| Check out the site below if you want some quick summaries of the classics Book - A - Minute - Classics |
| Here are the fiction books Ryan has read this year (click on the links to see his favorite quotes from the books). Scroll down the page to see non-fiction books. To see titles and quotes from books he has read from 2001-2006, click here. |
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| To see a list of books Ryan has read in the last few years click here |
| "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain |
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| Our Favorite Books |
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| Leslie and I are both big readers, although I tend to keep track of what I read a little more than Leslie (as you can see below). Have book recommendations for us? Read any of the those on the list below? We love talking about books so let us know what you read as well. |
| The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Witness by Karen Hesse The Landry News by Andrew Clements The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Holes by Louis Sachar Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Bunnicula by James Howe |
| Leslie's Favorite Books |
| Ryan's Recent Reads |
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| Main page Ryan's Research Leslie's Teaching Our Faith Hobbies Forwards Lockwood Our Pictures Our Family Our Friends Our travels Our Pets Our house Columbus |
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| My Favorite Chapter Books |
| My Favorite Teacher Resource Books |
| Nobody Left to Hate by Elliot Aronson Queen Bees and Wanna Bees by Rosalind Wiseman |
| My Favorite Picture Books |
| Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert
Mr. Happy and Little Miss Sunshine by Roger Hargreaves The Mystery of Harris Burdock by Chris Van Allsburg Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague Verdi by Janell Cannon Tough Cookie by David Wisniewski |
| The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman Couplehood by Paul Reiser The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom |
| Other Favorite Books |
| Leslie's Recent Reads |
| Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza End of the Spear - Steve Saint Things Not Seen - Andrew Clements The River - Gary Paulsen The Tent - Gary Paulsen Captain Grey - Avi Among the Hidden - Margaret Haddix Among the Impostors - Margaret Haddix Among the Barons - Margaret Haddix True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi |
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| Ryan doesn't exactly have favorite books, but here are a few of his favorite authors: Mark Twain Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allen Poe Arthur Conan Doyle C.S. Lewis Alexandre Dumas Gary Chapman Jonathan Swift Friedrich Nietzsche Jules Verne |
| "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." - Edmund Burke |
| 2007 The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl What is the What - Dave Eggers Brian's Winter - Gary Paulsen Horrible Harry in Room 2b - Suzy Kline A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling Orbit - John Nance Hatchet - Gary Paulsen Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Secret History of Tom Trueheart - Ian Beck Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Alida's Song - Gary Paulsen Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut |
| 2007 Cool It - Bjorn Lomborg Opening Skinner's Box - Lauren Slater The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki Opening Up - James Pennebaker Waking the Dead - John Eldredge Babyproofing Your Marriage - Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O'Neal & Julia Stone Rethinking Thin - Gina Kolata Improving Your Storytelling - Doug Lipman Stories to Solve - George Shannon Starlight and Time - Russell Humphreys Don't Shoot the Dog! - Karen Pryor The Big Moo - Seth Godin How Children Raise Parents - Dan Allender The Now Habit - Neil Fiore The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things - Cy Tymony Horseradish - Lemony Snicket Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman Twinkie, Deconstructed - Steve Ettlinger The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel The Lull-a-baby Sleep Plan - Cathryn Tobin Evolution, The Challenge of the Fossil Record - Duane Gish Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel Epic & You Have What It Takes - John Eldredge Why We Want You to Be Rich - Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki How We Know What Isn't So - Thomas Gilovich Adventures in Darkness - Tom Sullivan The Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey White Bears & Other Unwanted Thoughts - Daniel Wegner Finding Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Your Own Worst Enemy - Steven Berglas & Roy Baumeister Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich without cutting up your credit cards - Robert T. Kiyosaki The J Curve - Ian Bremmer Blink - Malcolm Gladwell The Wal-mart Effect - Charles Fishman Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert The Happiest Baby on the Block - Harvey Karp |
| Look at the site below for an online library you can use to store your book collection. - www.Librarything.com - my collection is under the username "ryanbrunner" |
| Here are the latest non-fiction books. |
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| These books are just for 2007, if you want to see 2001-2006 click the book below ... |
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