I love to see what other people are reading. I've gotten the best suggestions from here.

I'm reading:

Good Harbor--Anita Diamant
Pitching my Tent--Anita Diamant
When God Whispers Your Name--Max Lucado


What I'm going to be reading:
The list is HUGE. I am a book-a-holic

My goals for next month are:
The Highly Sensitive Child
Parenting from the Inside Out
The SHadow WOmen
The Remnant
Protecting the Gift
Create a Life that Tickles Your SOul
Confessions of a Happily Organized Family
About Peace
How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk
Living Simply with Kids
The Dance
The Invitation

I'm currently reading Tribulation Force by Tim Lahaye and partner. It's part of the Left Behind series. My goal is to read all of the books in the series. You know what I've heard is good? The People of the Earth series. That's next :)

i just finished A shot in the Dark and What Every parent should know about Childhood Immunizations

i'm cu rrently reading The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie omartian and will be reading The Power of a Praying Parent next.

after that i'm thinking buot reading Ann Rice Vampire series. I never did read that and i keep thinking I should re-read Interview with the Vampire and then the series.

Rereading "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

"A Friend of the Earth" by T.C. Boyle

"A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle" by Joan Borysenko

"Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall B. Rosenberg

still plugging away at the Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Series :D

edited for a typo

I'm not reading anything :( but I need to. So I'll be stalking this thread looking for inspiration.

Originally posted by Mrsmissy
Protecting the Gift

:thumbsup: This is an excellent important book that ALL parents should read. imho of course.

My bookgroup is reading "Monkey Dancing" and it is amazing, the story of a man who took his kids on a trip around the world to see the fading wonders and heal from their mother's leaving and their uncle's death... the author is SOMETHING Glick! I read it in September and was transfixed the entire time!!!

As for what I am reading right now, with the impending return of our little guy...

I Love You Rituals

Attaching in Adoption

Parenting the Hurt Child

Our Own (adopting the older child)

Well, that's all that's on the desk at the moment but there are more downstairs. :)

I'm finally starting to read again (from a long hiatus when I just didn't have the focus). I am reading Miseducation by David Elkind and here's my "to do" reading list:

-I wanna reread "Raising a Son" as I won one on Ebay.
-The Human Stain (the movie looks good, hope the book is better)
-The Underachieving School by John Holt
and... The Alchemist

I love to read. I miss when I was younger I would just spend the whole day in bed reading something.

LESLIE

I have been stuck in the Outlander series for about a month. I am in the last one (Firey Cross) right now.

Last month I was reading Terry Goodkind (the Sowrd of Truth series)... I like him... but he is SO brutal sometimes. Don loves him.

I finished Robart Jordan's Wheel of Time series in the summer.

I read the Jean Aeul's Clan of the Cave bear, and am waiting for the next one to get back to the library.

I reread all of the Lord of the Rings, and the Hobbit in Augest. I can't WAIT for Return of the King to come to the movies.... (I really hope they don't screw this one up like the last one.)

I read People of the Sea... ummmm... crap there is so much more and neither Don or I can remember.

I am in at least two books at all times. I read one and then go right into the other. I finished Drums Of Autum (Outlander series) this morning, and I am in that odd place of wanting to buy the next book but having Terry Goodkind sitting next to my bed too... lol... uggg...

love Val

Edit: Now I am reading The Red Tent...

I am reading "All Over Creation" by Ruth Ozeki. It is as good as her first novel, "My Year of Meats." THey are both very environmentally-conscious books, while being great stories about interesting women.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670030910/ref=pd_sxp_f/002-6621577-8447215?v=glance&s=books

I am also reading "How Good Parents Raise Great Kids." by Davidson. It is not strictly AP in its ideas, but a great book nonetheless.

Let's see...I just read

Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

right now I'm reading

The gate/s of sleep (i think) by Mercedes Lackey


next up...probably some Ursula K Leguin and more Mercedes Lackey (I'm in a mood)

I am not reading anything...I am stalking my bookstore, waiting for it to be November 4 and time for the Dark Tower V!! :D

I'm Re-reading the Harry Potters in prep for reading #5 for the first time. I'm a little over 1/2way through 4 right now. I'm also reading Salmon of Doubt (Douglas Adams) and need to pick Anne of Green Gables back up to just finish it, but it's rather an annoying book to me.

I was thinking of reading Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged again, but I've read them quite a few times and may do something else first like some more Jane Austen I read P&P for the first time early this year and really enjoyed it. I also have Tuck Everlasting waiting in the wings and also need to get back to Superimmunity for Kids.

I love Orson Scott Card's work! I haven't read Shadow Puppets though. Is that part of the Ender group?

Okay, I just got A House Called Awful End The Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh. They were selling it at my son's book fair. It looked interesting. The school librarian suggested Lemony Snickets books for those HP fans. Might have to start perusing those soon...

I've heard the Lemony Snickets are good. I thought they looked kinda depressing, but maybe I'll try one... :)

The Artemis Fowl books are good, but not for kids until they're quite a bit older.

Yea~ depressing with a twist of weird irony of good things happening is what I heard. I will check into Artemis Fowl.

I am reading Lorna Sass's cookbooks right now. Cooking from them as well as reading to garner the information. I am loving it. Plus I am reading Gabaldons latest too. Love her.

Love Val

just read and returned purple hibiscus, I don't remember who wrote it.
ok looked it up, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565123875/qid=1068091438//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/002-9070476-9287233?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

a book on simplicity to get me centered again on our goal as a family to live simply and with minimal needs.

I am also browsing a number of vegetarian and vegan cookbooks to scout recipes for hubby who wants to go strict vegan so want to get some he will like and the kids will like so I'm not cooking two seperate meals in addition to the meal I cook for my parents. He is not into meat substitutes and wants to stay away from soy because he is not sure that it is not gm'd.

I am always reading children's books, currently the Wind Boy which is a very sweet book the boys are loving it!