Favorite Color

MOM'S READING

This week we were suppose to choose books with our favorite color in the title.  It wasn't for lack of books, but I certainly wasn't in the mood for the books I had as potentials: The Red Tent by Anita Diamont, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke, and Red Clocks by Leni Zumas were just a handful of titles I was leaning towards.  I tried The Red Tent but it was too similar to a book I had recently read.  The Red Clocks only just came out so I knew I wouldn't have time to finish it this week, but I will put both on the maybe pile and see if I get any extra time for either, but I am wouldn't call it good chances.  Needless to say I kinda moved on to next week's prompt only intending to get a general idea of what the story would be about got sucked in and read over half of the book already!  Oops!  Oh well!  So I kinda cheated as you will see when I get to Read Alouds.

Popsugar Stats: 2/40 & 0/10  Newbery Stats: 2 points (goal is at least 15 points)

HERMIONE'S READING

Hermione's favorite color is silver so that automatically had me thinking The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.  She said she WILL read it.  But she has still been reading last week's book so I guess we are both struggling a little.


ARIANA'S READING

Ariana's favorite color is pink.  But she is not really doing this challenge and she is my reluctant reader.  She would much rather be playing games on her Kindle Fire or watching Youtube videos.  But she is reading something so that's good.  It has pink on the cover so there is that.







LUCY'S READING

Lucy's favorite color is yellow.  I successful found two super cute yellow books.






READ ALOUD

This is a tiny bit cheating but I am deciding to count this read aloud as my favorite color prompt.

See!  It has RED in the title- at least it is the series name!  Any way this is what we started reading and I was so not feeling my other choices this will have to be the one.  I am totally okay with that.  I love a good kid's mystery book. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mom's Reading Corner- brought to you by a tropical smoothie

Image
This week for the Popsugar Challenge I have finished Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller for the prompt "a book by or about a person with a disability".  I have wanted to read this book for awhile since I found it was an Oregon Battle of the Books books.  I have been a fan of The Miracle Worker and Helen Keller's life for a long time.  I love American Sign Language and was even privileged enough to work with a group of deaf children as a camp counselor for a week.  This was a great book from Annie Sullivan's perspective.  She does call Helen some names that would be greatly frowned upon today but knowing that this is from a different time and being sensitive to Annie's childhood I was not taken aback.  I enjoyed this book.  I was originally going to attempt two books this week but as soon as I started reading Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery I knew I wanted to savor that book.  Montgomery has such a way with words an...
Read more

The Great American Read: Day 49 War and Peace

Image
The unfortunate problem with doing a daily project such as this is that if you miss a few days they start piling up pretty fast and some books will not even get as much of a post as others especially incredibly long books such as War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.  This book is just about as long as The Count of Monte Cristo but seems a lot more intimidating almost solely because it is Russian.  My roommate in college read it and I should have given her more props for such an amazing accomplishment.  Any way this will be the second to last book I get to on The Great American Read List .  Here are a few things I watched to give me an idea about what I will be getting myself into in the far far future.  One of the lamest and biggest reasons I want to read War and Peace is because one of the translators is named Larissa.  It is too bad Larissa is such a popular Russian name and Russian literature is so daunting to me.  This is a library ...
Read more

The Great American Read: Day 14 The Da Vinci Code

Image
"Everyone loves a conspiracy."  Yes, I am part of that everyone.  I really do love conspiracies, secret societies, ghost stories, mysterious disappearances, and haunted houses...all that stuff.  I use to have a big series of Raintree books from the 1970s that dealt with all of those things.  I have searched in vain for a picture of these books and the closest I have come is this blog that only has the pictures of the creature books.  Still those books made a big impression on me.  I think about them whenever I want to think about leaving it all behind to go on a crazy adventure to discovery what is the secret of the Bermuda Triangle...and get famous....but honestly it is just a bunch of fun thoughts of a different life that I don't have.  No worries- I still just read about them and stay safe at home.  All that to say I have been reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.  It is fun stuff.  It is a little cheesy writing wise but I am to...
Read more