kalphs Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 What books are your currently reading to nourish your mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarcyB Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency cookbooks cookbooks and more cookbooks And that's about it for right now. I'm doing way too much pre-reading for the kids and that takes up most of my free reading time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Reading? Or reading to nourish my mind? There is a difference! I'm reading through the YA series, "The Keys to the Kingdom" I'm also reading "The Jungle" with ds13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted October 2, 2010 Author Share Posted October 2, 2010 Reading? Or reading to nourish my mind? There is a difference! It can be both. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraffe Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Don't laugh... "History of the Ancient World" by SWB And "The Highly Sensitive Child" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted October 2, 2010 Author Share Posted October 2, 2010 Don't laugh... "History of the Ancient World" by SWB And "The Highly Sensitive Child" I've read through the SOTW series too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted October 2, 2010 Author Share Posted October 2, 2010 Nourishment: Mythology by Edith Hamilton Fun: Harry Potter series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoffeeChick Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone One of Robert Ludlum's spy books (Kind of embarassed that I can't think of the title at the moment, I've read a ton of them and they all have similar names. :blushing:) Plus I am doing a final proof reading of my husband's novel that he is publishing through Lulu next month called "The Gift and the Defender" Technically I am in the middle of Don Quixote, but I'm still on chapter 5 and I started it amost a year ago. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edithcrawley Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Sophie's Choice by William Styron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatherwith4 Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm re-reading WTM in preparation for next year. Our current read-aloud is The Trumpet of the Swan. Also, I'm reading I and II Corinthians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People by Les Giblin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I don't know how nourishing they are, but I'm reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Mummy Case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Currently reading Mockingjay, the last in The Hunger Games trilogy. Before that I stalled out halfway through The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. I read it years ago and the same thing happened. Next time maybe I need to just start in the middle. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm currently reading 2 books right now: The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer--ds loves Colfer and when he finishes a book he insists I *must* read it. "Mom this book is awesome!" Triumph by Carolyn Jessop--I read her Escape a couple years ago, this is her follow-up Cinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm reading Last Child in the Woods, In Defense of Food and The Mists of Avalon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalphs Posted October 2, 2010 Author Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm reading Last Child in the Woods, In Defense of Food and The Mists of Avalon. What's your opinion of "Last Child in the Woods?" It's been on my reading list but I haven't gotten to it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm currently reading Wideacre by Philippa Gregory to myself. I'm currently reading On The Banks Of Plum Creek to my daughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Jungle Book with the family. (Loving it!) For me: Peacemaking Women by Tara Barthel (also wonderful) The Young Peacemaker (pre-reading for school & life) Pride and Prejudice (I'm kind of always reading this, though) Redeeming Science (slowly, very slowly) Lots of good stuff :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Little Dorrit (again -- had to check into the library for a week, and re-check it back out) Reading Stuart Little to the twirling girlies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Reading aloud with my younger girls, we just finished The 21 Balloons . On my own, I just finished An Accomplished Woman (great read!) and am now deep in the heart of Texas with the Hat Creek Cattle Co. of Lonesome Dove. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The disappearing spoon : and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements / Sam Kean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm reading: The Everlasting Man- Chesterton Selections off the site sacred-texts.com A String in the Harp- Bond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Reading? Or reading to nourish my mind? There is a difference! It can be both. :) This week my reading definitely doesn't fit the Nourish the Mind category: The Marriage Bureau for Rich People A Guide to the Birds of East Africa When real life gets too heavy I go for light and funny in the reading department. Both of these fit the bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Perelandra by C.S. Lewis and A Patriot's History of the United States by Schweikart and Allen and the The Gospel According to John by D.A. Carson (along with the Bible text) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Reading for myself: Frankenstein The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein Read-alouds I'm currently doing w/ the dc: Wintersmith The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dani n Monies Mom Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jentancalann Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm reading a Lamplighter book, My Mates and I, going through A Charlotte Mason Companion again, as well as reading Pocketful of Pinecones. I've kinda stalled out on Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, but it's still on my bookstand, as well as WTM and East of Eden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset and An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Bl. John Henry Newman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprimis Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities for me. Charlotte's Web and Great Expectations as read-alouds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 A Morbid Taste for Bones, and The Trumpeter of Krakow aloud to the kids. Also various travel guides to Germany :). I'm halfway through Anna Karenina which I started last January and just don't have the gumption to pick up again. