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July 31, 2006
Little Miss Reformed and more
Well, I've been wanting to highlight my amazing friend Heather and her blog for some time, but just haven't gotten around to it. However, now that she has "tagged" me about book titles, quoted me, and posted pictures of one of my list of former hometowns (Grand Haven, MI), all in the last 48 hours or so, I feel it's an appropriate time.
First, let me tell you about this little spitfire of a woman. She's a whole five feet and two inches of God-lovin', honest, extroverted, funny, ridiculous beauty and she's one of my favourite BFFs. AND she knows how to appropriately, gracefully, strongly be a woman, which is trickier and trickier in a world of passive men and hardened, controlling woMEN. (You know, the ones that might eat you for breakfast if you even suggest that they're anything but vastly superior to men.) Anyway. She's fantastic, she has my same name, and I love her blog.
Now, to fulfill the taggage. I think that means I'm supposed to answer the following questions:
1. One book that changed your life:
Fresh-Brewed Life by Nicole Johnson. (Again, it helps that we have practically the same name.)
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. About 800 times, or maybe just 5 or 6.
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Ooh, what about a choose your own adventure?!? That could at least while away some hours.
4. One book that made you laugh:
Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Emily Colas.
5. One book that made you cry:
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. And Shiloh. And "Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin" by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. And King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. And a number of others, I'm sure on it. (Ok, when required reading for college history classes sets me off, it's time to just get a grip. And yes, Heather, Bridge to Terabithia kills me, too. Just thinking about it gets me kind of upset.)
6. One book that you wish had been written:
How To Die To Self Without Your Self Dying.
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. (Don't get me started!)
8. One book you’re currently reading:
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs.
10. Now tag five people:
This part kind of cheeses me off a bit, too, but whatever, let's all play along! Now I'm curious about just about everyone out there, but these are the ones I'm gonna go ahead and tag just because.
Tuggy
Laura W.
Neil
Claire
Barbara H. (a.k.a. surrogate Mama)
| By Heather | 12:36 AM
Comments
Actually, I'm only 5'2" when I'm wearing shoes. :-) But everything else is mostly true. :-) Without the exaggerated fabulousness. You're the sweetest. Even if you do like funny smells. :-)
Posted by: Little Miss at July 31, 2006 10:23 AM
Here it is Heather! Again, sorry about Sat. I wish I could have helped out.
1. One book that changed your life:
Oscar Romero homily / Amy Carmichael words/ a book about Joan d'arc (when I was small)
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Kid's books: Scott O'Dell stories, "The Princess and the Goblin" by George Macdonald, "Treasures of the Snow" and "Rainbow Garden" by Patricia St. John, "These Happy Golden Years" by LIW.
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
The Bible-- hopefully I would read more of it this way / War and Peace ( I would have time to read it) / Amy Carmicheal--despite her thick, Victorian language, her writing comforts me like no other.
4. One book that made you laugh:
""My Family and other Animals" by Gerald Durrell
5. One book that made you cry:
Denise Levertov poems / Autobiography about Chana Szenes / most recently Bridge to Terabithia which literally made me sob on the bathroom floor.
6. One book that you wish had been written:
"A Guide to S. Spring"
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
"Mein Kampf" / "Captain Underwear Series"
8. One book you’re currently reading:
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard.
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Suzanne Childress poems (a poet I heard recently at a writers conference / Scott Cairns / Lauren Winner's "Girl meets God".
10. Now tag five people:
Meg
Sara W.
Tanya
Heidi H.
Heidi V. W
*George (I'm not sure if your on here? )
Posted by: Laura at July 31, 2006 05:10 PM
oh heather, this is going to make me think. it may even make me think enough to post it on my own blog if i ever start it : ) still pondering the title of course. anyway, here goes...
1. One book that changed your life:
The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (many many years ago, but I used to read it over and over again), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I've also read "Goodnight Moon" and "Cars, Trucks and things that Go" more times than any adult ever should : )
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
The Bible, I gotta agree with Laura, maybe I would read more of it :)
4. One book that made you laugh:
I really haven't read anything that made me crack up laughing in a while. Maybe I'll get some suggestions from other people's responses.
5. One book that made you cry:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
6. One book that you wish had been written:
Cliffs Notes for my grad school textbooks.
7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Several of my college textbooks, and some of the new children's books that either don't make sense or are just plain weird.
8. One book you’re currently reading:
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Desiring God by John Piper, technically I've started reading it, but that was about two years ago.
10. Now tag five people:
Angela
Lindsey Massoud
Lloyd
Jenny B.
Amy L.
Okay I have to admit I think this is really fun and I'm hoping to get some suggestions for things to read in the rest of my time off from school!
Posted by: Claire at July 31, 2006 07:16 PM
hey, thanks for starting nerd tag...you did, didn't you? i also enjoyed your "writing exhumed"...you are FINALLY on my blog roll, so now i can stalk your and all of my friends' inner thoughts....mooo-oooh--ah--ah-ahhhh...
Posted by: ange at August 3, 2006 09:38 AM