Adventures With Books

Because life is full of adventures

Category: Books

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Up and Down By Oliver Jeffers

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On December 10, 2018

In Books, Children Book Review, Reviews

Every week  I try to get new books when I take my three younger children to the library for story time. This is a set time that we go each week as long as we are feeling well and in town. I feel it is good for them to be able to learn to sit and listen to books read by other people and it exposes them to other children as well.

This last week we picked up some books as usual and in them I had found a book with a boy and a penguin on the cover that kind of reminded me of a video that the children had watched a few times about a boy who returns a penguin down to Antarctica, so I picked it up. It happens that this book was written by the author of the other story and it is called Lost and Found. As I do not recall reading the actual book I hope that the video is word for word from the book and I would recommend it. I will have to look this week for the book and take a look at it myself.

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Storm Glass By Jeff Wheeler Harbinger Book 1

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On December 5, 2018

In Books, Reviews

I recently listened to this book through Amazon Kindle. While I a lot of the time have a hard time listening to someone read me a book that I am not able to read along with, because I find that my mind will start to wander more often than if I was following the reader, I did still enjoy listening to the book. There were quite a few times that I found my mind wandering, but luckily when that happens you can just have the book rewind to about where you stopped paying attention. I do enjoy being able to read a book myself, but when I am unable to for various reasons, having the opportunity to listen to it is a great way to get into books.

Books are always good to have on hand for when you feel the need for a good adventure without having to go anywhere.

As for this book, it was well written. I would have to say that the beginning of the book was a little hard for me to get into, but as I went along in it the story became more enjoyable.  I enjoyed the story and the fact that it went between the lives of two main characters Cettie Pratt and Sera Fitzempress, the different things that they were going through in their lives and the way they both lived. While everyone has a hard time in life this story shows the way that even those from different social circles and stages of life have to overcome their hardships, which can sometimes even be the same. It shows what someone usually goes through when their circumstances change, as well as the way that people view and treat them when this happens.

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The 5 Love Languages of Children By Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, MD

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On December 4, 2018

In Books, Reviews

In my lifetime I have read a lot, mostly of fiction variety, except for school books and a few books about writing stories. The reason I have read mostly fiction is because a lot of the non-fiction just does not keep my interest as much as a fictional work does. Now you may be expecting me to say that The 5 Love Languages of Children is an exception to this, but that was not the case at all.

While I did enjoy reading this book and feel that it has a lot of good information, but between it being a non-fiction work and being a mother of four children under the age of six it took me about four months to get through the whole thing. For myself that is a very long time, but I wanted to read this book to make sure I am showing my children love in all the ways that they need as well as make sure they can do the same throughout their lives.

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Welcome to My Blog

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On November 28, 2018

In Books, Family Adventures, Writing

This blog is about the things that I love the most. Those being: having a fun time with my children and other family members,  as well as reading books and working on writing my own works.

I enjoy taking time to teach my children the things they will need to succeed in life, all while trying to have as much fun as we possibly can. We take family trips to visit family we have throughout the United States. We have been moving around quite a bit the last five years and learning to settle into a new environment each time we have done so. While we never really know what the future holds for us as long as we are together as a family we can have fun and live life to its fullest.

I want to bring my love of books to anyone out there that is looking for new books to read. I am always teaching my children to love to read books and comics. We go to the library most weeks and check out new books to read at home. As we explore those books I would like to be able to let others know about them as well. With all the moving around I have been doing in life, especially in the last five years with my family, I have not been reading as much as I used to. For one of the short times we were living with my parents I was able to join my Mom with going to her book group, but since I am no longer there I have not been able to find a book group I am interested in joining and so with starting this blog I thought I could create an online book group that could be joined from anywhere you are, whenever there is time to do so. While I will be doing reviews of books I have never liked the way that people go about giving stars to the things that they like and what not and so I have decided not to use the star system. 

While I do not feel that I have as much time to dedicate to writing as I use to, I still enjoy it. At this time I have been trying to get back into my writing and since I feel like there is strain to it I have been searching ways to get out of this stuck position in writing and would love to share what I have found and what I have gotten to work for me.

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