One year ago, I thought I would blog my reading. I love to read and read, literally, 100's of books. I recently counted my home library (Amanda needed help learning how to average, and books on shelves are a great minipulative for that) and I have approximately 2200 books here at home with more being added frequently. Amazingly enough, I have read most of them. Yes, that includes every children's picture book we own but that is still an awesome number of books.
After sitting on the idea, scared to put my thoughts out there for everyone to see, I am taking the leap. I am going to review the books I read. Not all of them, but the ones I think are worth writing a bit about. So, I hope you enjoy this. I love sharing what I've read. I love it when people read what I've read because then we can discuss it. I love recommending books that have become our family's favorites to others who will enjoy them. That is the beauty of books. They have unlimited sharing capability. That makes them precious to me.
Someone recently said, "Not all truth has the same value." Not all books have the same value either. But, I am sure grateful that there are a lot of books with value.
In our home in a typical day, I have a book or two that I am reading to myself usually late at night or early in the morning or when I can slip away for a relaxing bath and a good book. Right now I am in the middle of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World" by Laura J. Snyder, "Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather, and "The Second Treatise of Government" by John Locke. I read to my children who are too young to read to themselves before falling asleep when I tuck them into bed each night. Right now, that means that I am reading a book with Benjamin ("Babe the Gallant Pig" by Dick King-Smith) and another with Bethany ("Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy Stories" by Johnny Gruelle) each night. I also usually have a younger children's book that I spend time reading out loud each day (now it's "The Girls Get Even" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor), and an older children book as well. ("Mrs. Robert E. Lee" by John Perry is our current selection.)
I hope everyone will find something like here on my blog. We read a wide variety of things, so our interests are varied. Hopefully you will find something that will inspire you to be ....... Book Attacked!
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