Susan in TN Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 13yods is reading Dune 10yodd is reading Black Beauty 6yodd is sort of reading a book she printed off a website "All About Me" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) My teen dd is feeling she does not want to see Inkheart. It's not that the book was so great; it's not. She has seen the trailers and has told me that she believes the main character has been misrepresented completely. I did not read it, so I do not know. We have a love/hate relationship with books made into movies. We are often eager to see the director's interpretation of the text, and we are often dissapointed. Yet we can't quite stay away. My 9 yr old says that the only book -to -movie she finds true to the author is Bridge to Terabithia. I was suprised by that. But there you go. Edited February 6, 2009 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 ds11 - one of the many Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time" books dd7 - one of the many American Girl books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 My oldest just finished Secret Garden today. I think she is going to move on to Minn of the Mississippi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma23peas Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 13 year old (Thousand Year War "Uncle Eric" book) and Raising the Dragons series, Men of Iron 10 year old (she has 7 books at one time, just finished "A Cricket in Times Square", "The Borrowers" and is still reading "Little Women", "A Murder for her Majesty", "Raising Dragons", "Phanton Stallion") 9 year old (The Borrowers series and A Cricket in Times Square) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 12 yo ds-just finished All Creatures Great and Small, now on All Things Bright and Beautiful. 7 yo ds-rereading The Faraway Tree for the third time-since Christmas! I am also reading through the Chronicles of Narnia with him-just started The Silver Chair. School RA for 7 yo and 12 yo is Pyle's King Arthur. It's a big of a slog but we're managing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) DD 14 - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Language Police, Assumptions That Affect Our Lives DD 10 - Understood Betsy, D'Aulaire's Norse Myths, and various Dick King-Smith books at night Edited February 6, 2009 by Alphabetika I hit "tab" accidentally and it posted when I was halfway done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 8yo ds: finishing up Ginger Pye, starting on Goonie Bird Greene, also reading Machines & How They Work. 5yo dd: says she can't read anything but the Bob books are too easy. She read a nf book about butterflies to me this week while waiting in the dr's office. She cracks me up. 1yo dd: The Target ad. It had ducks in it, & she tore it open to get to them, so she could stare at them & Quack. 6mo ds: the newspaper. It's all over the house, for packing, & he manages to find it & rip it apart. Literally. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCoppock Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 DS is reading The Golem's Eye, The Eagle of the Ninth, Call it Courage, and also some other book about a princess that doesn't behave the way she is "suppose" to and runs away to live with a dragon. He loves to read, so I am hoping this list gives me a few ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 My teen dd is feeling she does not want to see Inkheart. It's not that the book was so great; it's not. She has seen the trailers and has told me that she believes the main character has been misrepresented completely. I did not read it, so I do not know. We have a love/hate relationship with books made into movies. We are often eager to see the director's interpretation of the text, and we are often dissapointed. Yet we can't quite stay away. My 9 yr old says that the only book -to -movie she finds true to the author is Bridge to Terabithia. I was suprised by that. But there you go. I thought the first Harry Potter movie was pretty true to the book - so much better than the following movies, anyway. I agree with your dd. I saw the trailer (just finished the book) and honestly thought maybe I had mistakenly clicked the wrong link. I also would have never chosen the actor who plays Mo - totally not how I pictured him in my mind. I see him and instantly think "Dudley Do Right" and that is just oh so ...wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plimsoll Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 My 9yo son recently finished: Howard Pyle, The Wonder Clock Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales Kathryn Lasky, The Librarian who Measured the Earth L. Frank Baum, most of the Oz books Currently reading: Edward Eggleston, Stories of American Life and Adventure Anita Ganeri, Earth and Space: Fascinating Facts About Our World & Space About to start: Nancy Farmer, The Sea of Trolls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Do audio books count? My first two have listened to most of their reading via cd/tapes. and my 6 year old will wear out a book but she can only do the basic words for now. nothing too complex so...for fun my kids are reading: 17ds audio book: Henty's Right to Conquest (I think that is the name) real books: TH Whites The Once and Future King 9 dd InkHeart (real book), Fairest - audio 6 dd Fun With Pets (and very proud of herself if I may say so) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 dd10- Finishing the Bunnicula Series ds14- Moby Dick (his choice-not assigned) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Does your ds11 like Inkheart? I am reading it right now (my son wants to see the movie and I told him he had to read the book first. Now I am reading it so I can see the movie with him. I don't like to watch movies based on books when I haven't read the book). Thus far, I am not enthused. I was just wondering if this is more appealing to a kid than it is to an adult? My daughter read Inkheart a few years ago and fell completely in love with it. She has re-read it multiple times and has read both sequels. I read most of Inkheart at her insistence a couple of years ago and then set it aside. Then all three of us listened to the audiobook in the car a couple of months ago. My son and I both enjoyed it very much. We're all, shall we say, ambivalent about the movie, since much of the casting seems wrong and the previews don't seem to have much to do with the book. For what it's worth, I think this is a real "book person" book. It will appeal most to people who don't just "like to read" but who consider books their best friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie in Oh Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 DS (Almost 11)- Detectives in Toags for school, Dark Hills Divide (Elyon) and Sherlock Holmes for fun DD (9) - Just finsihed Plain Girl and Gone Away Lake for School, waiting on The Wolves of Willoughby Chase from the library, A Wrinkle in Time for fun DD (7)- Charlotte's Web for school, Ivy