2013 Reading Reflections posted 1-6-14
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor Frankl
The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey (AK)
Storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Romeo: The Story of An Alaskan Wolf – John Hyde (AK, RA)
Starry River of the Sky – Grace Lin (RA)
Liar & Spy – Rebecca Stead (RA)
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey From the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games – Lopez Lomong
Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1 – Colin Meloy (RA)
The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska – Sherry Simpson (AK)
Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life – Maria Ross
Surviving the Island of Grace: Life on the Wild Edge of America – Leslie Leyland Fields (AK)
Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 2 – Colin Meloy (RA)
Telling Secrets – Frederick Buechner
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin (RA)
The Sea Captain’s Wife: A Novel – Beth Powning
Henry Huggins – Beverly Cleary (RA)
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers – Anne Lamott
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles – Heather Lende (AK)
The Magician’s Elephant – Kate DiCamillo
Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver
Henry & Ribsy – Beverly Cleary (RA)
Building A Life Out of Words – Shawn Smucker
Henry & Beezus – Beverly Cleary (RA)
The Dog Says How – Kevin Kling
Ordinary Wolves: A Novel – Seth Kantner (AK)
Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – Jonathan Auxier (RA)
Holes – Louis Sachar (RA)
Still Points North – Leigh Newman (AK)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel – Robin Sloan
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (RA)
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life – Marion Roach Smith
Tattoos On the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion – Gregory Boyle
Shopping For Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska – Seth Kantner (AK)
Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job – Jon Acuff
Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes – Shauna Niequist
The Chronicles of Prydain: Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander (RA)
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles – Julie Andrews Edwards (RA)
And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park (RA)
The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
Colony Kids: Adventures of the First Year in Alaska – Heather Lehe (AK, RA)
North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey – Shannon Polson (AK)
Kite Fighters – Linda Sue Park (RA)
When Mockingbirds Sing – Billy Coffey
The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family – Josh Hanagame
Keeping Score – Linda Sue Park (RA)
A Long Walk To Water – Linda Sue Park (RA)
The Growly Books: Begin – Philip Ulrich & Erin Ulrich (RA)
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
eleanor & park – Rainbow Rowell
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg (RA)
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots & Wings – Kenneth R. Ginsburg
And It Was Good: Reflections On Beginnings – Madeleine L’Engle
Looking for Alaska – John Green
Navigating Early – Clare Vanderpool (RA)
The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer
How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp: And Other Tales From Our 10,000-Mile Adventure – Shawn Smucker
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic – Jennifer Trafton (RA)
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
My One Square Inch of Alaska – Sharon Short
Glaciers – Alexis Smith
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon – Steve Sheinken (RA)
Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
small faith Great God – NT Wright
the fingertips of Duncan Dorfman – Meg Wolitzer
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
On the Banks of Plum Creek – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice – Terry Tempest Williams
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art – Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery – Steve Sheinkin (RA)
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer – Christian Wiman
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)
Bo at Ballard Creek – Kirkpatrick Hill (AK, RA)
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice – Rebecca Musser
By the Shores of Silver Lake – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
A Stone for A Pillow: Journeys with Jacob – Madeleine L’Engle
The Art Forger – B.A. Shapiro
Castle In the Air – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint – Nadia Bolz-Weber
Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier – Tom Kizzia (AK)
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky – Heidi W. Durrow
Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
Out of My Mind – Sharon M. Draper
House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for the Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – Daniel James Brown
The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair – Anne Lamott
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems – Mary Oliver
Water Castle – Megan Frazer Blakemore (RA)
Counting By 7s – Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Dragon’s Tooth – N.D. Wilson (RA)
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures – Kate DiCamillo
Little Town on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)
Fortunately The Milk – Neil Gaiman (RA)
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didon
The Drowned Vault – N.D. Wilson (RA)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family – Alex Haley
Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things – Ken Wytsma
Beautiful Boy – David Sheff
Gold – Barbara Crooker
The Cay – Theodore Taylor
Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Boy On the Wooden Box – Leon Leyson
Timothy of the Cay – Theodore Taylor
Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for An Inspired Life – Jack Levison
Sun Shine Down – Gillian Marchenko
Several Short Sentences About Writing – Verlyn Klinkenborg
Steal Like An Artist – Austin Kleon
The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald