The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Wow! Nice trip. I really enjoyed this book. It kept me captivated and the weirdness was mixed with normal everyday life. I liked it lots. Pretty great review, eh? Well, let's just say that I am much more into reading right now than writing. No one reads this blog anyway.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Wow. I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I have never read a book like this. Honestly. I just don't know what else to say about it. It created such a sense of gratitude for the world around me. The green grass, the birds, the relative safety I live in. It is all such a gift. Thank you, Mr. McCarthy, for writing such a love story between a father and his son and such an insight to what we would be missing if it all were taken away.

Reading catch up

All right, I know that I don't have a large readership on this blog, and that is not what it is for, anyway...it is a journal for myself, really. But, I have not updated here in awhile. Mainly, as a homeschooling mother, I am very busy throughout the school year and I really am only released to read in the summer months. So, I will try to update what I have read since September.

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Princess and the Goblins by George MacDonald

'Tis by Frank McCourt

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll

Darcy and Elizabeth by Linda Berdoll

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

The three books at the end of my list I finished within the last month or so. They are the official summer "kick off" books for me. I am currently reading, with great joy, David McCullough's Mornings on Horseback, a non-fiction account of the childhood of Theodore Roosevelt. I will check back in as I continue. I am buying books left and right at yard sales and such, printing out the 100 most important fiction books of our time, (determined to fit one of them into my summer plans) and I am so READY for this summer's adventures to begin!!

If you are into good books and wonderful reading adventures, I raise a toast and say cheers....lets get to the pages.

Jules