WWW Wednesdays

MizB of Should Be Reading sponsors this weekly meme so we can share what we're all doing reading-wise!

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading:




Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and The Tudors by G.J. Meyer



Recently Finished Reading:




Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Di Camillo and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Up Next:



Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's mine:
There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness; not a light gleamed from any house, far or near; all had been extinguished long ago; and those at Wuthering Heights were never visable...still she asserted she caught their shining.
~ Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Kids Picks - July

How is it already July?!? somehow I've been missing Kids Picks lately but I was determined to participate this month!!!

We are moving right along in our reading challenges...Tucker has completed 12 books for the Borders challenge and got Johnny Tremaine as his free book. He also has to keep track of the books he reads and will receive a certificate for participating in Summer Reading when he goes back to school. We're also participating in the summer reading challenge at our library and he needs to read either 5 picture books or 20 minutes a day (each week). We've ended up doing a combination of these so far depending on his mood.

We've been listening to audio books this summer and have completed Wizard of Oz, which as a major fan of the movie I was surprised I had never read it! We both really enjoyed it and I loved how intently he listened to it! It was SO different from the movie version and I really enjoyed talking with Tucker about the differences.


In addition to reading a few Magic Tree House books, the last one being High Tide in Hawaii, we've been listening to the books on CD! It's been fun catching up on some of the earlier ones we missed.


We've been going through Tucker's books lately and came upon this favorite! A couple of Christmas's ago, Santa brought him this Curious George book and CD set. We have been listening to this in the car non-stop for almost a week and he even listened to at my mom's when he was there all day Friday!

Read Aloud Thursday

Hope from Hope Is The Word sponsors a weekly meme of what we are reading with our kids. This is my first time participating!


We have been hooked on Magic Treehouse books this summer! This is the latest one we finished. We've also been listening to them in the car!


We just started this book tonight. We read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last summer and I've been wanting to read the sequel for awhile!

WWW Wednesdays

MizB of Should Be Reading sponsors this weekly meme so we can share what we're all doing reading-wise! This is my first week participating!

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

My answers:



I am currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (in honor of the 50th anniversary of its printing) and am listening to I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass


I recently finished reading Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I (for the Tudor Reading Challenge) by Kathryn Lasky, The Color Purple by Alice Walker (for the The Color Purple Summer Read-Along). With my son, we finished listening to the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (for the Take Another Chance Challenge). We both really enjoyed it and it was really interesting to talk with him about the differences between the movie and the book.


Next up for me is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (which will be my last book for theTake Another Chance Challenge. Now I need to write them all up!!) I'm not sure what's up next for me audio book-wise but I'll pick one up at the library this weekend!

Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

In honor of its 50th anniversary, I'm re-reading To Kill A Mockingbird.

"Jem heard me. He thrust his head around the connecting door. As he came to my bed Atticus's light flashed on. We stayed where we were until it went off; we heard him turn over, and we waited until he was still again."

~ To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

A New Beginning

As I find myself being more selective about the books I chose to read, whether for a reading challenge or simply with my son, I realized that I really needed a separate blog to record my reading experiences. I plan to use this space to keep track of reading challenges, participate in book blogging memes, or to just just record my thoughts on a particular book or two I have read.