KDanae Reads

It's Tuesday which means it time for a TOP TEN TUESDAY post hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is about the Top Ten words that describe a book or a part of a book and/or book topics that I can't resist picking up and reading. So without further ado here is my Top Ten list. :) 1. Christian Missions... this has been a passion for mine since I was in 8th grade,  not to mention what my Bachelors degree is in 2. Ecuador and the 5 missionary men killed by the Waodani Indians... again, a passion of mine  since 8th grade and my first missions trip in 2004 3. A strong heroine... I like books where a girl is the center of the story and shares life  through her eyes or in her words 4. World War 2... I love history and the 2nd World War has always fascinated me,  especially Pearl Harbor 5. Morals... I like to be challenged in my thinking of good and evil andto have to find  the moral of a story within the setting, characters and plot

I read so much in April! I'm pretty sure it was a record month both in how many titles read and how many pages read. I just couldn't help myself. I just couldn't put my books down. Two weeks ago I started a marathon re-read of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I read all 9 of them in 10 days. I was lost in the world of the late 1800s as the West was settled and Laura roamed the prairies with Mary, Carrie and Almanzo. And I have to admit that I did fall in love all over again with Almanzo. It was just like when I was little and first watched the shows with my mom in the mornings before schoolwork had to be done. It was a wonderful 10 days of marathon reading.  Everything I read this month was fantastic, with the exception of The Great Gatsby . I wasn't real impressed with that one, but at least I can say I have it read now. And with that said... here are my record-breaking stats for the month of April!   Books read:   Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Paris

Earlier this week (on Monday actually), I walked through a doorway that led me to Paris in the 1920s. I walked through the pages of a story about the life of Hadley Richardson Hemingway. I walked into her world and saw things through her eyes (or rather Paula McLain's thoughts). I walked through a doorway and escaped into a world so very different than my own. And that is part of why I love reading so very much. I have said it before and will say it again and again. But I love the escape that reading becomes. I love the fact that I can explore and experience so many things just by curling up in a comfy chair with a well-written book. I love that I can crawl into the life of Hadley Richardson Hemingway or countless other real people or fictional characters. And I love that there are authors who are so willing to make that possible. Paula McLain definitely did a great job of creating a story and a world that I could crawl into. Her book, The Paris Wife, was one that I didn't wa

I finished my book for the Classic Spin challenge! I started Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens on Monday (April 1st) and finished it late last night (April 5th). And let me just say that I loved every word of it! It was incredibly hard to put down on numerous occasions (mostly just before work or at night when I should have been sleeping). And to be honest it was the perfect "first read" experience that everyone raves about when they find that one gem of a book. It's kind of sad to know I will never have that experience again with Oliver Twist ; unless of course I don't re-read it for years and years, then maybe I will. But even then it may not be the exact same. Well, when I was younger, my first introduction to Oliver Twist was the 1968 movie Oliver starring Mark Lester as Oliver, Ron Moody as Fagin and Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger. My grandma had it on VHS and we (my siblings and I) may or may not have permanently borrowed it from her due to falling in love wi

It is the first day of April and we are a now a fourth of the way through the year 2013. How crazy does that sound? I honestly can't believe it. Spring weather has been pretty picky lately here in the Midwest, complete with 55 degree weather one day and freak snowstorms the next.  But nonetheless spring and summer are on their way and I am oh so excited. With it now being April, my fast from reading anything not written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer or C.S. Lewis has come to an end. I read a lot of philosophical and spiritual (Christian) writings from those two gentlemen over the last month and a half. Some of the books by Lewis really gave me a headache because of how much they required me to really pay attention and think through the ideas, theories and beliefs he was presenting. After almost a whole month, I was pretty worn out with those types of books. And last Tuesday came along leaving me with only 5 days til the season of Lent was over. And I couldn't take much more philoso