Mommy Brain

2005

White by Ted Dekker - 3 stars

Eyes of Elisha by Brandilyn Collins - 3 stars

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - 5 stars

Tiger Lillie by Lisa Samson - 4 stars

The Last Disciple by Hank Hannegraaf - 3 stars

Mom’s Everything Book for Daughters by Becky Freeman - 3 stars

Mom’s Everything Book for Sons by Becky Freeman - 3 stars

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal - 4 stars

At the Scent of Water by Linda Nichols - 4 stars

Sandpebbles by Patricia Hickman - 4 stars

Dread Champion by Brandilyn Collins - 3 stars

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell - 5 stars

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult - 3 stars

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss - 4 stars

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 4 stars

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell - 4 stars

A Tale of Three Kings: a Study in Brokenness by Gene Edwards - 4 stars

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks - 4 stars

The Broker by John Grisham - 3 stars

A Continual Feast by Jan Karon - 4 stars

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger - 4 stars

March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks - 3 stars

Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Nibley Beck - 3 stars

A Patchwork Planet (audiobook) by Anne Tyler - 5 stars

Home Learning Year By Year by Rebecca Rupp - 3 stars

The Lazarus Trap by Davis Bunn - 3 stars

Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman’s Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond by Deborah Laake - 3 stars

Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax - 4 stars

Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney - 5 stars

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - 4 stars

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Ever Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl - 3 stars

B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

Evensong by Gail Godwin - 4 stars

C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson - 2 stars

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl - 3 stars

I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brendan Manning - 4 stars

J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

K is for Killer by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

M is for Malice by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

N is for Noose by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

P is for Peril by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ John Piper & Justin Taylor, Editors - 4 stars

R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton - 3 stars

The Moms’ Guide to Meal Makeovers: Improving the Way Your Family Eats, One Meal at a Time! by Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss - 3 stars

On Writing by Stephen King - 4 stars

The Victory Club by Robin Lee Hatcher - 4 stars

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 3 stars

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 4 stars

The Bible or the Axe: One Man’s Dramatic Escape from Persecution in the Sudan by William O. Levi - 3 stars

In the Beginning There Were No Diapers by Tim Bete - 4 stars

The Justice by Angela Hunt - 4 stars

Grace for the Race: Meditations for Busy Moms by Dena Dyer - 3 stars

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and Other Things I’ve Learned by Alan Alda - 4 stars

Notes From a Small Island (audiobook) by Bill Bryson - 4 stars

Heaven by Randy Alcorn - 5 stars

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon - 5 stars

Brokenness: How God Redeems Pain and Suffering by Lon Solomon - 4 stars

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler - 3 stars

Songbird by Lisa Samson - 4 stars

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg - 2 stars

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss - 4 stars

Outrageous Love by Sheila Walsh - 3 stars

Run Plant Fly by Ellie Belew - 4 stars

The Difference Between Men and Women: Stories by Brett Lott - 3 stars

Making It Up by Penelope Lively - 3 stars

Snow in August by Pete Hamill - 4 stars

2006

Cooks Overboard by Joanne Spence - 2-and-a-half stars

1776 by David McCullough - 3 stars - my thoughts

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott - 4 stars -
favorite passages

Homestead by Rosina Lippi - 5 stars - favorite passages

The Fulness of Times by Ron Rennick - 3 and a half stars

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less by Terry Ryan - 4 stars - my thoughts

Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen - 3 stars

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 3 stars - my thoughts

Club Sandwich by Lisa Samson - 4 stars

Light From Heaven by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice (audiobook) - 4 stars

Jack’s Life: A Memory of C. S. Lewis by Douglas H. Gresham - 4 stars - favorite passages

S is for Silence by Sue Grafton - 5 stars

Good Grief by Lolly Winston - 4 stars - my thoughts

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge - 2 and a half stars - my thoughts

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith - 3 and a half stars

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - 3 stars

The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs - 4 stars - my thoughts and some favorite passages

