Friday, April 15, 2011

Show Us Your Life - My Bookshelf!

Today's Show Us Your Life Friday at Kelly's Korner  is about sharing what we're reading.I am honestly really trying my best to read more.  I used to read all the time when I was little.  Basically, I didn't stop.  I remember an incident in the third grade where my teacher realized that instead of reading the story in my language arts book I was reading a Baby Sitters Club book I had tucked inside of it.  That was fun.  I basically owned every Baby Sitters Club and Sweet Valley twins book when I was little, and then one year I had an unsupervised Study Hall in the library in middle school.  I became even more obsessed with books, and it was there that I discovered my all time favorite novel - Gone With the Wind.  I read it at least once a year.  Margaret Mitchell's writing is just amazing and I love it!  Right now my book list is just a little different:

Earlier this year I was on a reading kick.  I was certain that I was going to be watching less TV with Simon gone from American Idol.  Then I decided I don't hate the judges as much as I was anticipating and I started watching The Biggest Loser for the first time. But before all that I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and I loved it.  I can't wait for the movie to come out next weekend!
Water for Elephants (movie tie-in, mass market)

I actually have The Help sitting on my nightstand, but I haven't opened it yet!
The Help

I have three "parenting" books that I ordered too (I had a Groupon for Amazon and a Living Social deal for Barnes &Noble).  Also on my agenda (and bookshelf) are Cinderella Ate My Daughter (I'm not trying to raise a princess in a world that keeps telling little girls that they are princesses), Sleepless in America (hey, my 4 year old doesn't sleep as much as he needs to), and
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl CultureSleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep?The Five Love Languages of Children

Fortunately all my shows end soon so I'll have a little more free time, and unfortunately, Brian is about to get even busier at work so I'll have no one to hang out with after the kids go to bed.  I know that the best example my kids have of what they should be doing (reading) is me, so I also want to make an effort to not just read to them (which we all love), but tto read in front of them as well!

2 comments:

  1. Just saw that we had similar books posted on Kelly's blog. I'll have to read Five Love Languages of Children. I read the adult version years ago and learned a lot.

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  2. I read while I watch TV and lately I have been doing a lot of reading :)

    I am with you on thinking I wouldn't like American Idol as much but I love it just as much! Always been a huge fan of biggest looser!

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