The folks at 5 Minutes For Books host What’s On Your Nightstand? the fourth Tuesday of each month in which we can share about the books we have been reading and/or plan to read. You can learn more about it by clicking the link or the button.
Wow, it’s so hard to believe it’s the last week of April already!!
The books I finished since last time are:
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter, essays on various aspects of the death and resurrection of Christ from people such as Charles H. Spurgeon and Martin Luther to John MacArthur and Joni Eareckson Tada, compiled by Nancy Guthrie. I reviewed it here.
The Hidden Flame by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn, the second in the Acts of Faith series set during the time of the early church in Acts, reviewed here.
Where My Heart Belongs by Tracie Peterson, about a prodigal daughter who comes home and the older sister who stayed behind, and their conflicts and attempts at reconciliation, reviewed here.
Take 3, the third in the Above the Line series about Christian filmmakers by Karen Kingsbury. I didn’t really review it but mentioned it a bit more here.
A Touch of Grace by Lauraine Snelling is the third in her Daughters on Blessing series about of a Norwegian farming family in North Dakota in the 1900s, reviewed here.
I am currently reading:
Port of Two Brothers by Paul Schlener, a village along the Amazon River in Brazil named for two brother missionaries and their families who worked there.
My Heart Restored, a devotional by June Kimmel.
The Telling, next in the Seasons of Grace series by Beverly Lewis about an Amish mother who left her family without explanation in order to try to make something right from her past.
After these I’d like to get to another classic, maybe Emma by Jane Austen or an Agatha Christie novel. Plus I still have a few left from my Spring Reading Thing list plus a new book I just received by Eva Marie Everson titled This Fine Life.
If you like to read, to share about what you’re reading, and/or to get good ideas for your own reading list, I hope you’ll join us at What’s On Your Nightstand.
Stray Thoughts 
OOOhh – The Telling looks good and interesting. 🙂 Might just have to check that one out.
You’ve got lots o’ great books listed–thanks so much for sharing!
And, yes, do check out ‘Fireworks Over Toccoa’, tis a sweet, cozy read.
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Port of Two Brothers sounds very intriguing. I’ll look forward to hearing your thoughts on that!
This year is flying by two fast. I’m putting on the breaks, trying to decide what it is that I REALLY want to read before this year is out. If I don’t figure that out soon, I’m afraid the whole year will slip away and I’ll still have “reading regrets.”
I will add “Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross” for my next year’s Lent reading. Thanks for all the extra ideas!
I’m half envying your nonchalance about what you’ll be reading next. I always check way too many books out of the library and end up having to choose my reading based on what’s due next!
I’m on the waiting list for Take 3 at the library. I haven’t been reading many other Kingsbury books lately, but I do like to touch base with the Baxters!
I recently read Emma and enjoyed it – then I saw the DVD, which I always enjoy too 🙂
I didn’t know about that Beverly Lewis series – thank you for alerting me!
Looks like a good couple of months of reading.
I haven’t seen my night stand in a week. I will soon be home and am lloking forward to putting the book I am supposed to be reading on it. My book is on overcoming sleep disorders and it seems to be working. I go to sleep everything I start reading it.
What a list, Barbara. I am glad I am not the only that has multiple books going on at the same time… 😉
I finally got around to the first book in the Acts of Faith series last November. Maybe I will pick up the new one now that I have read your review. Thanks for sharing.