Waking up in a friend’s bed on Saturday morning (next to my darling hubby, while friend slept with her own hubby on the futon in the lounge – cool friend, eh), I had to take a peek into the books on her headboard shelf. A couple of chapters of each. And definitely will return to all of them if I can find them.

A Year in Provence. forgotten the author already. written in the 70s I think.

Bono on Bono. not written by Bono though.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves. now was there a comma in the title or not? seriously hilarious book.
Said friend warned you’d either love it or hate it. “Why would you hate it?” I wanted to know. “If you didn’t get it.” Within a couple of sentences I understood what she meant and she was right. I fell headlong into the *loved it* category. If only the weekend had been longer. Friend might have managed to read the whole thing out to me

But she read giant portions of Blue Like Jazz too. That resonated with me as well. At least, the bits she read out did. Raw honesty. Again, no author in my brain. Maybe Don Someone.

Packing up my nemesis-paper-pile last night, I happened upon a stack of folders and notebooks with our read-aloud records from quite a few years ago. They found themselves gently laid to momentary rest in a box with the promise of being resurrected and recorded in blogland when we return from our out-of-book-experiences over the next year.

I still cling to the hope that I will get last month’s readings up before we leave…and at the rate we are going, this month’s will not take long to record at all………we have spent our reading hours packing boxes! Hopefully as we reach each country we have read about, I’ll finally get round to writing the reviews of the corresponding books. That’s a hope, not a promise

Last month we read nearly seventeen thousand books between us…….

pinch and a punch for the first of the month….it’s April Fools Day!

We didn’t read excessively last month, focussing instead on a range of other activities, but we did churn through a few more books, which are listed here.

it’s been a very non-booky week

we’ve planned and mostly organised a silent auction

we’ve made a couple of books

we’ve been part of the ultimate blog party (had to read for that!!)

we’ve played with the new collage creator programme

we’ve kept everyone fed and generally clean

we’ve sorted the winter clothes and made all necessary purchases apart from two pairs of shoes – all up $60, not too bad eh!

we’ve taken two loads of *stuff* to the sallies

we’ve started a major production run of flower presses

i’ve enjoyed a too-short portion of The Lonesome Gods each evening before bed

we’ve bigtime overhauled the vege garden

but we haven’t read any chapter books aloud
and we’ve missed it

It’s a book party here! Every day.
Feel free to pop in to see what we’ve been reading this year, our favourite-est ever books, how Thomas Jefferson affects us today in New Zealand, book reviews, gold stars, our education plan (which includes no gold stars)….come on in and join the conversation.

And if you want to see some of my other loves, you could visit Pilgrims’ Progress, which will eventually be a record of our family’s trip around the world (though we don’t leave for another seven months seven months less one day, but we’ve still got lotsa posts and pages up) and have pinny, will cook (the pinny part I love, the cooking I could take or leave, but I really did want to give my kids – and there happen to be eight of them – a wee record of why we eat what we do, so there you have it).
Oh, and about those kids – they love getting comments on their two blogs as well. If you’d be so kind as to pop in and say HI to them, their smiles would reach all the way to the moon: inventions and adventures……..in awe and wonder

I’ve added a new page in the sidebar – a place for us to record the books we read aloud as a family and what each individual churns through as well. We’re just including *completed* books – not ones we dip into for bits and bobs of information or interest. I’ll link to any reviews we end up doing.

Anyone read my last post?
According to my stat counter, you have.

Anyone answer my last post?
Nope.

But do I have the answer?
Yes. There they are over at Birds’ Books.
I just *knew* there was a bird in it somewhere!
Pity I was googling *nest*.

So where did I find it?
On my very own blog!!!!

Now to remember why I wanted to look them up again

I happened upon a blog out there in cyber-space a few weeks back. It was basically a couple’s reading list going back ten or so years….and they were making comments about the books they’d been reading if I recall correctly. I *thought* they commented here…..but I cannot for the life of me find their comment so I guess my brain is playing up!

Just In Case they are reading or you, one of my other seven readers, happen to be able to work out who I am talking about from my admittedly very vague description above, could you leave a link so I can make contact? Oh, I just remembered, I think there was something about *nest* in the title.

Talk about searching for a needle in a haystack. WordPress alone has nearly two million blogs!

Look at that!
A couple of posts from this here blog are linked at the sixth TJEd carnival. This post is not to blow my trumpet, but to highlight the carnival And even though it’s old news, there’s not another carnival until the end of January, so it’s not quite history yet.

Completed: first reading of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen
Eagerly anticipating the second reading.
It took all my effort to NOT underline choice passages during this reading!

In looking for a picture of the book I came upon an interesting-looking study of the book. I’m linking it here so I can go back to it after I’ve done my own thinking.
And of course there’s the Wiki-Notes too!