If you've been reading my blog for any time you'll have worked out that I love reading! I read many parenting books, especially when my children were younger. Here I've chosen 5 of these books that have influenced my parenting. Parenting in the Pew: Guiding Your Children into the Joy of Worship by Robbie Castleman… Continue reading 5 Books That Influenced My Parenting
Tag: non-fiction
September Reading Log
Believe in Me by Susan Lewis Leanne is back in the place where she grew up as she's inherited her aunts house and business. The story is about her struggle with what's happened in her past and trying to help her teenage daughter as well. Leanne fosters a boy whose father is in jail. How… Continue reading September Reading Log
August 2018 Reading Log
As we went away for a week in late August I managed to read 6 books this month including 3 novels. Here's what I read this month: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin As the title suggests the book is about developing habits. Rubin talks about how you can… Continue reading August 2018 Reading Log
July 2018 Reading Log
I managed to finish 3 books in July: The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality by Angus Deaton Talks about how much the world has changed, particularly since WWII. How combating childhood illnesses has increased life expectancy and how many nations are better off. But this has created a bigger gap between… Continue reading July 2018 Reading Log
June 2018 Reading Log
I'm a little late but here's what I finished reading in June. I finished 2 books: Mothers & Others - Edited by Maggie Scott, Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maya Linden and Natalie Kon-yu This is a collection of fiction & non-fiction short stories by Australian writers. Some of the women are mothers and some are… Continue reading June 2018 Reading Log
May 2018 Reading Log
I've mainly read novels this month. We went away for the May Labour Day Long Weekend at the beginning of the month, so I was able to read a few books then. So here's what I read this month: Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam I actually read this in April but forgot to blog… Continue reading May 2018 Reading Log
April 2018 Reading Log
This month I read 8 books: The Celtic Stone by Nick Hawkes I attended a book fair in March. This is one of the books that I bought at the fair. I really enjoyed this story as it was set in both Australia & Scotland. Many of the places mentioned in the book I had been… Continue reading April 2018 Reading Log
March 2018 Reading Log
As the end of March coincided with the beginning of the Easter long weekend & us going away, I managed to read a couple of books right at the end of March. Added to the 2 I read earlier in the month, here's what I read during March: The Myth of Balance by Frank Bealer… Continue reading March 2018 Reading Log
November Reading Log
I actually only finished 1 book this month but found a book that I forgot to add to a reading log a few months ago. I was very close to finishing a 2nd book but it will be listed in next months reading log. So the book that I finished this month was: Faith at… Continue reading November Reading Log
October Reading Log
Well I only managed to finish 1 book this month. However I forgot about a book that I had read in September, so I will write about 2 books in this post. First of all the book I read in September but forgot to include in last months reading log: The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days… Continue reading October Reading Log