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Traveller by Richard Adams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnick in nc Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Fun on my own: Murder Must Advertise by Sayers Fun with DH: Harry Potter 2 Nourishing: History of the Medieval World The Iliad (my slow attempt to get through rhetoric reading lists before DS begins 1st grade next year - :tongue_smilie:) Aloud to DS: Little House on the Prairie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanvan Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I read fast, and I like to alternate between books, so I always have quite a few going at once. I like to read different types of things during different times of the day. For my education: Almost done the first 3, just starting the last one The Worried Child by Paul Foxman, phd The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum by Rousas J Rushdoony Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Gospel of Matthew (and Gospel of Matthew from my Bible) Minds of Boys by Michael Gurian For fun: Raccoons are the Brightest People by Sterling North Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliff For education and fun:Victoria and Albert by David Duff Family Read aloud: Rebbecca of Sunnybrook Farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm still working on Sense and Sensibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i.love.lucy Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Core by Leigh Bortins. Heaven by Randy Alcorn. Gospel Centered Parenting by William Farley I'm contemplating starting The Source by Michener. This week starts Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi for the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberia Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Aeneid by Virgil. I'm finally understanding it this time through! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I'm reading my way through the Booker prize short list. So far I've enjoyed The Long Song and am struggling through The Finkler Question (amusing but not interesting, somehow - I can appreciate how the book is crafted, but don't care about the characters). That's my morning reading. At bedtime I am reading the latest Shardlake mystery to come out in paperback: Revelation, by Sansome. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 What's your opinion of "Last Child in the Woods?"It's been on my reading list but I haven't gotten to it yet. I pretty much agreed with his thesis before I started reading. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Loot by Sharon Waxman Priceless by Robert Wittman & The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard The first two are about art theft and the last is about the avalanche of stuff that many Americans are suffocating under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Core by Leigh Bortins.Heaven by Randy Alcorn. Gospel Centered Parenting by William Farley I'm contemplating starting The Source by Michener. This week starts Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi for the kids. The Source is a great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I've been canning summer, so... Putting Food By, & The Ball Blue Book of Canning are the books I've been falling asleep and waking to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 The Disappearing Spoon (a collection of essays about the periodic table of elements... it's fascinating!) The Hunger Games (the kids and I are reading this at lunch time) Sophie's World (the girls and I are reading this together this year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I'm reading my way through the Booker prize short list. So far I've enjoyed The Long Song and am struggling through The Finkler Question (amusing but not interesting, somehow - I can appreciate how the book is crafted, but don't care about the characters). From the short list, I read Parrot and Oliver in America a few weeks ago & enjoyed it. I think The Long Song looks good; I need to see if our library has it. I also have C on request at the library, but it hasn't come in yet.... Not sure if I could handle Room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 (edited) The Bible The Evolution of Calpernia Tate (children's lit) I *just* finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest yesterday, and I loved it, so I'm trying to figure out what adult book I want to dive into next. The 3 in that series were such a wild ride that I'm not sure where to go from here! :lol: As for nourishing... I'm on a break from that right now! It's been too crazy to wrap my mind around something with depth. Edited October 3, 2010 by jenL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Not sure if I could handle Room. The Long Song was good, but I think her previous novel, Small Island, was better. She's a gifted comic novelist, amongst her other talents, and the subject matter of The Long Song didn't allow her to express that. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I recently finished Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey; I thought it was brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Defeating Darwinism Walk Across the Room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I am reading The Simplified Handbook for Living with Heart Disease and Other Chronic Diseases The Shape Shifter, by Tony Hillerman Her Daughter's Dream, by Francine Rivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satori Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I just finished The Last Child and now reading the Hunger Games. also just read the first 6 books of the owls of ga'hoole series. On iPad so no fancy formatting of titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarlaS Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 What's your opinion of "Last Child in the Woods?"It's been on my reading list but I haven't gotten to it yet. I'm on page 44. I'm glad I'm reading it, and I'd love to discuss it more once I've read it through. I will say this: Like any non-fiction book of this nature, it does seem to be getting a little redundant already. Hopefully someone else will weigh in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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