A Little Light Reading

I took Blake and Noah to the public library yesterday.  I said we could only go in for thirty minutes.  I should have known better!  I let them go to the youth section while I looked for some books for ME to read!
I made it upstairs about 20 minutes later.  These are the books I found for myself:

I discovered Kristin Hannah books a year or two ago and enjoy them.  I don't always agree with Jodi Picoult's take on various social issues, but I enjoy reading her books and thinking about the topics she pursues.  Mary Kay Andrews (and Dorothea Benton Frank) are southern humor set in some of my favorite places!  Her books are a  definite pool/beach read! I LOVE biographies and have since I was young.  I checked out Ronald Reagan's autobiography.  Then I stumbled on this book about Henry Clay by one of my FAVORITE college professors, Dr. Lindsey Apple!  I took a few extra history courses in college just to be in his classes!

I also have five or six books waiting for me on my Kindle - three are by Francis Chan (Crazy Love) and one is by Dr. Kevin Leman (Smart Women Know How to Say No).  I hope to tackle some of those in the coming weeks, too!

Here is the stack of books Blake checked out (Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Spy Technologies, Lego Building plus some chapter books).  As of tonight, he has already read through two of them!

Here is Noah's stack of books.  He has a tendency to lean towards checking out DVDs at the library.  I told him he couldn't look at the movies until he had at least five books.  When I made it upstairs, he already had 6 books and was on the computer looking for more.  I let him check out two DVDs.  He is halfway through one book already!

I picked up 6 or 7 books for Andy by authors we have never read.  I wanted to push outside of our normal Curious George, Clifford, Franklin and Sweet Pickles books.  I also picked up two DVDs for him!  He was thrilled with what I got and we've already read all but one of his books (a couple have been read multiple times).










Look at Jake - we've already turned him onto books, too!









Don't forget summer reading programs start soon at the local public libraries.  We usually participate in some fashion each summer!