2015 Reading Tally: 22 books/plays

It was a down year when it came to reading. Lots of school related reading (and grading of papers/essay) cut down on my time, as did my sleeping woes (seems I may have sleep apnea, which left me constantly tired and falling asleep at inopportune times).

A number of the books on the list were ones I read for school. My rule for counting them is that I have not taught/read them in a while. So, for example, I did reread The Merchant of Venice, The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, and Antigone again, but as I read them last year I did not count them. On the other hand, I reread Othello. Macbeth, and Jane Eyre, all of which I had not read in a while, so I counted them.

Here's the list:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

The Woman Who Was Chesterton by Nancy Carpentier Brown

The Porter of St. Bonaventure's by James Patrick Derum

What's the Weather Inside? (children's poetry) by Karma Wilson

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Father Solanus: The Story of Solanus Casey, O.F.M. Cap. by Catherine M. Odell

Nothing Is Impossible With God by John Michael Talbot

I Am Malala

Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking by Alan Katz

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku by Paul B. Janeczko and J. Patrick Lewis

Outside the Box (children's poetry) by Karma Wilson

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pure Drivel by Steve Martin

All Roads by Dale Ahlquist

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

100 Essays I Don't Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy by Mike Huckabee

Urodivoi: Holy Fools by Catherine Doherty

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat

It's primarily a mix of school-related, religious, and children's poetry. Chesterton sneaks in twice. There are two books about Fr. Solanus Casey, my Franciscan patron. Douthat's book was thought provoking.

There were some books I was working on, but did not finish yet - a book about being a hermit and Dante's Divine Comedy standing out among those works.  Currently reading a collection of short essays as well. What to add to the 2016 list ... hmmm.

Pax et bonum