Thursday
Jun072007
Hey, hey it's my birthday!
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 10:55AM Woohoo! Feeling pretty dang good about life right now and am celebrating my birthday (and Mother's Day) by going to CKU, so no big doings going on today. I'm wanting to do something fun, though, so how about a little RAK (random act of kindness)? I have a lovely "All About Me" album kit (the ones put out by CK...comes with the album and all the "stuff" and instructions) up for grabs! Just post here and tell me the name of a good book...we signed up for the library's summer reading program yesterday and I'm always on the lookout for good reads, both for myself and the boys. :)
I'll have one of the boys draw a name from the posts tomorrow around noon!
Reader Comments (33)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!!!!!
Some of my favourites are: The Poisonwood Bible, Widow for One Year, anything by Maeve Binchy. Some of my other favourite authors are Timothy Findley, and John Irving.
Aaaaah, love reading *smiles*
Happy Birthday!!!
I love the book The Color of Water by James McBride. It was an Oprah book years ago, but I just had a chance to read it a few months ago. My students (no matter what their age, 5-12) love any of the picture books bt Robert Munsch such as Jonathan Cleaned up - Then he Heard a Sound or 40 Below.
Heather :)
Happy Birthday Amanda! Check out the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. It was my favorite book as a kid and I go back and read it all the time. It has very clever play-on-words things throughout it, so it's perfect for any age!
Hi Amanda...Happy Birthday! I have two books to recommend (well, actually, I could name more...I'm kind of a book nut):
- The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
- Finding Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Have a great week and a wonderful birthday!
amanda, happy bday to you! and i hope that you DID celebrate w/cake AND ice-cream. cheers to you! reading, my FAV love (even before scrapbooking) - i mostly read real-life works, travel and strangely i love mountaineering books! on a different subject: one of my fav books is: tuesdays with morrie. hugs, rach
Happy Birthday!!!
Right now I'm reading "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk. Very good so far.
Just finished "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Piccoult. Very good.
"My Sister's Keeper" By Jodi Piccoult is fantastic! I would definitely recommend this one!
Happy Reading this summer!!
Christie
Here are three of my latest and greatest adult reads:
"The Road", by Cormac McCarthy
"Blind your ponies" and "Amos" both of these are by Stanley Gordon West
For kids, my boy's always loved: 'Heh little ant" by Phillip and Hanna Hoose When they were younger.
and a great book to read to kids of any age for the summer would be: "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini. I'm a mom of boy's but my niece loved these also.
Happy birthday, Amanda. Today's blog really got a lot of responses! I think the boys might be ready for The Chronicles of Narnia -- at least Noah and Asher. We started reading them to Nathan when he was six. nan
Happy Birthday! I am a mother of 2 boys! I can so relate to taking so many more pics of the baby... especially since the older is rolling eyes or looking away...
some of our favorite books... our tree named steve, click clack moo, what snowmen do at night, my lucky day, (older ds is suggesting the complete book of dinosaurs)
Happy Birthday, lady!
I have to put my vote in for my favorite Children's books....OWL BABIES (eeep, I forget the author) is a real fave in this house, as is LITTLE PEA by Amy Krause Rosenthal, who also wrote a favorite of mine, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. So fun.
Happy Birthday, Amanda. I agree with several people who recommended The Secret Life of Bees. It's one of my favs. For the kids I love the Tacky the Penguin books by Helen Lester. Kati
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett is beautiful and different but not too abstruse.
Happy birthday! thanks for all of your contributions on the CKMB, I am happy to see some CK staff on there.
books...
For you, My favorite book is "your personality tree" by florence littaurer (I am not sure about the spelling of the last name)
for the kiddos...
tikki tikki tembo
cloudy with a chance of meatballs
I knew you could
all of these are my kids favorites!
have a great day!
~liz CKMB hickschick