The most elaborate of them all is BookGirl's Nightstand. Just click on the reference section to check out her archives and a huge list of links to other book blogs. I was also happy to find Bookmark My Heart, A Life In Books, A High and Hidden Place and Out in the Woods. Also be sure to check out A Readable Feast at ClubMom. It is a really cool site that mixes recipes with info on lots of different childrens books.
Speaking of reading a good book, how about reading a book about reading books (are you confused yet)? Check out the memoir So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson. The author challenges herself to read a book a week for a year and then keep a journal on how the reading material intersects with her life.
Or how about The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble? It's a work of fiction about five women, living very different lives, who meet monthly for a bookclub.
Check out this really beautiful children's book that I found in my local library last night. Please Bury Me in the Library (or Libary, as Leah calls it) is a book of poems celebrating a love of books and reading. One of my favorites from the book is below
"Great, Good, Bad"
A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.
I must stop typing now, since I need some time to read Prep tonight. Happy reading!
16 comments:
I, too, love books. Something that's sorely missing this summer is my weekly trip to the library for a stack of new books. I do, however, have the next three and a half weeks of neither work or school, so perhaps I will get over to the library before the week is out and find something compelling!
Great post! Thank you for the links. If I ever figure out how to categorize my blog in blogger I want to include this too! I love hearing about what everyone is reading.
Thanks a lot! I already have a bazillion books to read and now I have more! Seriously, thanks for the info. I have to read "So Many Books, So Little Time"!
I'll be curious to hear how you like Prep. It was written by a woman my sister went to school with..and we are rather interested in hearing how those who don't actually know the characters view it.
I'm not a huge reader but I might check out some of these for the last month of summer. I do love beautiful illustrated children's books though, can't wait to buy more for our little Grace.
Hi Stephanie!!! Glad to see you like my blog! I checked out Please Bury Me at the Library earlier this year for my daughter and we both loved it. It is so beautiful. And I loved the poems. Happy reading!
Have you ever thought about a blog reading club? You could pick a book and who ever is interested we could read it along with you.
Just a thought to give us something to do while we wait.
Stacy just mimicked my thoughts. How 'bout a bloggin book club. That would be awesome.
What about setting up a blog for adopting mommas book club - or take a vote for names. Anyone interested could add the link to their blog.
I'm a total bookworm. When I finish a book & go more than a day or so without something else to pick up, I'm like a junkie, I can't rest until there's something available. Like an itch I need to scratch. (Must be how a smoker feels when they run out of cigarettes)
Don't you just love the smell of a library? I could huff old books & get giddy.
Hi Stephanie - Thank you for stopping by. I'm so happy to "meet" another bookworm :)
I'll have to get acquainted here, and can I just say I must get that Bury Me in a Library book!
Ugh..I love to read but never have the time until bedtime. Then I am up way late reading! Still, I love it and don't care about being cranky in the morning.
I have a stack to read and still keep adding to it!
Keep smilin!
I love books as well.......only the last time I was able to make it through a whole book (wally lamb,I know this much it true) Was when Kai-Li was hospitalized for five days!!
I must say that I've had a look at Prep & was very curious, I'd love to hear what you think. And the Reading Club sounds like a lot of fun - I'll add that to my ever growing list. Right now I've got Digging to America by Anne Tyler next in line.....
Huffing old books (coffee beans)? ROTFLOL!!
oh I love a good book, but I'm more leisure about it. I can't imagine rushing to read a book a week. I am though starting to think about how many books I read on the plan ride over to get our little one.
I can't wait to check out all these new sites and books you listed. I think I have ADHD (the book reading type). Noticed I mad my own new sub catagory. I got a kick out of Leah calling it the Libary. I called it this for the longest time. I knew that kid was as smart as her auntie.
I used to be a voracious reader, before kidlets. Now I'm lucky to get some reading done in the bathtub once or twice a week. But I will be checking these out! Maybe the bookclub too!
Hello! Thanks for including my blog in your shoutouts, and giving me a couple more to check out.
Sara Nelson's book wreaked havoc on my wishlist - between that and How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen, my wishlist about doubled! And although I'm not usually a fan of chicklit, I have to say I quite enjoyed The Reading Group.
Prep is on my wishlist, as I keep seeing in on people's blogs and so many people have mentioned it to me - perhaps I'll have to bump it up on the list!
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