52 Books In 52 Weeks

Hello!

Spring is upon us and with it San Diego is experiencing a super bloom. I have never seen this place so green and lush with wild flowers sprawling all over.

I thought it is time to do a little update on my progress on one of goals Scott and I created in January 2017. Hopefully each quarter I will give an update :)

This year we decided to participate in 52 books in 52 weeks. We have both been out of graduate school for a number of years and also I recently passed all my state boards; so we figured we are in a unique place to accomplish such a feat. For one, we have the energy (because we are not studying) and two, we don't have kids (just a fuzzy puppy) so our evenings could be dedicated to reading over Netflix and Hulu. :)

On our vacation to the UK we were so inspired by all the beautiful bookstores lining the cobblestone streets (especially up in St. Andrews, Scotland) where tea was served and books of every category, genre and color weaved it's way around the room. We decided to make a list of all the genres of books we hoped to read and also created a few guidelines (I say guidelines because rules are a drag)

We decided we would each get to recommend 3 books to one another. And we also decided we get a maximum of 10 re-reads. (If we didn't have this guideline, Scott would read all 7 of the Harry Potter series probably three times).

Here are the categories we picked in no particular order:

Children Literature
Self-Development
Humor
Mental Health
Spirituality
Classics
Science
History
Biography
Finances
Memoir
Marriage
Poetry
Feminism

Scott and I picked our categories like we were picking team mates in gym class. Scott picked History and I picked Mental Health. He picked Biography and I picked Humor. We both picked Children's Literature because we loveeeeee it. We didn't pick 52 categories because we wanted to give ourselves freedom to read outside of these genres. Scott recently read a whole book on the former Padre's manager, Larry Bowa and I am reading a theory book on Internal Family Systems and neither of these fit entirely within our categories.

I was a little behind for awhile but right now I'm about caught up. I am 1/4 of the way done with meeting my 2017 goal!

Here are the books I've read so far:

1. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink*
2. Out Of Sorts By Sarah Bessey*+
3. Flourish by Margaret Feinberg
4. Sandy Toes by Robin Jones Gunn
5. A Little Princess by Frances Hudgon Burnett*
6. Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther+
7. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by J.K. Rowling
8. The Secret Garden by Frances Hudgon Burnett
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
10. Small Victories By Anne Lammott
11. People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann
12. The Divorce Express by Paula Danziger
13. The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns+
14. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui *+

*Favorites (It is so hard to pick favorites)

+ Would recommend

P.S. Try not to be offended that I didn't recommend Harry Potter to you. There will be many in the world who will. 

P.P.S. I'm reading the Harry Potter series for the first time. #staycalm