{"id":16064,"date":"2019-01-04T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=16064"},"modified":"2019-01-04T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:48:08","slug":"books-i-read-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/books-i-read-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I Read in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My top four books are in bold. The winners are a memoir, an economics book, a book about depression and anxiety, and a book of essays. It seems I liked books that challenged my way of thinking this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea<\/em> by Hyeonseo Lee (This was good, and eye opening)<\/li>
  2. Emma<\/em> by Jane Austen (I read this every few years.)<\/li>
  3. No Life for a Lady<\/em> by Agnes Morley Cleaveland (Memoir of ranch life in New Mexico 1870s-1930s)(Engaging, interesting, and made me want to go to New Mexico again.)<\/li>
  4. You are Boring, but You are Uniquely Boring: 25 Models for Writing Your Memoir<\/em> by Louise Plummer and Ann Cannon (a good, easy guide)<\/li>
  5. The Book of Mormon<\/em><\/li>
  6. The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife<\/em> by Diane Ackerman (pretty good)<\/li>
  7. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson<\/em> by Gordon S. Wood (I liked the beginning and ending but the middle had a little too much political theory for me.)<\/li>
  8. The Book of Mormon<\/em> (This was our family reading that took us about two years this time, maybe longer.)<\/li>
  9. The Book of Mormon<\/em> (I focused on pulling out concise doctrines and phrases for a new project.)<\/li>
  10. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk<\/em> (Not recommended.)<\/li>
  11. Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort<\/em> by Cecil Woodham-Smith (Minus the chapters about the Crimea and India, I liked it.)<\/li>
  12. Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country<\/em>by Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy (Not about politics, this book about friendship made me want to be a better neighbor.)<\/li>
  13. Still Alice<\/em> by Lisa Genova (I loved it.)<\/li>
  14. Homegoing<\/em> by Yaa Gyasi (A lot of the content made me uncomfortable, but it is quite a story.)<\/li>
  15. Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness<\/strong><\/em> by Rebecca Solnit<\/strong> (I loved the variety of essays in this book. The essay on Thoreau and his sisters was my favorite. I loved the concept that sister is a verb\u2026)<\/li>
  16. The Gospel Comes With a House Key<\/em> by Rosaria Butterfield (This is about the power of Christian hospitality. Unfortunately, I did not feel hospitality in her choice of language. It felt like she was writing to an exclusive group, with its own vernacular, which was somewhat unclear to me. I still loved her and I still felt inspired to open my home and my life to others to help bring people to Christ.)<\/li>
  17. Who Cooked Adam Smith\u2019s Dinner? A Story of Women and Economics<\/strong><\/em> by Katherine Marcal <\/strong>(She introduced ideas that were completely new to me. I am still thinking about it. I didn\u2019t agree with everything she said, but this is an important book.)<\/li>
  18. The Book of Mormon<\/em> (focus: ministering)<\/li>
  19. My Life in Middlemarch<\/em> by Rebecca Mead (The most comforting, familiar book I could think to read after Daniel left home.)<\/li>
  20. America\u2019s First Daughter<\/em> by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie (I couldn\u2019t put it down.)<\/li>
  21. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and Anxiety and the Unexpected Solutions<\/strong><\/em> by Johann Hari<\/strong> (This challenges everything I thought I understood about depression and anxiety. I didn\u2019t agree with all of his proposed solutions, but so much of this made sense to me. Highly recommended.)<\/li>
  22. Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, Volume 1. The Standard of Truth, 1815-1846.<\/em> (Really good.)<\/li>
  23. Present Over Perfect<\/em> by Shauna Niequist (Some good truths here.)<\/li>
  24. The Book of Mormon<\/em> (focus: references which include Christ)<\/li>
  25. Mama\u2019s Bank Account<\/strong><\/em> by Kathryn Forbes<\/strong> (I absolutely loved it.)<\/li>
  26. The Persian Pickle Club<\/em> by Sandra Dallas<\/li>
  27. The Gift if the Magi<\/em> by O Henry<\/li>
  28. A Christmas Carol<\/em> by Charles Dickins<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My top four books are in bold. The winners are a memoir, an economics book, a book about depression and anxiety, and a book of essays. It seems I liked books that challenged my way of thinking this year. The Girl With Seven Names: Escape From North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee (This was good, and eye … Continue reading Books I Read in 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16072,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions\/16072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}