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What’s on Your Nightstand?

November25
5 Minutes For Books
5 Min­utes For Books

It’s time for my favorite car­ni­val! It’s the 5 Min­utes for Books monthly “What’s on Your Night­stand?” car­ni­val. Yay!

This is so hard for me. I have so many books I want to read. I have told my hus­band sev­eral times recently that there are just too many books and too lit­tle time. Last month, I spent most of my read­ing time read­ing the Twi­light series by Stephe­nie Meyer. It was okay. Yes, that was a lot of time to allo­cate to some­thing that is just okay. Gen­er­ally, I’m not the type of per­son who sticks with some­thing and fol­lows it through if I start to lose inter­est, so I decided that I was going to read all 4 books no mat­ter what. Also, I was curi­ous. I liked some of the char­ac­ters, and I liked the first book quite a bit, so I wanted to see how she wrapped it up. It seemed to me like there was a LOT of room for another book in the series and that it wasn’t really wrapped up. I know the movie just came out, but I don’t go to movies so I most likely won’t be see­ing it for quite some time if at all.

This month, I’m back to my pile of books from Book­Mooch and Paper­back­Swap. I’m also think­ing a lot about home­school, par­ent­ing, and breast­feed­ing tod­dlers, so maybe I’ll read some of those types of books, too.

Do you have any home­school­ing, par­ent­ing or breast­feed­ing books you’d recommend?

posted under Book Swap, Fun, Reading
4 Comments to

“What’s on Your Nightstand?”

  1. On November 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pm Shannon Says:

    I am wait­ing on my new Stephen King book. For some rea­son read­ing hor­ror books before bed is my thing. Always enjoyed it and never have bad dreams from it, even when I was a kid.

    Right now its a lit­tle too busy with finals loom­ing to read at night. Usu­ally I am asleep before my head is even halfway to the pil­low, assum­ing the chil­dren allow it.

    I will check for more com­ments on breast­feed­ing books because soon Pete’s gonna go crazy because Ivy won’t take a bot­tle while I gone at class…she wouldn’t even take it from me when I got home. Hope­fully one of the books sug­gested will help me out.

  2. On November 25th, 2008 at 7:26 pm Heather @ Not a DIY Life Says:

    I’m read­ing, or try­ing to read, a few mar­riage books right. It’s hard for me to get a book read these days. Lady­bug gets up when I do, takes a short nap. And by the time she goes to bed, I’m exhausted.

    Any­way, I stopped by to tag you for a book meme. Per­fect! Stop by my blog for details.

  3. On November 25th, 2008 at 11:58 pm Samara @ Through The Eyes of The Creator Says:

    I was just dis­cussing the Twi­light series with some friends today. One of them had just gone to the movie and was dis­cussing it with some­one that had read the book. The over­all con­cen­sus was that if you liked the movie, you’d love the book…so the movie must be good. But I don’t watch movies so it doesn’t mat­ter to me. Per­son­ally, I never got into the whole vam­pire thing so I don’t know if I’d like them but my curios­ity is piqued.
    Boys? Girls? For boys, which I have 4 of, I would rec­om­mend Bring­ing Up Boys — James Dob­son, hands down. It is the best…chock full of good­ies. Sorry, can’t help you in the girl depart­ment. LOL
    I read a really good book dur­ing my last preg­nancy (almost 5 yrs ago)…think it was a Girlfriend’s Guide.…not sure. But it had good breast­feed­ing info. I’ll pass on the info IF i can remem­ber it.
    Good Luck!

  4. On November 26th, 2008 at 7:44 pm Ali Says:

    Have you read Moth­er­ing Your Nurs­ing Tod­dler? It’s been a long time since I my kids were tod­dlers but I remem­ber it being really helpful.

    Home­school­ing books: My favorite was Fam­ily Mat­ters: Why Home­school­ing Makes Sense by David Guter­son. That’s the book that clinched it for my hus­band and me, that we were homeschooling.

    Par­ent­ing books: Play­ful Par­ent­ing by Leonard Cohen, Tears and Tantrums by Aletha Solter, and Rais­ing Boys by Steve Biddulph.

    Oops, I sort of barged in and started toss­ing books around with­out intro­duc­ing myself, how gauche of me. Hi. I’m Ali from Wor­ducopia, home­school­ing mom of 2 boys, now 8 and 11.

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