Skip to main content

On MY bookshelf!

Must… keep… mommy… brain… alive!!!

Three books I started on Shabbos and actually FINISHED, for a change!

image Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmerby Novella Carpenter.  Yes, that is her real name.  ALMOST (almost!  not quite!) made me want to move down to Oakland (spring starts in FEBRUARY???) and raise hogs on a vacant lot.

This was my “weighty” reading selection, and I really enjoyed it.

AND then there was…

image I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorcedby Nujood Ali.  What’s not to like about this book?  It’s short and if you disagree with her that means you agree with marrying and beating 9-year-old girls.  So, indeed, not the most controversial book I’ve ever read.  Or the most fascinating.  It is a serviceable book that tells you all the things you thought it would from the start, in a compact, 188-page package.

BONUS!

image Yup, it's TEEN fiction! Little Darlingsby Jacqueline Wilson.  I’ve had kids for 16 years and never read a single one of her books (she’s the grande dame of British kids’ lit – way before J.K. Rowling came along).  I think the kids have read ALL her books… I think I’ll stick with just this one.

I’m always ashamed to post these “bookshelf” updates in case there’s nothing that DEEP on the reading list.

Maybe it’s because I have a cold, or maybe I’ve just decided that reading is reading, even if it IS the grown-up equivalent of Charlotte Mason’s “twaddle,” and not be afraid to share my reading selections with the entire world!

Is it better to take on LESS challenging books and actually get all the way through them, or better to reach a bit and fall flat on my face, literarily speaking???

And also… any recommendations for what I should read next?

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

I love your comments!

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You,...
27 comments
Read more

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful....
10 comments
Read more

What do we tell our kids about Chabad and “Yechi”?

If I start by saying I really like Chabad, and adore the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, z"l, well... maybe you already know where I'm headed. Naomi Rivka has been asking lately what I think about Chabad.  She asks, in part, because she already knows how I feel.  She already knows I’m bothered, though to her, it’s mostly about “liking” and “not liking.”  I wish things were that simple. Our little neighbourhood in Israel has a significant Chabad presence, and Chabad conducts fairly significant outreach within the community.  Which sounds nice until you realize that this is a religious neighbourhood, closed on Shabbos, where some huge percentage of people are shomer mitzvos.  Sure, it’s mostly religious Zionist, and there are a range of observances, for sure, but we’re pretty much all religious here in some way or another. So at that point, this isn’t outreach but inreach .  Convincing people who are religious to be… what? A lot of Chabad’s efforts here are focused o...
Post a Comment
Read more