What we are reading

I'm not reading Pride and Prejudice to the children, in case you were wondering.  I am reading it for myself.  Did I tell you this wonderful discovery I've made which makes me wish I had all this technology available to me when the girls were little?  I can download classics for free on my iPhone to the iBooks application.  Plus, I can download classic audio readings to the audiobooks application.  So, when I have a chance to snatch a few minutes to myself to read I do, but in those events where I don't have time to snatch a few minutes to read because my hands are full or too busy, I can listen to the book.  Or if I'm simply too lazy at the end of the day to force my eyes to read and my brain to process, I can lay in my bed, and listen.  Ahh...bliss!  Where was this when I had babies with reflux who needed to be held in the middle of the night?

After some consideration we started The Magician's Nephew instead of the more popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  I thought about this, but when faced with the decision, I started "Nephew" because I hope to read all of the books in order to the kids at a reasonably brisk pace.  If I had to choose only one, with the hopes that the kids would pick up the series themselves at a later time (which I considered), I would have picked The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  So far we are all enjoying it.  And I guess the benefit of 2 girls losing their electronics privileges is that they can now spend their evening tv time listening to me read. 

The Strawberry Girl is a lovely book that we are almost done with.  I haven't told Becks that there is a sequel as she often becomes quiet heartbroken when we finish a book.  You should have witnessed the distress at the end of The Boxcar Children (which we later found out there are bunches and bunches of those).  Of course the high joy of finding out there is nearly a whole shelf of BC at the library was completely adorable. 

And the Night Sky... Its our Science text.  Written before the reclassification of Pluto, we'll learn the 9 planets and then throw a quick asterix in the mix.  Otherwise a great book that makes our Science lessons something to look forward to.

So that in a nutshell is what we are reading.