November 2016 Moms
SandNStarsNJ
member
What's the last book you read? What did you think?
What's your favorite book? Why?
What's next in your reading queue?
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
What's your favorite children's book?
GTKY: Reading & Books
SandNStarsNJ
member
Thought we could try a getting to know you (GTKY) and since so many of use mentioned an interested (pre and post baby) in reading, we could start there.
What's the last book you read? What did you think?
What's your favorite book? Why?
What's next in your reading queue?
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
What's your favorite children's book?
Married: 08.05.11
Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
Second pregnancy EDD: 06.16.16 MC: 10.29.15
Welcomed baby boy: 11.25.16
Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
Second pregnancy EDD: 06.16.16 MC: 10.29.15
Welcomed baby boy: 11.25.16
Re: GTKY: Reading & Books
I'm in the middle of Tana French's The Trespasser. Eh, it's ok, it hasn't gripped me the way her other books have, from the get go.
What's your favorite book? Why?
I have several, depends on the genre. Kate Atkinson's Behind The Scenes of the Museum is one of them because the story is moving, yet suspenseful and beautifully written. My all time is probably Little Women. It's the first book I remember dying to finish and reread again.
What's next in reading queue?
The Summer Before The War. I loved the authors debut but couldn't really get into this one but I'll try again after I finish The trespasser.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
yep, I try to read to her to daily.
What's your favorite children's book?
I have two (again); Ferdinand and Hattie and the Wild Waves
I just finished The Other Wes Moore, which was pretty good and very introspective. It's about two men with the same name, growing up in the same area but with very different outcomes - one in prison and the other an Oxford scholar writing the book.
What's your favorite book? Why?
I don't know if I have one. I love a lot of books and a lot of essays. And honestly essays might be my favorite. I'm a big fan of George Orwell's Politics and the English Language and Brent Staples's Just Walk on By. And I do find quite a few YA books to be guilty pleasures.
What's next in your reading queue?
I have Originals and Ebony and Ivy both sitting on my nightstand. Hoping to get through at least one before maternity leave is up.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
Absolutely! We started reading to DD at 3 months every night and are still going strong (2.5 now). It's part of our bedtime ritual and she always tried for more books than we have time. I hope to instill a similar zeal in DS.
What's your favorite children's book?
World on a String - it's beautiful and a little sad as an adult (but aren't they all? I mean, The Giving Tree isn't all that much of a feel good book). Oh, and anything by Mo Willems is super fun.
Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
Second pregnancy EDD: 06.16.16 MC: 10.29.15
Welcomed baby boy: 11.25.16
-Girl On the Train! Loved it! I thought the book was way better than the movie.
What's your favorite book? Why?
- A Thousand Splended Suns which is weird because it's so not what I would think. It's like the Kite Runner sort of but from the women's perspective and I could not put it down which is weird because it normally takes me months to finish a book lol
What's next in reading queue?
No idea
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
Yes! His favorite is Chicka Chika Boom Boom right now lol
What's your favorite children's book?
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
What's your favorite book? Why? I don't know if I have a favorite. I do own "In the Minds of Billy Milligan" and read it every few years. His multiple personalities really intrigue me and how they go through the process of combining them all.
What's next in your reading queue? the newest Stephanie plum boom that came out in November.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
Without a doubt. We already do and big sister (3yo) reads to her too.
What's your favorite children's book? you can't ask a kindergarten teacher her favorite children's book! There are way too many! I really love the (original) Pete the Cat books. Kevin Henkes books are favorites too. And I love reading David Shannon books to my 5 year olds. Then there's classics like "where the wild things are" and "good night moon" and a million others.
I'm reading the storied life of A.J. Fikrey for my mommy book club. It's not my favorite, pretty predictable and an easy read. Which is a nice thing with two kids.
What's your favorite book? Why?
I don't know. I never was a huge reader and really have only read when I joined the book group. I liked Girl on the train and Gone Girl.
What's next in your reading queue?
whatever is next in the book club que. I haven't heard yet.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
You bet! We read to our daughter every night. She reads to her baby sister and we will continue to read to both every night.
What's your favorite children's book?
I could go to my kids room to find it, but I can't remember the name. It's about a mouse who has a strawberry and he tries different ways to hide it so not to attract the hungry bear.
Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
Second pregnancy EDD: 06.16.16 MC: 10.29.15
Welcomed baby boy: 11.25.16
What's the last book you read? What did you think?
shopaholic to the stars. It was good If you've read the whole shopaholic series.
Confessions of a shopaholic. It is what got me into Sophie Kinsella. I LOVE her books. They are light and funny and I can just get lost in them!
What's next in your reading queue?
DH gave me the most recent book in shopaholic series for Christmas last year and I still haven't cracked it. Horrible! I should find that...
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO?
Yes!! I love reading to him! I try to frequently. Soon we will make it our bedtime routine.
What's your favorite children's book?
classic : love you forever
current : the boy who lost his name (personalized book with masons name in it!)
future(when his attention span is better): anything Disney !!
What's your favorite book? Why? I don't think I have a favorite. I like the Harry Potter series.
What's next in your reading queue? I have been trying to get through the sookie stackhouse novels but it's been hard to find time.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO? yes. We have sometimes at bedtime. Hope to make it part of the routine.
What's your favorite children's book? Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Wacky Wednsday.
- BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
TTC#2 April 2019What's your favorite book? Why? I have so many, but a few of them are: The Dovekeepeers by Alice Hoffman, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling, the True Blood series by Charlaine Harris (hated the series they made out of it though!)
What's next in your reading queue? My mom's book club I just joined is reading All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda for February so that's next on my list if I can get it at the library. (Both books this book club has done so far have had big wait lists on them which is a bit annoying - not everyone has a budget to buy every book, or wants to own them.)
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO? Absolutely. So far her favorite is Harold and the Purple Crayon. She always cries when I try to read Goodnight Moon to her, maybe she'll grow into that one?
What's your favorite children's book? I'm with @camcbeth - The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey & Don Wood is my hands down favorite kid's book.
What's your favorite book? Why? The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Makes my heart hurt in the best way. I reread it every summer.
What's next in your reading queue? I make the mistake of reading too many things at once—books and magazines. Right now, I'm reading WTE The First Year and the Wonder Weeks as E progresses. Kind of reading The Danish Way of Parenting. For fun, The Girls.
Do you plan to read (or are you) to your LO? Definitely plan to more in the future (papa is an English teacher). We haven't been great about it so far.
What's your favorite children's book? Harry Potter(s)! Baby books.. I love Love You Forever, but it makes me cry every time!
Anyone have a good recommendation for a book club? We need some new ideas.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Help by Kathryn Stocket
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
... I could keep going, but I'll stop there for now.
Welcomed baby girl: 06.10.14
Second pregnancy EDD: 06.16.16 MC: 10.29.15
Welcomed baby boy: 11.25.16