Comments on: The family book blog

By: Cathy Davis

Cathy Davis — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:34:01 +0000

I have recently read Life is more beautiful.. and must say it is a wonderful book. Kudos to good writing and reading….

By: DGLM

DGLM — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:56:02 +0000

You're right anonymous, this is Jessica's (my) post, and I didn't actually mean to be anonymous (though you can generally pick me out for my long-windedness). I love, love, love hearing what people are reading, so keep the booklists coming!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:58:21 +0000

"Still trying to figure out who wrote the above blogpost. Miriam?"

Jessica, I think.

By: Michael G-G

Michael G-G — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:14:20 +0000

We are not merely a family. We are a herd of bibliovores, grazing across the savannah. My wife, who reads the most pages per year, is ploughing through Elizabeth Eslami's Bone Worship. My 13-year-old son is alternating Something Wicked This Way Comes with Uncle John's Monumental Bathroom Reader. (Go figure!)The to-be-seven-tomorrow son just finished Matilda and is starting on the Wizard of Oz.

Like the blogwriter, I too just returned from the library with enough text to sate the three-year-old. Tonight we read: Anita Lobel's Nini Here and There;Debi Gliori's Stormy Weather; Claire Hawcock's Mine, All Mine; Mo Willem's Let's Say Hi to Friends Who Fly; Darren Farrell's Doug-Dennis and the Flyaway Fib; and we topped it off with a couple of bed-time Thomas books.

And what is it with Ender's Game? I'm reading it along with Anonymous' husband and I've seen it mentioned a couple of times this week on other blogs. An Ender zeitgeist?

Still trying to figure out who wrote the above blogpost. Miriam? Whoever it was, it was hugely enjoyable--and now I have to figure out how to make chicken fesenjoon...

By: Yat-Yee

Yat-Yee — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:41:30 +0000

My husband, who doesn't read fiction, is reading Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. He says the author sounds like a teacher and makes the story fascinating and knows how to anticipate questions.

My daughter is reading HP Goblet of Fire. My son is reading Grossology and the Adventure of Tom Sawyer, a simplified version.

I am reading Christopher Moore's Lamb and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, recommended by Jim (to another blog reader) in his recent post.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:26:38 +0000

I too am a fan of all things fairytale that don't involve characters being offed. Yet somehow 'The Little Match Girl' is my favourite story. *ponders in confusion*

At the moment, my husband is rereading Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game', I'm rereading a collection of Hans Christian Andersen (yes, apparently in spite of my above statement, I'm absorbed in a writer who loves tragedy), and my toddlers have just begun to read, but love to hear me read Calvin and Hobbes comics to them.

A strange, eclectic mix, but I guess that's what families are!