What We’re Reading

I’m constantly asking my boys to ask their friends what they’re reading or what series of books they’ve read and loved.  ’Cause here’s the thing, I have three boys.  And I’m a girl.  So it turns out that while some of our reading genres overlap, many don’t.

I think back to my glory days of Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins,  to Nancy Drew, and to Margaret writing letters to God.  Turns out the boys aren’t into these so much.  Go figure.

I’m happy to report that we can agree on all things Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, on Charlotte and her web, on Tales of Desperaux, on chronicles in Narnia and on a certain boy with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead.

It’s only happened in the past few years that we enjoy reading many of the same books.  Sometimes my oldest munchkin and I battle it out over who gets a book and when.  I tried to make a deal with him,  he could have it in bed first and then I get to steal when I go to bed but it turns out that when he’s in a good book he can stay awake longer than I can so I got the short end of the deal on The Hobbit.  He’s getting his reading on while I wait.

All of that to say, I don’t always know what new books to read with and to my children and which to suggest they read on their own.  I don’t know some of the new series that exist and I’ve found that many of the popular ones that grades 2-5′s are reading I don’t really like.  Like, at all.  (Geronimo Stilton  and that Wimpy Kid drive me bonkers!  They’re currently banned reading in our home.)  So I thought it would be nice to have a place to share what we’re all reading in case you ever find yourself in the same sorta pickle that I’m in and  you need some suggestions, but also to open it up for you, lovely readers, to share with me some things that my fam simply must read!

So here it is – this is what The Fasts are currently reading:

Papa Fast:  

Know Why You Believe by Paul Little

Mama Fast:  (that’s me!)

My first book of 2012 was Small Town, Big Miracle by Bishop W.C. Martin.  An amazing story of adoption, if you have a heart for adopting read this.  It will open your heart in a new way and inspire you beyond what you may ever have fathomed.

So I’m onto my second book which I’m cracking tonight (oh sweet bliss!)  The Meaning of Marriage – Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Timothy Keller. Can. Not. Wait!!

12 year old Fast:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien   

This is his first foray into the realm that is Tolkien and so far he is loving it.  I think he’ll have his reading cut out for him for the next while with the Lord of the Rings Series after this one.

10 year old Fast:

The 39 Clues Series by Rick Riordan.

Not my cuppa tea (at all!) but he loves ‘em so I’m letting him go for it.

8 year old Fast:

 Will, God’s Might Warrior and part 2 The Mystery of Macgillicudy’s Gold by Sheila Walsh are current story book faves.  These are great bedtime read aloud books for little boys!

In novel form, he just  discovered the “My Life as a…” series so he’s in the middle of his first one.  My Life as a Skysurfing Skateboarder by Bill Myers.  (I would have picked the “My Life as a Smashed Burrito with extra hot sauce” one if it was up to me, but alas, it wasn’t.)

What are the people in your house currently reading?  I’d love to know…

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