What’s on my day in musicTodays books are all chapter books geared more towards 5 – 10 year olds or when your child can remember what was read to them the day before and can be excited about what is going to happen next.
1) The first series is the Magic Tree House series:
Travel through time with brother and sister Jack and [...]
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Just finished reading To kill a Mocking Bird ( This link is phenomenal) by Harper Lee .
This book is great! It’s a story that preludes the civil rights movement as told by a 7 year old girl ( Scout) in the span of 2 years of her life.
What I find so fascinating about the book is how the [...]
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I just finished reading Any Place I Hang My Hat By Susan Isaacs.
It’s a story about a woman called Amy Lincoln who works as a journalist. She was abandoned by both parents at a very young age, her mother went to the store and never came back and her father was in and out of jail for most [...]
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I LOVE children’s books. Even before I had my little 7aki I was drawn to these books and I loved reading them.
Here are some of my favorite children’s books in no particular order.
They are for different ages, from toddler to Teenager.
1) Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.
Such a cute book where [...]
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas book is most probably the most sad book I’ve ever read. It is such an amazing book by the Irish Author John Boyne.
It talks about a nine year old German boy called Bruno who had to move from Berlin to a place called “Out – With” (Known to adults [...]
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I just finished reading Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella.
Lexi has a car accident which erases 3 years from her memory. She wakes up in the hospital room to find out that she is married, has a successful career and looks hot.
A fun and easy read.
Currently reading: The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas by John [...]
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I just finished reading “The Undomestic Goddess ” and “Can You Keep a secret” by Sophie Kinsella.
The first is about a high profile lawyer who gets mistaken for a house keeper and the second is about a woman who gives away all her secrets to a stranger which comes back and bites her in the butt.
Both [...]
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Audio books!
As you all know I have been a bit preoccupied and my hands have been a bit tied up.
As I felt my brain shrinking from all the things I was not doing ( like say working and reading) I went RUNNING to my public library to try and solve the shrinkage problem. As I [...]
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I just finished reading Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder.
This book is sooooo insightful and so amazing it will blow your mind away.
It’s like Philosophy for dummies, gives you the ideas behind each school of thought and explains it quite well.
It’s starts with the Garden of Eden, the natural [...]
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How do I begin with this one?
Today I just finished reading Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin and it was the most inspiring REAL story I have ever read about a man educating the girls and boys of Pakistan and Afghanistan one village at a time.
Greg Mortenson dreamt of [...]
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I recently finished reading She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
It’s a story about a pre-teen who struggles to deal with her family falling apart, getting raped at the tender age of thirteen and a multitude of so many other issues that make her life crazy or better yet make her go crazy
She deals with [...]
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Have you ever read a book that was sooooooo good you couldn’t stop reading but you didn’t want to keep reading because you are worried it’s going to end?
This is how I felt while I was reading the book Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet . I absolulty LOVED it. all 950+ pages of [...]
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This book is the closest thing to a movie thriller. You are at the edge of your seat from the first word you read until the absolute last one.
Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a really good read. Some might be intimidated by the 500 + pages but it is really a [...]
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The book A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon is Brilliant!
I decided that from now on every book written by this Author will be read and the decision is final.
He has this talent of describing everything so well that you actually feel you are in the characters heads , you feel what they feel and you [...]
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From the book cover:
In their youths, Floerntino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. when Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs – yet he reserves his heart for [...]
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