Early in 2007, we tried something radical: we put our television in the closet to see if we could make better use of our time.  While that move helped break us of a bad habit, it didn't last too long!  Since then, our daughter Lucy was born, and through the early months of her life we let ourselves go brain-dead and went back to watching too many movies (a comfort and a curse).  One night, we finished dinner and had but to open the door to the basement for Joshua to exclaim (in his endearing dialect), "Movie, movie?  Monk?"

    Besides Lucy's birth, we also moved from an apartment to a house, which means we have new opportunities and responsibilities.  We're happy to say that we can now keep our television in a more remote spot (the basement den); we have an enjoyable neighborhood to explore; we are very happy to finally have our piano accessible; we have the space to pull out and leave out things like puzzles or art materials; and we now have a yard (with its accompanying yard work).  But we still hope to do a fair amount of reading in 2008, separately, together as a couple, and to our children - especially Joshua (we'd rather he didn't become a "cheese head"). 

     The list below is the beginning of what we'd like to read in 2008, but we'd also like to keep ourselves more accountable.  So we're listing the movies we've watched too.  Hopefully making that public shames us into watching fewer of them!

Fiction
Lady in Waiting
   Rosemary Sutcliff
Master & Commander
Post Captain (M&C #2)
HMS Surprise (M&C #3)
   Patrick O'Brian
All My Holy Mountain
  Binding of the Blade #5
  L. B. Graham
Strong Poison
Have His Carcase
Gaudy Night
Busman's Honeymoon
   Dorothy Sayers (mysteries)
Byzantium
   Stephen Lawhead
100 Cupboards
   N.D. Wilson
Anna and the King of Siam
    Margaret Landon
Johnny Tremain
    Esther Forbes
Maiden's Bequest
    George MacDonald
Little Prince
    Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Against the Tide
    Hope Irvin Marston

Non-Fiction
Standing on the Promises
   Doug Wilson
A Way of Seeing
   Edith Schaeffer
Female Piety

Economics in One Lesson
   Henry Hazlitt
Carry On, Jeeves
   P. G. Wodehouse
Angels in the Architecture
   Doug Wilson & Doug Jones
Chronicles of Narnia
   Magician's Nephew
   Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
   Prince Caspian
   Voyage of the Dawn Treader
   Silver Chair
   Horse & His Boy
   Last Battle
   C. S. Lewis
Judges: A Practical & Theological Commentary
    James Jordan

See Last Year's Book List