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Oh where did January go?

We are one-twelfth (1/12) of the way through the year 2014 already! While I am still having trouble writing 2014 on paperwork at home and work, January has already disappeared. This is just getting ridiculous. Time is flying by and I can't seem to keep up! Not to mention, I didn't read nearly as much as I would have liked. Time got away from me. Life got crazy. And I just didn't read as fast or as much as I normally do. But oh well. It was only one month, right? It was only the beginning of a new year. I've still got plenty of time, right?!?! Well, not if time keeps going by so fast.   :)

 January had no real rhyme or reason to what I read. But February will. I'm planning to re-read all of my books about my favorite group of missionaries, the Ecuador 5 -- made up of Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Pete Fleming and Ed McCully. I have 5 books about the missionaries and 2 missions strategy books written by Nate's son, Steve. I have been really aching to re-read these books for a couple of months now and I decided February was as good a time as ever. So that's what I'm going to do starting tonight. And I can't wait!

 So, here are my stats for January and I am off to read! Happy reading!

 Books read in January: 
What Can We Do? by David Livermore and Terry Linhart
A Wreath of Snow by Liz Curtis Higgs
My Heart's in the Lowlands by Liz Curtis Higgs 
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World by David Horner 
Silence by Shusaku Endo 
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns

Favorite book read in January: 
a tie between  
A Wreath of Snow by Liz Curtis Higgs
and 
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns 

Least favorite book read in January: 
Silence by Shusaku Endo 
just wasn't what I was expecting 

Number of pages read in January: 
1,919 pages

Number of Classics Club books read so far: 
21 of 76

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