Monday, March 26, 2012

It's Monday 3/26! What Are Your Reading?


What a rollercoaster week! My older son is finally doing a bit better (he's been incapacitated from his treatment for Lyme disease) and started back to school part-time last week.  He was even able to have his two best friends over this weekend, so we were all in high spirits!  Then, my younger son hurt his knee running around the yard and ended up in the ER for hours last night.  No diagnosis yet - Ortho can't see him until tomorrow - but it seems pretty severe.  The worst part?  Soccer season begins today, and Craig was so excited to be "playing up" on the high school-age team with his brother.  He's exhausted today and also pretty bummed out.

So, for the first time in months, Jamie is actually in school, and Craig is the one lying here on the couch.  I may never be alone in the house again!

Thank goodness for books to help distract us!  Last week, we read:
  • I am still reading Bill Bryson's childhood memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and loving it.  It is highly entertaining, educational, and often laugh-out-loud funny.
  • I am still listening to Marisa De los Santos's novel Falling Together.  I'm enjoying it, but it takes forever to listen to an audio book when you can only manage 10-minute increments!
  • My husband, Ken, finished Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian yesterday and really liked it.  I'm not sure what he is starting next - probably something on his Kindle after all those hours in the ER last night.
  • Jamie, 17, finished re-reading The Magician of Hoad by Margaret Mahy.  He enjoyed it but said that Maddigan's Fantasia is still his favorite of Mahy's novels.
  • Next, Jamie decided to re-read a favorite trilogy, The Books of Umber by P.W. Catanese, starting with Book 1, Happenstance Found, then Book 2, Dragon Games, and he is now reading Book 3, The End of Time.
  • Craig, 14, read The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen, a sailing adventure that was right up his alley!
I didn't have any time for writing reviews last week, but I hope to catch up this week.


What are you and your family reading this week?


(What are you reading Monday is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, with a kids/teen version hosted by Teach Mentor Texts.)

4 comments:

Lindsey said...

I completely understand what you mean about listening to audiobooks. I've been listening to the same one for three months!

Kellee said...

Happy to hear that your son is doing better.

Happy reading to you and your family.

Jen Vincent said...

Hope your sons both feel better soon! Have you read any books by Jordan Sonnenblick? He just had a new one come out, Curveball. It's about a boy who hurts his arm/elbow pitching and then can't play baseball any more. It's his freshman year dealing with not being able to play while at the same time being involved with photography at school because he isn't playing sports. I enjoyed it!

Sue Jackson said...

Hi, Jen -

Yes, I read After Ever After by Jordan Sonneblick. Here's my review:

http://greatbooksforkidsandteens.blogspot.com/2011/12/middle-gradeteen-review-after-ever.html

I have read reviews of Curveball - it sounds good!

Sue