Books read in 2023:
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life | Sutton Foster |
Design Mom: A room by room guide to living well with kids | Gabrielle Stanley Blair |
Write For Your Life | Anna Quindlen |
The Fixer | Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows |
The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living | Louise Miller |
Apple Pies and Promises: Motherhood in the Real World | Linda Hoffman Kimball |
The Mother Tree | Kathryn Knight Sonntag |
CHERISH: the Joy of Our Mother in Heaven | ME!!! & Ashli Carnicelli & McArthur Krishna |
Listen Learn & Love 3: Building the Good Ship Zion | Richard Ostler |
Without the Mask | Charlie Bird |
Girls Camp: Ideas for Today’s Leaders | Marci McPhee & Julia B. Blake |
Anne’s House of Dreams no.5 (read aloud) | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
What I Like About You | Marisa Kanter |
The Night Garden | Lisa Van Allen |
Beehive Girl | Mikayla Orton Thatcher |
Beyond Belief | Russ Hinckley |
Messy Minimalism | Rachelle Crawford |
The President’s Shadow | Brad Meltzer |
Beach Read | Emily Henry |
Twice a Quinceanera | Yamile Saied Mendez |
The Hotel Nantucket | Elin Hilderbrand |
28 Summers | Elin Hilderbrand |
Grace Eventually: Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott |
- Total: 24
- Editing projects: 3
- Fiction: 11 (that’s the most fiction I’ve read in a LONG time). Favorite – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
- Memoir: 4. Favorite – Beehive Girl
- LDS commentary: 3
- Home and life: 2
- Writing: 1
Reading goal for 2024: have a rotation of 1 nonfiction writing or related to a book project, 1 nonfiction memoir or biography, 1 nonfiction religious (which has crossover with work related, but not necessarily), and 1 fiction.