A Book to D.I. For!

A few weeks ago I posted a quote by Emma McKay that I had found. A couple of people asked me where I had gotten that quote.

It is taken from a talk given by Sis. McKay at BYU on April 12, 1952. I checked on Ebay and you can buy a copy of the pamplet of that speech for about $50. Gulp!

Or, you can do what I did and head to your nearest D.I. (Deseret Industries=Goodwill type thrift store) and pick up a copy of the book titled Motherhood - A Partnership with God.

A few years back I was going through a particularly hard time and wondering why God was picking on me. I was reading and praying alot to understand my role as a wife and mother and while at D.I. one day this book caught my eye so I picked it up. It is a compilation of quotes, articles and speeches from prophets and others notable Church leaders. It was published in 1956, by Harold Lundstrom and Bookcraft Publishers. I skimmed through it and read through the table of contents and it looked interesting so I shelled out my $2 and brought it home. I did not read all of it at that time, just some parts that seemed to pertain to what I felt was my problem. In the past few months I've picked it up again and am going through it and I'm LOVING it. I know, it's old and those people(men) don't understand about being a woman and life is so different now. . . . What I'm finding is that the things in it are speaking to my heart and it is answering with such peaceful feelings about the path I've chosen.

I've learned for myself that the words of the prophets have no expiration date on them and are just as applicable now as they were when they were spoken. I have found much peace in my life as I have tried to align my life with those teachings and counsel. This book has helped me and encouraged me.

My Book List

I have seen a few other people do this on their blogs and I thought it was a good idea. If I post my list of to read/have read books here then I will always know where to look. If I just try to keep track of my scrap of paper. . . .it will be lost in a day or two.

I'm hoping that by keeping this list I will be able to also write in future posts about some of these books as I read them.

*Green indicates that I have read, Red indicates that I have read to the children.

Potok, The Chosen(?)
Bronte, Jane Eyre(?)
Stratton-Porter, Laddie
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Bastiat, What is Seen and What is Not Seen*
Johnson & Johnson, The One Minute Teacher
Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Dickens, Great Expectations
Frank, Alas Babylon
Gardner, Multiple Intelligences*
Gatto, The 7 Lesson School Teacher*
Harward, A Market-Based Education
Holt, How Children Learn
Kavanaugh, Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Noebel, Understanding the Times
Hugo, Les Miserables
Shakespeare, five plays
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning
Thoreau, Walden
Wister, The Virginian(* = articles found in the books Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy & Gatto, Dumbing Us Down)
Ten Boom, The Hiding Place(2007)
Monnett, Awakening to Our Awful Situation
Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap
Campbell, Eve and the Choice Made in Eden(2005)
Wilcox, Fire in the Bones(2006)
Lossing, Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Monnett, Revealed Educational Principles and the Public Schools(2007)
Lundstrom, Motherhood, A Partnership with God
DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education(2007)
Moody, Shaking the Nickel Bush(2007)
Aldrich, A Lantern in her Hand(2007)
Gaskell, Ruth(2007)
Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
Gaskell, North and South
Marshall, A Man Called Peter(2005?)
Marshall, Christy(2007)
Marshall, Beyond Ourselves(2004?)
Wallace, Ben Hur
L'amour, The Walking Drum(2007-family read aloud)
L'amour, The Lonesome Gods(2007-family read aloud)
L'amour, Bendigo Shafter (2007-family read aloud)
Keller, The Story of My Life(2007)
Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man
Hansen, Running With Angels(2007)
Robinson, Believing Christ(?)
Robinson, Following Christ(?)
Philbrick, Revenge of the Whale(2005)
Mandino, The Christ Commission(?)
Grandma Moses, My Life's History
The American Story
The Romance of North America
Holt, Exiled(2006)
History of the United States

To read with the kids:
Alcott, Little Women(2007)
Alcott, Little Men
Alcott, Jo's Boys
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys(2008)
Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
Moody,Little Britches(2007)
Moody, Mary Emma and Company(2007)
Rinaldi, The Fifth of March(2008)
Rinaldi, A Break with Charity(2008)
Speare, The Calico Captive(2008)
Hale, The Princess Academy(2008)
Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(2006?)
Wilder, Little House (series)(2007-8)
Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo
Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
Porter, Pollyanna
Porter, Just David(2008)
Burnett, A Little Princess
Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables(2007)
Speare, The Bronze Bow(2007-8, family read aloud)
Spyri, Heidi
Burnett, The Secret Garden
George, My Side of the Mountain (series)
Stevenson, Treasure Island
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Twain, Tom Sawyer
Twain, Huck Finn
Collodi, Pinnochio
Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty