2025 Reading List

January to May, with the 2nd grade class

Capyboppy, by Peet 

The Minstel in the Tower, by Skurzynski 

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, by Dalgliesh 

The Big Father and His Little Boy, by Schuermann 

The Moffats, by Estes 

Mrs Piggle-Wiggle, by MacDonald

Life of Fred (Apples), by Stanley Schmidt

February 

Eleven Numbers: A Short Story, by Child 

JRR Tolkien: A Life Inspired, by North 

Martin Luther on Mental Health, by Saunders 

March 

Orthodoxy, by Chesterton 

The Problem of Suffering, by Greg Schulz 

Take Courage, by Matt Harrison 

April 

The Best Yes, by TerKeurst 

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, by TerKeurst 

Forgiving What You Can't Forget, by TerKeurst 

May 

Good Boundaries and Goodbyes, by TerKeurst 

June 

I Want to Trust You, But I Don't, by TerKeurst 

Growing Old with B.C., by Hart 

Irregular People, by Landorf

Old Testament Canticles, by Andrew Gerike

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Richardson

The Ardent Swarm, by Manai

July

Alexander the Great, by Gunther (Landmark book)

Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo, by Winmar (Landmark book)

Red Dog, by Wallace

Above All Things: The Tale of the King, by Rivers

August

Kids in the Divine Service, by Thoma

October

Faith Formation in Families, by the LCMS Children in Worship Initiative

November

Captain Cook Explores the South Seas, by Sperry (Landmark book)

June to December

Without the Shedding of Blood, by Scaer

Started but ditched pretty quickly

There's Something About Mira, by Dev

The Lending Library, by Fogelson

Movie: Green and Gold

 We had heard about the movie "Green and Gold," it sounded interesting, and we finally watched it.

On the plus side, this is the most Wisconsin thing I've ever seen.  I was initially delighted with the whole thing.  Culver's.  Cows.  Barns.  Near the shore of Lake Michigan.  Rural life.  Small towns.  Packers mania.  Target practice with guns.  Deer, a bear, migrating geese, and other wildlife.  Charlie Behrens on the radio.  Tractors.  The value of family farms versus industrial farming.  The crazy squiggly road up in Door County.

But the movie began frustrating us with the quality of the audio.  Of the two main characters, one was pretty easy to understand.  But the other had a "fuzzy" voice, very hard to catch her words.  And there was no captioning available.  We missed a lot of dialogue, as only a few of the characters had clear voices whose words we could understand.  And the visuals were dark enough that there was no chance of lip-reading to pick up words we missed.

There was also the ubiquitous problem of the pastor and the congregation (neither of which was tremendously integral to the story) having terrible theology and not knowing what the church is for.  But that part is no surprise.  

The movie wasn't a complete waste of time.  But boy, I'm glad we opted to watch it with commercials for free instead of renting the show.

My conclusion at the end of the evening: I think I'm no longer an Illinois girl.  I really have become a Wisconsinite.