Just finished The Book Thief. Note that this is not TLC-friendly, however good it was. The main sector of problematic content are many uses of Jesus' name as an exclamation, a couple handfuls of other swears, and a lot of crude name-calling.
I have to hand it to the author: he write almost poetically. He has a curious way of phrasing things and makes the oddest metaphors, but it speaks ideas with its own vividness. Which is what I'm largely blaming for having made me cry at the end.
Now to figure out what to read next....
Read Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which, while fun enough, is not TLC-friendly due to the inclusion of two adult scenes. I think the main thing I appreciated about it was that everything tied together somehow. No loose ends whatsoever that I noticed!
Anyway. Now I'm reading Boxen, which I acquired in Oxford and only read two short selections of at The Eagle and Child. 🙂
Boxen is now done (wow, CS Lewis and his brother had quite the vocabulary and scary idea of politics at quite a young age!). Moving on to The Most Reluctant Convert a biography of CS Lews.
JUST TODAY finished book 7 of the Michael Vey series!
AHHH
AMAZING IT WAS
The Most Reluctant Convert is recommended by yours truly if you ever want to have a timeline of Lewis' spiritual journey (and have glimpses of the ideas and people that show up later in his writings).
Moving on to a book about the friendship between Lewis and Tolkien. 🙂
Going through Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories again and appreciating them more than ever. 
Finally finished JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis: The Story of a Friendship (not all that tick, but it took longer than expected to get through). Moving on to Pride and Prejudice tomorrow.
Finished Pride and Prejudice. I'm amazed at how faithful the A&E adaptation is (and I find agreeable the changes that they did make).
Moving on to Sense and Sensibility.
Completed Sense and Sensibility and have decided I have found another film adaptation of a book I prefer over the book. Sense and Sensibility is drier than Pride and Prejudice and I have the distinct impression that most of the characters are more like caricatures: most things are so exaggerated that I can hardly believe it to be anything else.
Anyway. Moving on to Persuasion tomorrow.
I've been listening to The Gospel of John, read by Vic Mignogna (the voice actor for Edward Elric in FMA). It's officially online for free. He also did a piano soundtrack in to the narration.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well." - John 14:6-7a
Finished Persuasion (thus far, I think it's my favourite Jane Austen book!). On to Mansfield Park.
Going through James Herriot's books because my sister gave me them for Christmas. They're quite good, aside from some British strong language. I like them because they're all about animals.
Just finished Mansfield Park. The last few chapters had me quite suddenly sucked in in a way that the rest of the book hadn't! As for Edmund Bertram, I don't think I've loved such a flawed character this much since Woody from Toy Story. (To be clear, Fitzwilliam Darcy is more flawed and still dear to me, but he had to improve on me; Edmund Bertram from the start had my empathy throughout.)
Emma is destined to be my next Jane Austen reading, but I didn't act on my notification from the library, so I have to wait till tomorrow evening to pick it up.
In the meantime, I'll start on... *peruses shelf* Wolf Willow. A prof from my college gave it to me with a particular desire to share the experience with me, and yet I've already read the other books he gave me after the presentation of this one.
Thinking of starting Artemis Fowl? anyone got reveiws?
Congrats on making it through Mansfield Park, Ariel! It's the only Austen book that I've yet to manage to make it through, I just can't make myself care. 😛 However I did like the recent adaptation of it and it being about a 2-3 hour experience as opposed to a novel let me engage in it enough to know the storyline. Edmund Bertram is flawed, but he gets away with it by being a good person. He might not speak up nearly as much as he should (Which is what made it one of the least engaging of the books for me...) but he is at heart a good person.
Emma is my favorite of Austen's novels. I'm not sure if you'll agree Ariel given how deeply flawed Emma is compared to the other leads. But I love Emma because I see myself in Emma, warts and all.
(Have you seen the Lizzy Bennett Diaries? They aren't for the youngest of viewers, but it's a great modern retelling of P&P through a YouTube vlog. Shoot me a PM if you want the links. 100% legal on the YouTubes)
Artimis Fowl! I've read them all, some more than once. It's a really fun series, mostly because I find Eoin Colfer's writing style to be so much fun. His ideas are clever, his characters are engaging and his stories are fantastical. Highly recommend. It's a Sci Fi series with fairies. Technologically advanced fairies. It's like nothing I've ever read before.
