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We've got several saint books (compilations, and individual books) and I've found that we don't read them enough throughout the year. So I'm putting together a spreadsheet/index that can be sorted by feast day, year of death, book title, and saint name. I know Sonya Romens has a list keyed to Saints for Young Readers, and I also have Alicia Van Hecke's list. I vaguely remember someone saying that she's putting such a list together or has already finished it, but I can't find the thread.... I hope I wasn't imagining it.  Any ideas?
If there already is one then I can just add our stuff to it and make it available here as well.
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Those lists were mentioned in this thread and I think Aussieannie had compiled a list for the saints books she had.
It's a great idea...you're such a good organizer. I have loads and loads of saints books, but forget what I have and what's good to pull out when.
What would be great to include in the spreadsheet if I ever get around to it:
1) Short biography
2) Age appropriate short biographies (read aloud, young reader)
3) Larger works for elementary age
4) Older reading/adult level books
5) Illustrations of saints
6) Perhaps combined with above, but art masterpieces of the saints (books and websites)
7) Prayers and Devotions
8) Crafts
9) Recipes
See why I never get organized? My goals are too high!
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I made this one
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Oh, I forgot about your FABULOUS list!
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Thanks so much Jenn! I should have known it was Anne!
Heh-heh, I can relate about goals being too high. I want your list too! That's why I limited my columns to 4 for this project. Maybe I can add a new column every year.
You know what's big on my wishlist? That the liturgical year entries at CatholicCulture.org could include suggestions for a book or two to read. I know you no longer work there, but do you still have contacts there, and if you do, do you think they can be persuaded to do that? I'd be happy to volunteer some help if this is something they'd consider doing.
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Oh wow, I missed your post, Martha! Thank you so much!
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stefoodie wrote:
| You know what's big on my wishlist? That the liturgical year entries at CatholicCulture.org could include suggestions for a book or two to read. I know you no longer work there, but do you still have contacts there, and if you do, do you think they can be persuaded to do that? I'd be happy to volunteer some help if this is something they'd consider doing. |
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That was one of my plans, also. For a while my aunt was putting some Amazon links to books. I'll pass the idea along.
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Thanks Jenn for my links.
Stef, I have since written in length about this list on my blog in this post, Living With and Loving the Saints Liturgically
When you go to this link look to the right hand side bar as well and up the top you will see "Calendar List for all my Saints Books" - there is the complete file - 11 pages long or so. Save it to your own computer if you have many of the books I have. It will help cut down on some of your work...you can adjust and play around with my list if it helps in compiling yours - basically you should be able to add and subtract from my list.
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JennGM wrote:
What would be great to include in the spreadsheet if I ever get around to it:
1) Short biography
2) Age appropriate short biographies (read aloud, young reader)
3) Larger works for elementary age
4) Older reading/adult level books
5) Illustrations of saints
6) Perhaps combined with above, but art masterpieces of the saints (books and websites)
7) Prayers and Devotions
8) Crafts
9) Recipes
See why I never get organized? My goals are too high!
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When I designed the saint sheets for each month for the liturigical calendar I had Stef volunteer to do a few months and it would have been more for her to do if I hadn't done so many at that point, but it worked well having someone work with me.
With your idea Jenn something similar could be done, with a core group of very interested girls who would like to see this list done. Each girl can be given a category each to work on, (the one that interests them the most or they have the most info on) when they have added every possible book/link they can think of, the list can be shown to the other girls where they add what might not have been thought of to date until you have a completed list for each category.
Then the complete document can be given to those interested and they can do final 'tweaking' for their own personal use (subtracting the books they are not interested in or will never buy and adding the extra books/links that are not listed but they would want on the document.)
I've rambled, sorry but this is just an idea...
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That's an awesome idea, Annie! Would love to do this with anyone who's interested! And  I'm embarrassed that I hadn't seen it on your blog. I really should spend more time visiting yours more often. Thank you so much for sharing!
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I'm kinda jumping the gun here, as I don't know if anyone is interested, but one helpful tool here would be Google Spreadsheets -- a group of people can edit the same spreadsheet, in real time even if need be.
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Topic: Has anyone made a Saints spreadsheet?
