No Book Discussions This Week

I'm not leading any book discussions this week and that means two things around here:  1.  A little time to blog, and 2.  I get to read whatever I want this week.  We went to Anchorage over the weekend and I spent the whole drive home reading.  It was awesome!  So this is what I am reading:

The Book of Mormon 
As a ward we are reading the Book of Mormon together in 100 days.  I am happy to say that I am on schedule and I just finished day 49.  Yah! Half way there!  I have never read it this quickly before.  I am learning so much and my testimony is growing by leaps and bounds. It's awesome!

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The Prophet Joseph Smith said: “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.”

The Real Thomas Jefferson
I got this book a few months back.  I thought since I am doing Thomas Jefferson Education with my children I should know about Thomas Jefferson, right?  The book is great, and he really was an incrediable man.

"He studied not only the law, but also languages, physics, agiculture, mathematics, philosophy, chemistry, anatomy, zoology, botany, religion, politics, history, literature, rhetoric, and virtually every other subject imaginable--always recording quotations and observations in his personal notebooks." 
"But he is most remembered most for his profound influence on man's istitutions of self-government.  His thinking, his writing, and virtually his entire adult life were dedicated to the overthrow of tyranny and the protection of individual freedom." 

A Patriot's History of the United States

Got this in Anchorage when I went to Target.  (Yes, Target was awesome!  The anchorage area now has 3, when am I going to get one here?  Just wondering!)  I just started this and I am very excited to read it.  Glen Beck has recomended it over and over again on his show.  I'm excited to read about how great America is for once, because evern though we have our problems we are still the greatest country on this earth. 

"The authors of A Patriot's History think that an honest evaluation of the history of the United States must begin and end with the recognition that, compared to any other nation, America's past is a bright and shining light.  America was, and is, the city on the hill, the fountain of hope, the beacon of liberty."