Book Bliss

6/19/08

M is now one of those children that will ask to hear a longer book or two (more like 4 or 5) at bedtime.  Without needing the same page read over and over or wanting to skip pages or back up or any of that other childish stuff (no, I’m not a mean Momma… I just like to read too much to mess with that).

So she’s actually FUN to read with now!!  She still picks the one-liner board books to flp through and enjoy (as long as we’re not flipping backwards).  But the longer ones are holding her attention now, too.  Oh so fun!  I do love emerging readers (as long as they’re not flipping through or backwards). 

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I love reading. Not so much to the children (I know, isn’t that odd?), but I do enjoy reading out loud. I think the thing that bugs me about reading to the children is that I’m either A: reading for their school stuff, which makes it an obligation and takes some of the fun out or B: reading to a little one who often wants the same book or page read over and over again or doesn’t have the patience to go from page 1 to page 5 in sequential order. But when it’s a book for fun, or a childhood classic with dialects or something like that that makes the spoken word interesting, I’m all there. By the way, I refuse to read the same book over and over again even to my own children. They learn to love reading anyway!

I tend to like fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, youth section stuff, fantasy. You can check out what I’ve read for myself or with the children by clicking on the Library Thing link. If you don’t want to comment there, you are welcome to engage me in literary debate (haha) here, in my comments section. Cause, as everybody knows, the next best thing to reading is talking about reading!

OK… so I’m trying to add some recent books I’ve read and the site tells me I have to turn on cookies.  Well, I thought I did, but it keeps telling me to try again.  ARGH!!  So, until my brain wants to figure this out without exploding… here’s some of my recent reads:

When The Mississippi Ran Backwards by Jay Feldman (awesome history/intrigue kind of book concerning Kentucky and the whole nation at the beginning of the 1800’s)

Magic Or madness trilogy by Justine Larbalestier (over all, pretty good… but as it progresses it includes elements of teenage sexuality that I think are not needed and kind of glosses over a teenage pregnancy).

The faerie Path series by Frewin Jones (girl caught between two worlds… looking forward to the next book in the series).

Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce ( kind of odd, different, fun).

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