Whats on Your Nightstand? for July

Not only has July been crazy busy (not many blog posts even) but also becauseseveral bags came down from the home office with goodies for everyone including a fresh stack of review books to begin so some of my "In Progress" books have been moved to a "wait" pile and I just did not finish much this month in the way of reading and one of the books I did finish was horrible, one of the worst I have ever read.

IN PROGRESS:

Still working on

• The 90 Day Fitness Challenge by Phil and Amy Parham 
• Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts by Ian Morgan Cron

Started:

• Uncompromising: A Heart Claimed By a Radical Love by Hannah Farver
• Jump Off the Hormone Swing: Fly Through the Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Symptoms of PMS and Peri-Menopause by Lorraine Pintus
• Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing by Karen Benke
• The Fine Art of Insincerity: A Novel by Angela Hunt
• Global Soccer Mom: Changing the World Is Easier Than You Think by Shayne Moore

POSSIBILE FUTURE READS:

• Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching by Regie Routman - One of my favorite teacher writers. I am sure this will be excellent.
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

WITH MY KIDS: (just a few)

• Ginger Pye (Young Classic) by Eleanor Estes - My Kids begged me to keep reading this.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis- listened to on CD
• Lentil by Robert McCloskey

FINISHED THIS PAST MONTH: 

• Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning : A Story for Mother Culture ® by Karen Andreola - A sweet little diary set in the 1930s/ nature study encouragement. This was a slow moving story that went nicely with afternoon tea!
• Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld - This book was in a box of books left at my home. It was a New York Times Bestseller although I have no recollection of it.  It was interesting in the way it views the teen years from an adult perspective in a raw manner but also appalling in the worldly and shocking moments with no strong plot line carrying it along. I am not sure why I finished it and I hope deep in my heart that this is not the norm for high school students today. I would strongly not recommend it.  There is too much in it that was not worth reading for anyone.

What are you reading these days?