Readings Around the House

The Star Wars obsession continues. I kissed Tiny Dancer while she was sleeping last night and found no fewer than four Star Wars books in her bed with her. The current favorite around here is this:

She's really taking off on her own reading, so there is an endless flow of books going through her hands at the moment.

Little Bear is in love with these Charlie Brown books.  

For school, he's reading The Kitchen Knight and Roland Wright: Future Knight among others.

 

 

And Curly is reading The Song of Roland (Eleanor Clark, out of print), Adam of the Road, and The Illustrated Book of Myths. 

 

 I can't seem to settle on anything for myself at the moment. Anyone have any suggestions? I love to read and am not liking feeling lost!

Possibility

It's like walking into a candy store.

They inhale audibly, and their eyes become like saucers.

It's like Christmas morning. All of that possibility. All of that hope.

They take off down the aisles and start pulling out favorites. They add in some that look too enticing to be left alone. Our pile becomes a mountain.

I can hear cries of “Yes!” as they find something they have been hoping to see. I sit and smile, knowing that excitement. 

I, myself, am what the Atlantic Wire calls a bookophile.  http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/what-kind-book-reader-are-you-diagnostics-guide/56337/

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/what-kind-book-reader-are-you-diagnostics-guide/56337/

I can't help myself. The first thing I do when I get my hands on a book – old or new – is smell it. They all have a distinct smell. There's an old library book smell, a new book smell, a Bible smell, a textbook smell, a picture book smell... you get the idea.

I love the wrinkled pages of a book that lost a battle with a glass of water. I love the worn pages of a book that has clearly been read again and again. I love a book with crayon scribbles in it and a book with notes written in the margin.

I imagine those who have read the book before me. Did they read with lightning speed when everything started to come together in A Tale of Two Cities? Did they wonder what in the world Beth March died of (I believe it was lack of anything better to do – sorry)? Did they get angry with The Capitol when they threw the champions back in the arena?

There's just so much possibility in each book. I sit and smile, hearing my children dive into that possibility with so much enthusiasm.

What kind of reader are you?

What We're Reading...

Right now we are in the middle of several really good books. Our shelves are piled high with our latest library selections. I let Little Bear get his own library card today (which was a whole experience by itself), so now we can increase the insane number of books we have each time.

Curly is reading Tales of Ancient Egypt for a little summer school reading. 
 

He's also reading Harry Potter for the fourth time. Apparently, he is listening to one and reading another at the same time. My poor brain would just be confused.

He's listening to The Never Ending Story. And then he throws in some other random books as the mood strikes.

Little Bear is into Geronimo Stilton right now. In the spring, he loved My Weird School, but he read all of those and has moved on to Geronimo. He also has a pile of other books, but he keeps coming back to these.
 

And Tiny Dancer is just happy to listen to anything girly. For some reason, she loves The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan. I find it painful to read aloud, and I have been asked to do so no less than 75 times.
 

I'm also reading Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang to all three and The MysteriousBenedict Society to Curly. LOVE the Benedict Society!!