Enough Mommy guilt. We are reading now. Keith and I have delved in book club favorites: "Water for Elephants", "Eat, Pray, Love", "Into the Wild", "Talk Before Sleep", "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara", "Tepper isn't going Out", and others.
We've some self imrovement and HELP books: "Talking to your Tween", "The Artist's Way", "Raising a Thinking Preteen", "Positive Discipline" (Whenever we get on Jessica's case, she scowls,"is that what those books tell you? Well they're WRONG!!")
And let me tell you --- it is working -- the kids are READING. All the time. We have to ask them to stop. "Put your book away, it's past bedtime", "Stop reading and come eat", "Only one more workbook, then we will need to go outside and play". Don't get me wrong == they still want their legos, TV, computer games, balls, etc., but it's good to see their noses in books.
And fun for us too!
What good books have you read lately that you'd reccomend for Keith and I, and why????
Jessica reading in the hammock
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Hey! Still loving the blog. Books I can recommend and why...
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. It's quirky and British (is that redundant?) The main character has just retired and he finds a spot on his hip (a spot of bother) and without telling anyone decides that he has cancer and will die soon. Sounds morbid but it is hilarious - like laugh out loud when you are reading.
On Chesil Beach by McEwan - short and beautifully written about a honeymoon night with two virgins. He also wrote Atonement which I haven't read or seen the movie but I understand is fantatstic (book).
Bridge of Sighs - Russo. I'm reading it now and he writes so well I reread whole pages sometimes and just sit in awe of anyone with that command of English!
The Known World - Edward P. Jones. An epic Southern US story set in pre-Civil War times. It's like Gone with the Wind but about African Americans who owned slaves. It's an epic.
Those are the last three I read and really liked.
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