This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 182.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,

Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast.

We are about to start transitioning into talking about all things reading, which many

of you guys know is one of my very favorite topics to talk about.

And so today I am kicking off kind of this mini round of discussions all about my top 10 favorite books from 2018.

So this was a really hard list to come up with.

But I've been brainstorming and figuring it out and I narrowed it down to my top 10.

Although if I talk too long about it, I will come up with 20 or 30 because I read a lot of good books

this year. And so I'm going to share my top 10 books. And then we have our 2019 reading challenge for

men and reading challenge for women coming out, I think next week. Jason and I need to finalize that.

But we do have our brand new reading challenge coming out. So make sure you stay tuned to the podcast

for that because it's going to be really good. So we're going to go ahead and jump right in.

And then in a little while, we're going to hear from the sponsor for today's episode,

vistaprint.com. If you didn't get your Christmas cards yet or photo gifts, then we're going to be

chatting about that. Okay, but we're going to jump in right

into this because we have a ton to talk about. So I have read as of right now, as of today,

I have read 84 books this year. And that is a ton. That is so many. This is the most I think

I've ever read in a year. I never

tracked it when I was younger. So maybe when I was a teenager, I used to read a ton. I may have read more

than that. I had a lot more time on my hands back then. But Jason and I for the last two years have

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