Got any recommendations? I love a good book, but Im not one for fiction. I like the real stuff. Since my degree is in history, I still tend to read histories, old habit are hard to break I guess.
On my current list of books in progress,
No cry sleep solution, I really need to get busy with this one!
The Price of Motherhood, I really love this one, a total eye opener and a lot of historical data that appeals to me. I'll give a full review when I finish.
Mists of Avalon
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
somthing about a Shiny Sink (by flylady)
The Mother Trip
No Cry Sleep Solution
What is waiting for me to read:
Punished by Rewards
Unplug the Christmas Machine
The new book in the Left Behind series (due out 7/2/02)
The Family Virtues Guide
THe Prophet
Lady of avalon
The Forest House
The Road to Avalon
Siblings without Rivalry
Gueniviere
The Art of Family
Being a Great Mom, Raising Great Kids
Riainsg your SPirited Child
Montessori Play and Learn
Hidden Messages
SEtting Limits
Nonviolent Communication
How to Behave so your Children will too
The Price of MOtherhood
Return to Love
Everyday Blessings
The Successful Child
Harry Potter 3
The Dance
The Heart of a Family
How to Talk so your Children will listen and Listen to they will talk
need i go on??
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The Encyclopedia of Medicinal plants
The Complete Guide to Healing Foods
All that Remains (Patricia Cornwell)
Quilting for Dummies
The Chronicles of Narnia series
and a book on homeschooling that is as dry as burnt toast.
I would love to get into a really meaty book but just haven't found one lately. I love HORROR...the scarier the better. If I have to leave the light on its a good one. Don't run across them too often tho.
I think this is going to be a cool forum. Thanks Amity!
If you like the Mists of Avalon (I loved it) then I bet you would like Mary Stewart's books. The Hollow Hills, The Crystal Cave, The Last Enchantment. The stories pretty much follow Merlin. It's been a long time since I've read them but they were really good.
I'm reading A Prayer For OWen Meaney by John Irving--one of my absolute favorite authors. I have read almost all of his books except this one, and since I recently named my third son Owen I thought it would be a fun read. I love it--but I have not had much reading time lately. I've also been re-reading Super Baby Food to get ready for Owen's inevitable solid food stage!
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Originally posted by throwbackmama I'm reading A Prayer For OWen Meaney by John Irving--one of my absolute favorite authors. I have read almost all of his books except this one, and since I recently named my third son Owen I thought it would be a fun read. I love it--but I have not had much reading time lately. I've also been re-reading Super Baby Food to get ready for Owen's inevitable solid food stage!
I love John Irving too! I read all his books when I lived in Maine, fantastic writer, and Prayer for Owen Meaney will not dissapoint you
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Books I loved
I loved No-Cry Sleep Solution. I can sleep with my baby and have her slip through the night. I have not implemented it yet as our lives have been too chaotic with starting a new school year (hsing).
I loved The Red Tent, The Secret Garden, anything by Louis LAmour (historical fiction, very accurate), anything by John Grisham, oh I could go on and on and do not have time.
Non-fiction parenting -
Anything by Dr. Sears, Nancy Samalin or Barbara Coloroso.
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Right now I'm reading Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher. It's WONDERFUL. OMGosh, I see myself as a pre-teen in her book. Anyone with daughters NEEDS to read this book. Just finished the TIghtwad Gazette, it was good, but has lots of ideas that are way too off the wall for me. Like the guy whose pull chain broke off his ceiling light. Instead of going and buying a new ($1-$2) pullchain, he puts a freaking styrofoam cup on the end of a broom handle to screw the lightbulb on and off. Please.
I want some new books but don't want to spend the money. I'm such a book snob, I MUST own them, not just borrow from the library. Need to work on that, lol.
I'm also a big John Irving fan, and I just finished The Fourth Hand. I liked it, because I like him, but I did get this feeling that he was writing "a John Irving novel." It was kind of self-conscious.
I just got Stephen Carter's Emperor of Ocean Park for my birthday, and I'm saving that and Seabiscuit for my vacation in a couple of weeks. I'm also starting Super Baby Food, since we've reached the solids stage.
I have lots of fiction to reccomend but you said you liked non fiction. I'm reading a memoir right now called The Black Veil, so far so good.
How about Angela's Ashes? super! even if it was depressing.
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I am reading "The Shaker Experience in America" by Stephen J Stein. It is written in a very dry, scolarly style (the author is a religion and history prof. at Indiana U.). But, it is an exhaustive history of the Shaker religion. I find the whole Shaker movement fascinating. I think when I finally finish this book I'll probably know everything I ever wanted to know about the Shakers (maybe more)! Then I can move onto something else. LOL...
If you are interested in books that cover mothering from a historical perspective, I enjoyed "The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Myth of the Good Mother"
by Shari L. Thurer when I read it years ago.
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like missy, i have a tall stack waiting for me, but...
i keep jumping around in it & also reading things that aren't even there, lol. i just finished, tonight, faye kellerman's _moon music_ & am in the process of reading her books. some are better than others...but generally good.
already 2 chapters into a new novel (a splurge in hardback, lol) called _househusband_ by ad hudler & am enjoying it already. it's fiction but has recipes in it & is pretty funny & on-target thus far.
MONA! at the same time i bought the above, i bought _the bondswoman's narrative_ edited by henry louis gates, which looks incredible! our local paper even had an article on it either this week or last--to quote the dust jacket, it's the "only known novel by a female african-american slave, & quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere." gates bought the manuscript at an auction of african american artifacts; he's a historian, & has edited it & is still in the process of searching for info on hannah crafts, the author.
others in my stack: _sister carrie_ by theodore dreiser, which i read part of in grad school; _the good earth_ by pearl s. buck which i've wanted to read for ages; _the inextinguishable symphony: a true story of music & love in nazi germany_ by martin goldsmith (it's about his parents; & he's one of the announcers on npr-classical music); _notorious victoria_ by mary gabriel, about victoria woodhull, the first woman to run for president; & _lift up thy voice: the grimke family's journey from slaveholders to civil rights leaders_ by mark perry. that's what's waiting on my nightstand in the pile closer to my pillow, lol.
having finished my phd in history 1.5 yrs ago, i am just now coming to the point where i can read history b/c i want to & not b/c i feel compelled to...& i'm beginning to be able to resist the urge to read w/a pencil in my hand & mark up the books, lol!!
then, too, i'm also reading, at the same time, _so that's what they're for_ about bf'ing, & _defining your own success: breastfeeding after breast reduction surgery_. so i'm sometimes surprised to look down & see what's in my hand, lol!!
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I haven't been reading much this year, it has been hectic. I am in the middle of three books; Jo's boys by Louisa May Alcott, Ex Libris by Ross King, and Home Education-training and educating children under nine by Charlotte Mason. I will let you know how they are when I finally get through them! I won't even list the huge amount that I want to get through before summer is over.
Thanks Amity!
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