And isn't this the truth: a nice NPR article on Pick up your smartphones less and you could think better!
There are so many classic books I wish I read in grammar school as well as high school. So many books that I skimmed in college because there were sections that we need to read for English lit or women's literature classes. And then there's brain drain, where there is so much that I don't remember from my readings. So now I feel like I'm on a mission, I read this great piece of advice once that said if your's children see you reading, they will read more. Add to the fact that ever since my older son was a baby we have been reading to our children every single night. With very very few extreme Occasions (Midnight christmas eve celebrations, or the like) in between where we hadn't read to them.
So now it's time for me to fulfill some of my reading fantasies. I want to read the books that I've been collecting for years, finding a garage sales, and most recently finding great articles about books that have come out, or movies that were made about great books. Yes I'm a nerd, so this mom keeps a note in her iPhone called my reading list. Every time I'm at the library I pick up one of these books intending to read it. Twice now I've taken a book out for three weeks and not even cracked the cover, however that's all going to change soon.
While our house guest was here over the last two months of winter, my husband had an inspiration and instituted a Sunday afternoon reading time. While my baby girl takes her nap, the rest of us need to be reading magazines or books, and not playing or reading on the iPad.
This is my book list as kept in my phones notes... And I hope It gets shorter with new books added! (Thatll mean I am reading.)
- We Were Liars, E. Lockhart. Imagine Secret History if it took place amid the Glass family.
- Member of the wedding by carson mccullers
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Picnic at hanging rock by joan lindsay
- The fever by Megan Abbott (best-selling author of Dare Me) teenage sexuality, hormones and social pressure.
- Dr. Shefali The conscious parent
- (I saw her interview on Oprah, I think I leverage these strategies already...)
- Getting the love you want by Harville Hendrix
- Cold blood truman capote
- Harriet the spy polaccos
- Anne of green gables
- The keepin quilt fitzhughes
- Mrs Katz n tush
- Thunder cake
- Boxcar children
- The borrowers
- L'Engle "A wrinkle in time" J Battle paperback
- Percy Jackson
- The maze runner
- Sharp objects
- Gone girl
- Deadwood
- The alchemist
- The husbands secret - moriarty
- The fault in our stars
- James Scott's "the kept" in upsate ny
- The Flamethrowers (Kushner), The Goldfinch (Tartt), The Year of the Flood (Atwood), Love Marriage (Ganeshananthan), Bones of an Inland Sea (Akers), Bark: Stories (Moore), Queen of the Underworld (Godwin), The Lover (Duras), and Agaat (van Niekerk).
- Pack up the moon
- Darynda jones grave books
- "How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky" by Lydia Netzer.
- "Masterminds and Wingmen" by Rosalind Wiseman.
- Lost lake
- Ursula leguin
- The doctors who wore petticoats
- I am Malala
- Bossy pants
- YOUNG ADULTS
- Enders game series & Enders shadow by Orson Scott card
- His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
- Shades Children by Garth Nix
- Abhorsen trilogy, Gareth Nix
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- The fault in our stars John Green
- The giver Lois Lawry
- Divergent, Veronica Roth
- Bartimaeus trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
- The song of the lioness Tamora Pierce
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- The absolute true diary of a part time Indian Sherman Alexie
- Uglies, Pretties, Special, & so yesterday Scott westerfield
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Just Listen, Sarah Dessen
- Feed MT Anderson
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
- A wrinkle in time Madelaine Lengle
- Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
- Monster Walter dean myers
I think to make myself feel better I will create a list of all the books I have read. Regardless if, well, their kids books, because that's all I really do.... is read about Arthur, Harry, Jack and Annie, Ramona, and now stolin, hitler and other 5th grade learnings.
I do feel better. Cause I do read everyday.
Make Mistakes, breathe, reflect, Laugh.Out.Loud.
