I love how I always
learn something while reading, and I love how books are seldom about one topic.
We tell kids that reading is so important, that reading is knowledge, and that
knowledge is power. But do we always believe it? So I sat down with my list of 2013 reads and listed the subjects discussed in them.
Here is a list of the
topics I explored through my reading this year.
9/11, the 1960s, adventure, Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, African-American
poetry, Alabama, America’s independence from Britain, American ambassadors, Amish,
animals, Arizona, attachment parenting, autism, being an astronaut’s wife, Benjamin
Franklin, Berlin, the Bible, books, Boston, burns, the Bush administration, California,
Catholic families, Catholicism, cats, charity, chefs, chess, child abuse, child
trafficking, childhood & coming-of-age, China, Chinese pictographs, choral
singing, Christianity, collecting, colonial life, Colorado, Condoleezza Rice, Connecticut, cooking, cooking
apprenticeships, cooking for a large family, cooking Thanksgiving, Coonhound, Czechoslovakia,
dancing, death, disabilities, divorce, dogs, downsizing, eating with family, England,
estates, Ethiopia, evangelicals, faith, families, farming, fathers parenting
daughters, favorite books, fiction, Florida, food poetry, France, French
cooking, French food, French parenting, Gandhi, gender re-assignment, Germany, Great
Britain, Greyhounds, grief, Hawaii, healthy eating, hiking, Hispanic-American, history
of American Chinese food, Holocaust, home, home decorating, homeschooling, Hong
Kong, humor, Illinois, Indian independence from the Crown, Indiana, inheritance, interstates, Iowa, Iran, Iraq
war, Islam, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Italy, Jews, judges, Julia
Child, the Kennedy assassination, the Kennedys, large families, Laura Ingalls
Wilder, lawyers, Le Cordon Bleu, living abroad, love & romance, machinery, Maine,
manor houses, mansions, Marie Osmond, marriage, Massachusetts, memoir, mental retardation, Michigan,
Middle East, millionaires, Missouri, Montana, Mormons, Mother Teresa, mother/son
relationship, murder mystery, Nazis, Nepal, New Jersey, New York, nonfiction, Norway,
Obama administration, Ohio, Oklahoma, Olive Osmond, Oregon, Pacific Coast Trail, palaces, parenting, Paris,
Paul Harvey, Pearl Harbor, perfume, photography, pioneer life, poetry, poetry about dogs, poetry
anthologies, political science, politics, polygamy, Prague, prairies, prayer, presidents,
Prince Charles, Princess Diana, processed foods, projects, Puerto Rico, Queen
Elizabeth II, radio, raising a large family, reading, restaurant kitchens, Revolutionary
War, Ronald Reagan, the Royal Family, Russia (USSR), Secretaries of State, self-help,
service animals, South Dakota, space race, Supreme Court justice, Sweden, terrorism,
Tiffany’s, toddlers, traveling through 50 states, Tulsa, the United Kingdom, the United
States of America, Utah, Vietnamese-American, Washington, Washington, D.C., wealth,
weightlifting, Winnie-the-Pooh, Winston Churchill, Wisconsin, WMD, WWII, Yugoslavia.
So, what did you
learn about this year?
