lot of time cleaning up after it. Which, if you think about it, is pretty much what God has been doing since the day He created humans. Cleaning up after us, I mean.

 

I do quite a bit of figuring out flights. Often I am trying to figure out the best routing, timing, and/or who we could get miles on that actually helps our current mile situation. I have a website I have been using for years, but the URL is ridiculous so I am always having to find find the link and go from there. (I just realized I should have turned this into an itty bitty url years ago, but now I have this…) This week I came across a new website with an easy to remember URL. http://www.hipmunk.com/ This site does virtually the same thing as my previous 'go-to', but with visual bar graphs for flight times and an option to list searches by 'agony'. Give it a try!

 

Katherine Sokolowski was the author on The Nerdy Book Club with a post entitled "My Top Ten Most Important Books". As I told her, I am a sucker for a Top Ten list and an even bigger sucker for books. I immediately opened my notebook and jotted down my list…
In no particular order - My Top Ten Books of All Time (as of right now)
Product DetailsThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Everywhere Babies lap board bookEverywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Illustrated by Marla Frazee

Kneeling in JerusalemKneeling in Jerusalem by Ann Weems

14,000 Things to be Happy About.: Revised and Updated edition14,000 Things To Be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer

Product DetailsThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mister God, This Is AnnaMister God, This is Anna by Fynn

My Beautiful ChildMy Beautiful Child by Lisa Desimini and Illustrated by Matt Muhurin

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS, SCOTT O'DELL (A DELL YEARLING BOOK)Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

 

and The Bible
My favorite two versions are here and here

 

Join the conversation and leave a comment. Learn anything from a laundry pile? Favorite airlines? Top Ten Book List? Anything else?

3 comments:

  1. Great list! Dawn Treader is my favorite Narnia book too. And the Sparrow would also be on my list.

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  2. Love your list! I will be rereading The Island of the Blue Dolphins for #nerdbery this year!
    Katherine

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