The Novelist by Angela Hunt - 4 stars

Atonement by Ian McEwan - 2 and a half stars

Fresh Brewed Life by Nicole Johnson (re-read) - 5 stars - my (many) thoughts

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates - 2 stars

Obsessed by Ted Dekker - 3 stars

Last Light by Terri Blackstock - 3 and a half stars

Where Is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey - 4 stars - favorite passages and my thoughts

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz - 3 stars

Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey - 5 stars - some of my favorite passages

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 5 stars

Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 3 and a half stars - favorite passage

Trinity by Leon Uris - 4 and a half stars - thoughts and a favorite passage

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien - 4 stars - my thoughts

Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself In Books by Maureen Corrigan - 2 and a half stars - my thoughts

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby - 3 and a half stars

Levi’s Will by W. Dale Cramer (audiobook) - 4 stars

Patrick: Son of Ireland by Stephen R. Lawhead - 3 stars

The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart - 4 stars - my thoughts

A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle - 4 stars - my thoughts and favorite passages

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton - 3 stars - my thoughts, favorite passages

The Ha-Ha by Dave King - 2 and a half stars

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller - 4 stars - favorite passages

A Year With C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings From His Classic Works - 5 stars

Everything and a Kite by Ray Romano (audiobook) - 3 stars

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (audiobook) - 4 stars

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom by Mary Griffith - 4 stars

A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levinson - 2 and a half stars

A Light in the Window by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

A Common Life by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

The Way of the Wilderking by Jonathan Rogers - 3 and a half stars

These High Green Hills by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling - 4 stars

Out to Canaan by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

A New Song by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 4 and a half stars

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling - 4 and a half stars

In This Mountain by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 5 stars

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling - 5 stars

Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 4 stars

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling - 4 stars

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling - 4 stars

Night Light by Terri Blackstock - 3 stars

Monster by Frank Peretti (audiobook) - 3 and a half stars

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (audiobook) - 4 stars

Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis - 4 stars

Pirates by Celia Rees (audiobook) - 4 and a half stars - review

Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen (audiobook) - 4 stars

Persuasion by Jane Austen - 5 stars - favorite passage

Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (audiobook) - 3 stars

Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La! by Robin Jones Gunn (audiobook) - 3 and a half stars

Looking for God in Harry Potter by John Granger - 4 stars - review

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 5 stars

How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen - 4 stars - my thoughts

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - 5 stars - review

Sisterchicks Down Under by Robin Jones Gunn (audiobook) - 3 and a half stars

Angels in the Snow: A Novella by Melody Carlson - 3 and a half stars

No Room at the Inn: A Novella by Melody Carlson - 3 and a half stars

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose - 5 stars - my thoughts

Living Under God by Toby Mac & Michael Tait - 3 stars - review

Connecting With Your Kids by Timothy Smith - 3 and a half stars - review

The Witness by Dee Henderson - 4 stars - review

Credo: Believing in Something to Die For by Ray Pritchard - 4 stars - review

Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom by Joseph A. Klein - 3 stars - review

The Bark of the Bog Owl (The Wilderking Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Rogers - 4 and a half stars - review

The Secret of the Swamp King (The Wilderking Trilogy, Book 2) by Jonathan Rogers - 4 stars - review

Presumed Guilty by James Scott Bell - 4 stars - review

Divine by Karen Kingsbury - 4 stars - review

He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph C. Phillips - 4 stars - review

Before I Wake by Dee Henderson - 3 and a half stars - review

Magdalene by Angela Elwell Hunt - 4 stars - review

Confessions of Super Mom by Melanie Lynne Hauser - 3 and a half stars - review

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? by Phillip Yancey - 4 and a half stars - review

Straight Up by Lisa Samson - 5 stars - review

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling - 4 and a half stars

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - 3 and a half stars

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle - 3 and a half stars

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo - 4 stars

2007

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 5 stars - related post

Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour - 5 stars - related post

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary - 5 stars - related post

An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor - 5 stars - related post

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (audiobook) - 5 stars - related post

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (audiobook) - 5 stars

The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982 - 5 stars - related post

To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose - 5 stars - related post

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (read aloud to the kids) - 5 stars - related post

