KDanae Reads

Despite my last post about my seemingly absent desire to read, I have read a lot this past month. A lot this past week is more like it. I read Louisa May Alcott's books regarding the March Family in a short 5, maybe 6 days. And that's no joke. I haven't had much else to do. So, I have lost myself in the world of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Laurie. It was wonderful to say the least. And it made me think through some old, yet new thoughts.  For the last few years of high school and all through college, I devoted myself to learning and studying about working with children who tend to be pushed to the outside. Children who tend to be forgotten or given up on by the ones in their lives who can make the most difference. Children who have been classified as at-risk. My degree was in missions and my focus was in children and family ministry. I took classes on child development, crisis intervention/counseling and ministry to children who are at-risk. I thought a lot about what I wou...

So I know it's not the end of the month just yet and that I still have time to get some reading done. But I have done very little reading and I miss it, most of the time. Let me explain. It's been a crazy month for me I feel like. I started off with celebrating the 4th with My Love and some friends from our new church. Then we went on a week long trip to Tennessee with our youth group for a huge church conference (when I say huge I mean there were 1500 high school students there to worship and study!). Then I got back and spent the week trying to settle back into our home with clean laundry and begin the job hunt with more focus (that's a whole set of frustrations on its own and not worth writing about here). But with all of that craziness in my life I haven't spent much time reading. And at times I have missed it. At other times I haven't. When I say that at times I haven't missed reading I mean that I just haven't had any desire to read. I haven...

I am not actively participating in the "Putting the Blog in Balrog" Tolkien event. I am reading the posts they put up and reading the books on my own. But I am not commenting or posting like some of the other readers are. Mostly because I don't have reliable internet, but also because I am not one to write for lots of people to read and I write more just for myself. I have been that way for years and I have a box of journals to testify for me in that and a stack of college papers that people have asked to read but if they aren't one of my professors they don't get to see what I've written. But anyway. That's beside the point. I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since the day I went to the theater to see the first Lord of the Rings movie with my dad at the age of 11 (maybe 12) as a reward for helping out with childcare at his weekly Bible study. After seeing the first movie and then waiting a year anxiously for the second, I took a chance and tackled ...

I am laying on my couch, wrapped up in a blanket despite it being over 100 degrees outside, with a pile of tissues sitting next to me. I have gotten sick. Not sure if it's just a cold or what. But I am miserable nonetheless. So, I am getting some reading in and by some sheer luck have just enough internet connection to get my blogs updated. So here is my final update of what I read in the month of June. I am now about half way through The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien for the "Putting the Blog in Balrog" read-a-long event. This is my fourth or fifth time reading through the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And I love it just as much as now as the first time I read it. I will write about it some this week and again once the group starts reading it (they are currently reading The Hobbit which I just read in December and decided not to re-read again so soon).    The 5 books I read in the month of June: Fields of the Fatherless by Tom Davis - 104 Jane ...