{ List No. 3 - Books + another Giveaway }

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Books I am reading , want to read or re-read this year:

1. The Magic of Ordinary Days**
2. Playful Learning**
3. Real Marriage *
4. Bittersweet ***
5. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction*
6. Joy For Beginners*
7. A Meal With Jesus*
8. Gift From the Sea*
9. The Mission of Motherhood*
10. Give Them Grace**
11. Grace For the Good Girl*
12. Romancing Your Husband*
13. Tomorrow Will Be Better*
14. Sala's Gift*
15. Growing Grateful Kids: Teaching them to Appreciate an Extraordinary God in Ordinary Places*
16. The Noticer*
17. Unbroken *
18. I Capture The Castle*
19. The Waiting Place*
20. Suprised By Grace*
21. One Thousand Gifts***
22. The Happiness Project**
23. The Things We Cherished*
24. Steady Days: A Journey Towards Inentional , Professional Motherhood*
25.  The Pioneer Woman, Black Heels To Tractor Wheels
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{ * Books I want to read this year, ** Books I am currently reading, *** Books I want to re-read this year .}

Leave your comment here with a book recommendation for me to enter your chance to win a copy of...Bittersweet, Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist. It was one of my very favorite reads of the past year. Here are a few quotes to give you a idea of just how good this book is:

“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” 

“When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.”

“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom."

“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.” 

"..sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”

Side Note: Pintrest is my favorite way to catalog and keep track of books these days.

Also, if you haven't already you have until to tomorrow evening to sign up for these fun little happy-birthday-to-me giveaways.

1. A pretty pair of earring from Crystal B.
2. $20.00 Store Credit from K.Walter Vintage
3. $30.00 Store Credit to Out of the Blue
4. Fall Leaves Tee from Nostalgic Graphic Tees
5. Art print of your choice from Gus + Lula
6. Black + White Family Rules Art Print
7. Lovely Vintage Moleskin Quote Journal

Winner of the book to be announced on Friday, October 21st.