My List of Accomplished Reads for 2015
*No Longer a Slum-dog: Bringing Hope to Children in Crisis by KP Yohannan
*Little Princes by Conor Grennan
*The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
*My Life in France by Julia Child
*Who Are These Children and Why Are They Calling Me Mom? by Faith Bogdan
*The Serpent’s Tale by Ariana Franklin
*Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
*Life of Pi by Yann Martel
*Divergent by Veronica Roth
*The Fringe Hours by Jessica N. Turner
*Submerged by Dani Pettrey
*Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
*The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg
*Soul Friends by Leslie Parrott
*Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
*The Second Mrs Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
*Own Your Life by Sally Clarkson
*Longing for Paris by Sarah Mae Hoover
*For the Love by Jen Hatmaker
*Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
*The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
*The Unveiled Wife by Jennifer Smith
*Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine
*His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F Harley, Jr.
*Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini

Last year I remember seeing a lot of posts about an empty shelf change, but I never read any of them. You gotta be kidding me, I thought, how am I supposed to empty a shelf in my house?! I figured it out: You move out, that’s how. I boxed up all my books this summer, so that we could move furniture to do the dining room floors.

They didn’t all make it back on the shelves, some of them even ended up on the front porch in a box for the library and Salvation Army {if you want to stop by and look through them, by all means…}. Obviously the empty shelf concept didn’t work last year, and probably won’t after I put away all the books I got for Christmas…Matt got me just a few {His response: What? Used books are cheap}, but for right now I have an empty shelf {and a pile on the table}!

Here’s what I do, for my non-empty shelf dilemma…

 I put all of the books I want to read on ONE shelf.

That’s it, earth shattering I know. They’re all in one spot, they’re not getting lost, I can see what I have to read and what I’ve finished. It’s brilliant, if I say so myself. It also helps me to avoid the whole “What do I read next?” I just go to my shelf and grab the next one. It’s awesome! So, yea, that empty shelf right there is going to be getting real full…real fast. Here’s the pile sitting on my table waiting to go fit right in there. I think I might need a bigger shelf.

Last year I managed to read around 30 books; which wasn’t too shabby {I share all the books I’ve read HERE}. I did allow myself some unexpected, and much needed, fiction reading time. Before kids the majority of my reading was fiction, now most of it is non-fiction/parenting/motherhood books. If you want to keep tabs on what I’m reading this year, you can find them all listed HERE.

What books would you add to my reading list?