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (audiobook) - 5 stars

That Distant Land: The Collected Stories by Wendell Berry - 5 stars

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling - 5 stars

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling - 5 stars

River Rising by Athol Dickson - 5 stars - related post

Night by Elie Wiesel - 5 stars - related post

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor - 5 stars - related post

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - 5 stars - related post

Emma by Jane Austen - 5 stars - related post

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 5 stars - related post

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling - 5 stars - related post

Persuasion by Jane Austen - 5 stars

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen - 5 stars - related post

Summer of Light by W. Dale Cramer (audiobook) - 5 stars - related post

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset - 5 stars - related post

The Trouble with Poetry: and Other Poems by Billy Collins - 5 stars

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 5 stars

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda - 5 stars - related post

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - 5 stars

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 5 stars - related post

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (audiobook) - 5 stars - related post

The Cure by Athol Dickson - 5 stars - related post

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 5 stars - related post

All She Ever Wanted by Lynn Austin (audiobook) - 5 stars

The Duel by Anton Chekhov (translated by Constance Garnett) - 4 stars

The Children of Men by P. D. James - 4 stars - related post

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (read aloud to the kids) - 4 stars - related post

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction by Kate Chopin - 4 stars - related post

Great American Women’s Fiction: Ten Unabridged Classics by Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, & Charlotte Perkins Gilman (audiobook) - 4 stars

Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson - 4 stars - related post

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (read aloud to Natalie) - 4 stars

Super Mom Saves the World by Melanie Lynne Hauser - 4 stars - related post

My Own Two Feet: A Memoir by Beverly Cleary - 4 stars

Take Joy: A Writer’s Guide to Loving the Craft by Jane Yolen - 4 stars - related post

The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard (audiobook) - 4 stars

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 4 stars - related post

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (audiobook) - 4 stars

I Went to Vassar For This? by Naomi Neale (audiobook) - 4 stars

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman - 4 stars - related post

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays by Wendell Berry - 4 stars

The Living End by Lisa Samson - 4 stars

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards - 4 stars

Return to Me by Robin Lee Hatcher - 4 stars - related post

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (audiobook) - 4 stars

Echoes by Maeve Binchy - 4 stars

The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy - 4 stars

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - 4 stars

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 4 stars - related post

In Search of Eden by Linda Nichols (audiobook) - 4 stars

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 4 stars - related post

Sisterchicks in Gondolas by Robin Jones Gunn (audiobook) - 4 stars

Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell - 4 stars

Austenland by Shannon Hale - 4 stars - related post

The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton - 4 stars

The Teacher’s Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck (read aloud to the kids) - 4 stars - related post

I’ll Watch the Moon by Ann Tatlock (audiobook) - 4 stars

Rules by Cynthia Lord (audiobook) - 4 stars

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (audiobook) - 4 stars

Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout - 4 stars - related
post

Unnatural Causes by P.D. James (audiobook) - 4 stars

Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset - 4 stars - related post

The Book Without Words by Avi - 4 stars

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier (audiobook) - 4 stars

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke - 4 stars

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi - 4 stars

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde - 4 stars

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs - 4 stars - related post

The Warden by Anthony Trollope - 4 stars

The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick (read aloud to Natalie) - 4 stars

Jotham’s Journey: A Storybook for Advent by Arnold Ytreeide (read aloud) - 4 stars

Arthur and George by Julian Barnes - 4 stars

Bibliotopia Or, Mr. Gilbar’s Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts And Curiosities compiled by Steven Gilbar - 3 stars - related post

An Irish Christmas Feast: The Best of John B. Keane - 3 stars

Proverbs and Sayings of Ireland Edited by Sean Gaffney & Seamus Cashman - 3 stars

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman - 3 stars

Redemption by Leon Uris - 3 stars - related post

The Collected Works of Emily Dickinson - 3 stars

Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times - 3 stars - related post

The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Krauss & Emma McLaughlin - 3 stars

The Tales of Chekhov, Volume 1 by Anton Chekhov - 3 stars

Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet’s Life by Allan Wolf - 3 stars

The Dragon’s Eye: The Dragonology Chronicles, Volume 1 by Dugald A. Steer (read aloud to Noah) - 3 stars

The Last Girls by Lee Smith (audiobook) - 3 stars

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