and Bean books for fun DD (5) - just finsished Saxon K phonics and has started reading "First Steps" the first Pathway Reader to me -- yeah another reader in the house. I am currently strating For the Temple by Henty-- a sort of pre-read for DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 DS13 - Buddha: His Life and His Teaching by Walter Henry Nelson (personal) and Fahrenheit 451 (school). DS17 - Rolling Stone and Mental Floss magazines...he is completely swamped with (public high) school work at the moment and is studying every minute he's not eating, sleeping, or running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBP Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Does your ds11 like Inkheart? I am reading it right now (my son wants to see the movie and I told him he had to read the book first. Now I am reading it so I can see the movie with him. I don't like to watch movies based on books when I haven't read the book). Thus far, I am not enthused. I was just wondering if this is more appealing to a kid than it is to an adult? Well, my son is reading it for much the same reason you are - DH told him he couldn't see the movie unless he read the book first ;). He does seem to like it well enough so far, but he's about 100 pages in and said today that, "nothing's happened yet," which he seems to find a bit frustrating. Hopefully it will pick up for him soon and he'll be able to get into it more. SBP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Well, my son is reading it for much the same reason you are - DH told him he couldn't see the movie unless he read the book first ;). He does seem to like it well enough so far, but he's about 100 pages in and said today that, "nothing's happened yet," which he seems to find a bit frustrating. Hopefully it will pick up for him soon and he'll be able to get into it more. SBP I finally finished the book last night. The last 200 pages or so were worth reading. However, I admit that I was bored stiff through the first 350. :( The action was just not all that interesting to me and it really seemed to drag on and on and on when it didn't have to. The movie...OMG...could anything BE more different than a book? I mean, where in the world did the Wizard of Oz and the tornado thing come from? I don't think the book even so much as mentions the Wizard of Oz...much less bases the ending on it. How weird. That is one of the most ridiculous uses of literary license I have ever seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 My daughter read Inkheart a few years ago and fell completely in love with it. She has re-read it multiple times and has read both sequels. I read most of Inkheart at her insistence a couple of years ago and then set it aside. Then all three of us listened to the audiobook in the car a couple of months ago. My son and I both enjoyed it very much. We're all, shall we say, ambivalent about the movie, since much of the casting seems wrong and the previews don't seem to have much to do with the book. For what it's worth, I think this is a real "book person" book. It will appeal most to people who don't just "like to read" but who consider books their best friends. Yes, the movie is just absurd! I agree, it is for a "book person." I do a lot of reading, but books are not my life. Perhaps that made a differnce. I was also reading just on the heels of the Twilight series and, well, let's just say it didn't "suck me in" quite the same way. Perhaps this is a book that is much more for children than for adults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runamuk Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Ellie (9yod) is reading McCaughrean's The Odyssey (for school), Trumpet of the Swan (my pick for reading) and one of the Babysitter's Club books (her pick for reading). Mac (4yos) is working on the first two BOB books. We're also reading Dr. Seuss and Beatrix Potter. We're on the waiting list for Inkheart at the library. Ellie's not sure if she wants to see the movie, though. We read Spiderwick and The Tale of Despareaux then saw the movies; she was very disappointed that they didn't follow the books more closely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 ds 12: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle dd 10: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis dd 8: Pippi Longstocking and The Door in the Wall ds 5: loving his Tag Reader...current favorite: Po's Tasty Training Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 ER is reading either Eldest or Brisingr by Christopher Paolini and House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. EK just finished The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers and is also reading one of Robin Jones Gunn's "Sierra Jensen" books. She is about to start The Shack by William P. Young. Unlike me, my kids usually have at least two books going at any given time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizyPenguin Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 ds is reading Bud, Not Buddy dd is into the Berstain Bears lately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeccaC Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) Oldest son- House by Dekker & Peretti Youngest son- Showdown by Dekker Both are reading; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself Eyewitness to Gettysburg: The Story of Gettysburg As Told by the Leading Correspondent of His Day by Charles Coffin Edited February 8, 2009 by RebeccaC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 All three are reading Pilgrim's Progress (the younger two are reading the Abeka reader version) DD12 is probably reading through her stack of fiction....she averages a book a day..lol. Her junk food reading is usually the Warrior series or something about dragons. I did see her reading Helen Keller last night too. She's also reading through an Arabian tale collection. DDs8 are reading Helen Keller, and the Doll House People. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 ER is reading either Eldest or Brisingr by Christopher Paolini and House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. EK just finished The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers and is also reading one of Robin Jones Gunn's "Sierra Jensen" books. She is about to start The Shack by William P. Young. Unlike me, my kids usually have at least two books going at any given time. I am reading Eragon right now, but I definitely want to read the other two. I also put my name on the list at the library for The Shack. I have heard it is an awesome read. I can't read two books at a time either. I get all kinds of confused. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 My 15yo is reading a book on the history of Robots and Star Wars novels. My 9yo is working on the Chronicles of Narnia (4th book) and Gregor the Overlander (3rd book). The 4yo has become obsessed with search and find books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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