living books for mom

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  • January 23, 2013 at 5:44 pm
    bethanna
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    I need something new to read, especially when up at night feeding baby. I have a biography going as well as Eliz. Pantley’s books about sleep & potty-training. (Thank you, Tristan, for that suggestion!) CM’s original series is my “stiff” reading, but I’ve been neglecting it lately. So I was thinking of fiction or something funny to help me stay awake! I have many Jane Austin & the Anne of Green Gables series, but I’d like to read something new. Suggestions?

    January 23, 2013 at 6:26 pm
    curlywhirly
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    I have enjoyed

    Jane Eyre– Charlotte Brontë

    Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

    Villette- Charlotte Bronte

    The Tennant of Wildfell Hall- Anne Brontë

    The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton

    The House of Mirth  by Edith Wharton

    Anything by PG Wodehouse

     

    January 23, 2013 at 7:27 pm
    eawerner
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    What about going through any Newberry winners you haven’t read yet? They would be easier reads but still good books.

    January 23, 2013 at 7:39 pm
    ServingwithJoy
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    I love the James Herriot novels for something light and funny. They are:

    All Things Bright and Beautiful

    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Things Wise and Wonderful

    The Lord God Made Them All

    These are his chronological story, so they should be read in order. Each chapter is really like a complete short story, which makes it very easy to read in small doses.

    I am also looking into the Fairacre series by Miss Read on the recommendation of a friend – but I haven’t read them yet, so I can’t really recommend them.

    January 23, 2013 at 7:40 pm
    ServingwithJoy
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    Oh – and I read Christy for the first time while nursing a little one. It isn’t really funny, but if you haven’t ever read it, you certainly have a treat in store for you!

    January 23, 2013 at 8:29 pm
    LyndaF
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    I am not sure if anyone would be interested, but on Currclick, there is supposed to be a book club starting for adults. It is being run by Alba Rice, who does the free Charlotte Mason club meetings on there. It should be posted under free clubs sometime this month. Just thought that I would share:)

    January 23, 2013 at 9:21 pm
    bethanna
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    Has anyone read these & could give feedback? The Homeschool Experiment by Charity Hawkins. Bringing Them Home by Elizabeth Wiens. The Faith & Freedom trilogy by Douglas Bond. (wondering if that last is something like Gilbert Morris ? books)

    January 23, 2013 at 9:36 pm
    RobinP
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    Just read Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry while on vacation. Excellent!

    January 24, 2013 at 12:11 am
    petitemom
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    I have been reading Biblical fictions lately. It is good as long as I remember they are fiction!! I LOVED the red tent and a pearl in the sand.

    January 24, 2013 at 1:21 am
    Nina
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    I have the Homeschool Expirement by Charity Hawkins. It is a funny, quick read 🙂

    January 24, 2013 at 4:28 am
    Kalle
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    My favorite book is Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss.

    January 24, 2013 at 12:25 pm
    pianogirl363
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    Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

    Christy and Julie – Catherine Marshall

    Chronicles of the Kings series – Lynn Austin (You won’t falll asleep reading these!)

     

    January 24, 2013 at 12:56 pm
    TailorMade
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    More than a decade ago, I took a year, or so, to read books I’d never read while growing up. Our older children hadn’t read them either, because of the way we homeschooled them at the time. I chose books that would reflect the type of atmosphere, discipline, and life I wanted to create for our family at home. The books needed to be easy because I wasn’t a fiction reader. I “never had time for fiction.”  I still (mostly) feel that way. But, I read tons and tomes of fiction at all levels to/for our family now because that time off from the perpetual study of non-fiction had basically been the accumulation of skeletal facts…reading fiction added meat to the bones. ;0)

    Those that stand out to me (and the truly were light, yet deep reading):

    All of a Kind Family series, by Sydney Taylor !!!!!

    Mother Carey’s Chickens, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin !!!!!

    Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher !!!!

    Streams to the River, River to the Sea, by Scott O’Dell !!!!!

    As I remember them, I will add to this list. My suggestion is to get a good book list like All Through the Ages, by Christine Miller, or Honey for a Child’s Heart, by Gladys Hunt, and choose some titles that you have never read. Stay a bit ahead of your children’s reading levels on the list and mark those you’d like to use as read aloud titles you want to be read as a family and those you think are better suited for assigned reading. It’s a great way to plan while taking a breather at the same time. 🙂

    Blessings,

    Becca<><

    P.S.   Nursing without a book in hand does more to develop an atmosphere of peace than reading a book about it. 🙂 I miss those days. 

    January 24, 2013 at 2:10 pm
    chocodog
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    I read children’s books and the Bible to my daughter when I nursed her.  I also felt like Becca, when it came to more children.  I just loved to look at my baby and relax. It seemed when I was older it was more relaxing to just enjoy the time to myself. 🙂  My husband built me a bird feeder outside the window so I could nurse and watch the birds.  Sometimes, I would put some peaceful music on.  I put it on low where I could just barely here it. Just enough to have a calming effect but not where I was singing it.  Most days I found myself just praying and not wanting to have anything on at all.  I think those were the best days.  

       When I stopped nursing those were the times I missed the most…  THe quiet ones with the L-rd.  🙂

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