888 Reading Challenge

I'm going to attempt the 888 Reading Challenge next year. You can check out the rules at http://www.triple8challenge.blogspot.com. Here's my list (subject to tweaking):

888 Reading Challenge

1. Women Writers
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (Elizabeth Peters)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)*
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*
Middlemarch (George Eliot)*
Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)*
The Nine Tailors (Dorothy Sayers)

2. Christianity
Against Christianity (Peter Leithart)
Christianity and Liberalism (J. Gresham Machen)
Angels in the Architecture (Douglas Jones)
Lost in the Middle (Paul David Tripp)
Life in the Father’s House (Wayne A. Mack)
A More Profound Alleluia (Leanne Van Dyk)
How Should We Then Live? (Francis Schaeffer)
Revolution (George Barna)

3. Adoptive parenting
Adoption Parenting (Jean MacLeod)
Attaching in Adoption (Deborah Gray)
Adopting a Toddler (Denise Harris Hoppenhauer)
Talking with Young Children About Adoption (Mary Watkins)
LifeBooks (Beth O’Malley)
Parenting Your Adopted Older Child (Brenda McCreight)
Our Own (Trish Maskew)

4. Classics
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)*
City of God (Augustine)
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)*
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)*
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)*
Paradise Lost (John Milton)

5. Inklings
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
God in the Dock (C.S. Lewis)
Pilgrims Regress (C.S. Lewis)
The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)

6. Books about Books
The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived (Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan, and Jeremy Salter)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Jane Smiley)
101 Best Scenes Ever Written (Barnaby Conrad)
Every Book Its Reader (Nicholas A. Basbanes)
Reading Like a Writer (Francine Prose)
The Case of the Missing Books (Ian Sansom)
Deconstructing Penguins (Lawrence Goldstone)
How to Read a Book (Mortimer J. Adler)

7. Nonfiction
Making the Mummies Dance (Thomas Hoving)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
All the Clean Ones Are Married (Lori Cidylo) – Moscow, Russia
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson) – Pakistan
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik (Marie Javins) – Africa
An Odd Odyssey (Glen David Short) – Mexico & Central America
The Seven Laws of Teaching (John Milton Gregory)*

8. Education
The Seven Laws of Teaching (John Milton Gregory)*
Climbing Parnassus (Tracy Lee Simmons)
Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire (Rafe Esquith)
Rediscovering Catechism (Donald Van Dyken)
Talking of Dragons (William Chad Newsom)
Increasing Academic Achievement with the Trivium of Classical Education (Randall Hart)
Norms and Nobility (David V. Hicks)
Wisdom and Eloquence (Robert Littlejohn)

Happy reading!

Our little bunnies found a home!

Remember the baby bunnies Noah and I fostered for a couple of months? Well, they're now settled into their new home - together! We are just tickled about this, as it can be hard to find someone to take three rabbits together. We expected them to be split up. But they really were so fun together, with their different personalities. And Sally, especially, seemed to need her siblings near (she's the shy, cautious one). The people who took the bunnies home also took home another sibling pair of baby bunnies, Wyatt and Cassidy. So their house is lively now, I expect.

Here are more recent photos of Lucy and Charlie Brown outside for playtime, and Sally posing for Noah in the bunny barn.