6 Books I’m Currently Reading
Summer reading comes and goes for me – sometimes I’m reading a book almost every day and then I’ll go a week or two and hardly get through a page.
I stayed up late this weekend finishing a book and it just felt so good to really be IN a book.
Of course, I’m always listening to audiobooks, both on my own and with my girls, plus reading aloud to them.
Here are six books I’m currently reading!
6 Books I’m Currently Reading
The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
Okay, I actually just finished this one over the weekend, but it was so good I can’t leave it off this list. I mean, an organizing book might not be YOUR idea of a good time, but I loved every page. It was laugh-out-loud funny, full of inspiration, and I have organized about seven drawers, cupboards and closet since then. Now I just need better handwriting so I can label everything.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
I’m listening to this audiobook and it’s FANTASTIC. I feel like every person probably needs this book, whether they’re parenting children or trying to figure out what to do with their own lives. I keep telling Bart “you will LOVE this book.”
The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
This is the August book for the Everyday Reading Book Club (which, I’m not hosting during the summer because. . . .too many children around) and it’s just a summer delight to dive into a new Sarah Dessen book.
Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah Clarkson
My dear friend Becky, who ran the bookclub I belonged to in Arizona sent me multiple texts about her profound love from this book, and since Becky is maybe the single most serious reader I know, I immediately picked it up at the library.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
This is our current car listen and my girls are all SO INTO IT. It’s also just crazy to imagine a world where these little girls have never been to a store or seen a town. My family visited Pepin, Wisconsin and the rebuilt Little House (the woods are mostly gone now) when I was 6 and I still remember it really clearly.
B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
When Ella was at Grancie Camp last week, we paused our current read aloud and I started this one with the littler girls. And they just LOVE it. It’s one of my favorite old-fashioned books, so sweet and charming (Star’s name actually comes from the little sister that is born in later books). If you haven’t read this series, I highly recommend you do – it’s one of the books on this list of read-alouds for preschoolers and kindergarteners!
What are you reading right now? I’d love to hear!
The Betsy books were my favorites growing up! Do you happen to know where you can buy the whole collection…but in the old style, not the current one?
Hmm, I don’t! But if you find out, let me know – I love those old styles!
Oh, gosh, you made my heart give a leap. It’s not true, but it’s very kind of you to think so.
I hope you loved it as much as I did! I found it so inspiring.
I LOVED the Betsy book as a young girl but I never thought about reading them to my son. I know, there aren’t boy books and girl books, it just never occurred to me! And he likes Bink & Gollie a lot so I think he’d be interested in Betsy and Star!
My favorite book so far this summer is The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni. About a boy born with ocular albinism (red eyes). He is teased and shunned by other kids until he befriends the one African American boy in his school. He does go on to live an extraordinary life!
Current reading: I just finished Little House on the Prairie with my 5-year-old, and she wants more, so I guess Plum Creek is next. I’ll pick up that audiobook before our next road trip!
For me: I just read The Kiss Quotient, which was FANTASTIC (heads up for explicit bedroom times, but they’re well-done and advance plot and characterization). Next up is a PILE of YA fantasy (beach reads!). I’ve got an ANTHONY Doerr book waiting for me before my September book club meeting, but, while he writes GORGEOUS prose, he is not a beach-book writer.
I just started The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon and it is fantastic! Right in the same vein as The Read Aloud Family—you would love it!