Maryam’s Book Pile
FAMILY/PARENTING BOOKS:
Playful Parenting (amazingly awesome book that has changed my life)
Hold On To Your Kids (totally powerful book that everyone should read, even if you don’t have kids)
The Creative Family by Amanda Blake Soule
Simplicity Parenting, by Kim John Payne (fantastic book about stress, simplifying, family life, and children)
Spiritual Midwifery, by Ina May Gaskin
FAVORITE READS:
Princess Ben, by Catherine Murdock
Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson
The Secret Life of Bees
Jan Karon’s Mitford Series
Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Series (Eragon, etc.)
L. M. Montgomery’s books especially The Blue Castle, the Emily books, and the Pat books
The Talking Earth, by Jean Craighead George
SPIRITUAL:
The Tao Te Ching
Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish, by Sue Bender (love this!)
PICTURE BOOKS:
McEligot’s Pool, by Dr. Suess
The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig
all these should be italicized, shouldn’t they? hrm…
