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25 list #4

if you know me at all, you know i love to read. but more than that, i just love books. i love looking at them, touching them....even the smell of them.
i love going into bookstores and browsing, wandering, just taking it all in. finding a book that looks good and sitting down in front of the shelf to read it.
the smell of the coffee in the store.
oh my, y'all....i just love me some books....

and so, it's fitting that one of my lists of 25 would be about books....

25 books i love


1. the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
2. the horse and his boy
3. you are special
4. east of eden
5. peter pan
6. searching for god knows what
7. blue like jazz
8. same kind of different as me
9. wuthering heights
10. twilight (the series)
11. pride and prejudice
12. the great gatsby
13. passion and purity
14. the tale of despereaux
15. fairy tales
16. people of the book
17. esther
18. the misadventures of benjamin bartholomew piff
19. the giving tree
20. the gentle art of domesticity
21. cookbooks
22. voyage of the dawn treader
23. redeeming love
24. emily post's etiquette
25. bartlett's book of quotations

yeah, i could probably list 25 more that i love....but instead, here is a second list for today....

25 books i want to read right now (the purple ones i actually own...bought them and never read them...i also just like to buy books that look interesting....)

1. three cups of tea
2. reading lolita in tehran
3. the new donald miller book (oh boy, how i love donald miller)
4. it's not all flowers and sausages
5. the freedom writer's diary
6. forgotten god
7. poetry
8. this is where i leave you
9. northanger abbey
10. mere christianity
11. the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
12. al capone does my tshirts 
13. kids picture books....any, all....
14. a thousand resurrections
15. anna karenina
16. shame of the nation
17. the original peter pan (something about a white lily or something)
18. grimm's fairy tales
19. not for sale
20. the magician's elephant
21. push
22. the mysterious journey of edward tulane
23. alice in wonderland
24. the old testament...yeah, haven't really read a lot of it, but would love to more seriously
25. breaking free


there you have it.
2 lists of 25 for today.
and both about books.
i may have an addiction.

lots of love :)

Comments

Jessie Roberts said…
Oh my goodness, I love reading your blog Brooke! It makes me sad we didn't hang out more when we actually saw each other on a regular basis. Since discovering your blog I've also fallen in love with Post Secrets and the It's Not All Flowers and Sausages blog...thanks! Oh, and my new year's resolution was to read through the Bible this year, you should definitely do it. The Old Testament is so packed full of good stories!
January 6, 2010 at 5:07 PM
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