Ben and I used to read a lot, many yonks ago. But the matters of "reading" and "books" have been all child focused in this household for a few years now; beginning firstly with reading aloud to them A LOT and then helping them to become readers themselves. They can both read now of course, but we still read aloud to them. One is never too old to be read to (my younger sister happily read to me when we were both still in our highschool years...we scared ourselves silly with Edgar Allan Poe tales). Now don't get me
wrong, Ben and I LOVE children's literature. You'd be hard pressed to find a
family who adore Roald Dahl as much as we do. And we try to read all the classics to Harry and Till. But I'm pleased to say, the grown-ups in this abode are rediscovering
the joy of books. It helps that we don't have TV in our house I suppose
(oh we watch the occasional DVD - so we aren't completely devoid of
screen time).
It has been a loooong time since I let you look in our library bag. And so with no further ado...
Ben (always a Dick Francis fan) just finished...
Currently he has his nose in...
Over the weekend I read...
And now I can't put this one down...
I recently received this FABULOUS cookbook in the mail....
I've been cooking up a storm...and maybe, just maybe...
I'm beginning to enjoy my time in the kitchen just a wee bit more!
On Saturday Harry read all THREE of these in one hit...
Now I'm trying to track down the remaining titles in this series.
And lastly, our small girl (who can read all by herself now!), is enjoying this audio book at bedtime...
So what are you reading? I'm looking for recommendations!
And now I'm hopping in to bed to read.
Goodnight xxx
And now I'm hopping in to bed to read.
Goodnight xxx
3 comments:
I know you're going to hate me BUT Harriet just read the Lemony Snickets too - because I found TEN of them at the op shop. *woot* If you like I can keep me eyes out for more, they're a common occurence in opshop land. :)
I just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve (both by Alfie Kohn) and Ijust bought a Geraldine Brooks book at the op shop and one by Don Watson as well. Will have to look into those, but I feel ike re-reading some classics, so I'm going to start in on The Masterpiece by Emile Zola (one of my faves).
I just blogged about our book cull on the weekend. Massive cull!
Saw that BIG book cull on your blog! What an effort Cass!
Thanks for the book watch offer....but I'm hoping our local library will have the next books in the series - sadly our school library doesn't!!!!!
Sounds like you are a bookworm....will try and track down some of your suggestions. Ta.
How did you enjoy the curious incident of the dog? I loved it but cried through so much of it when I could see where my life with an aspergers teen is going to be heading. I bought extra copies and lend it out to others who want to read it as a way to spread the understanding.
I need to get the naughtiest girl book from the library as I have the sequel to read to my own cheekiest girl at school.
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