It’s Monday! What are you reading? is a great meme hosted by Sheila over at Book Journey, where participants share their weekly reading goals.
So I’ve been away from blogging for about a month now and there is so much to write about. I’ve read a ton of books and have so many reviews to write. In the past month I’ve read:
Adult books
- The Wisdom of the Radish by Lynda Hopkins
- A Discovery of Witches by Debra Harkness
- Photocraft: Cool Things to do with the Pictures you Love by Croline Herter, Laurie Frankel, Laura Lovett
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Love by Toni Morrison
- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
- Quarantine by Rahul Mehta (DNF)
- Blessing of the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
Children’s books
- Cinnamon Baby by Nicola Winstanley
- How do you Wokka-Wokka? by Elizabeth Bluemle
- A Couple of Boys have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
- LuRue Across America by
- Are you Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
- The Boy Who Cried Ninja by
- Ladybug Girl at the Beach
- Wolf by Beck Bloom
- Should I Share my Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
- There’s a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems
- The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges
- Donavon’s Big Day by
- The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town by
- Genius of Islam by
- Cars Galore by
- I Will Surprise my Friend by Mo Willems
- A Book by Mordecii Gerstein
- Fairly Fairy Tales by Esme Raji Codell
- Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen
- Noni Says No by Heather Hartt-Sussman
- The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps by Jeanette Winter
- The Chicken Thief by Beatrice Rodriguez
- Fox and Hen Together by Beatrice Rodriguez
- To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda
- Foxy and Egg by Alex T. Smith
- Amazing Faces by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Chris Soentpiet
I loved almost everything that I read. I can’t wait to review and discuss my books with everyone.
This week I’m reading:
- Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (re-read with my daughter)
- Love by Toni Morrison (re-reading before I write my review this week)
- The Best American Poetry 2011 edited by Kevin Young
There’s so much to catch up on in the blogging world. I’m sure that my Google Reader is at 1000+ posts. It’ll be fun to go and visit everyone. So that’s what I’m hoping to read. What are you reading this week?
GREAT to see you, my dear. And OH what a haul of great reading! Wow! I can’t wait to read your reviews.
It’s so good to see you blogging again. I see a bunch of familiar books in your long list.
The best book I read last week was Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder. Please come see what I finished and what’s up next.
Ooh, I spot some Mo Willems books in your list that Dylan and I haven’t read yet! The Photocraft book looks interesting, too.
Wow that’s a lot of books!! I just read Wisdom of the Radish too and LOVED it!!
Holy cow, but you’ve been busy! It’s good to see you back.
That’s a lot of books! Looks very productive.
Hooray for being back! What a lot of reading!
I’m heading for more Toni Morrison this autumn: I’m really looking forward to it, and I agree that her books are always worth re-reading. Glad to see you’ve been reading so much, and that you’ve been enjoying it a great deal as well!
Ooh, I can’t wait to hear what you think of A Discovery of Witches, which was one of my favorite reads of the year so far! Glad to see you back again too, by the way!
Oh I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on A Discovery of Witches, it has received so many great reviews! I have it on my shelf but haven’t read it yet.
Glad you are back! We missed you!
Off to read the review you just posted.
Wow! It looks like you got some quality reading done on your break
Glad to see that you are back and can’t wait to hear your thoughts on these!
I’m reading “Miss Garrote” by Victoria Newhope. It’s about a girl spy, rat ways (a system of underground tunnels dug under Europe), a clan of the Untouchables, the descendants of Templars, and many other cool things. Very interesting book. Amazon has few chapters available.
I’ve been waiting and waiting for 2011 Poetry! Hope you enjoy it.
Welcome back, lovely lady. I just took a month off too. Dying to know how schools doing etc. Email me when you get a chance.