Saturday Book Post

This week feels as though it has had less time in it for reading, but Hypatia has discovered a new way to multitask - she wants me to come into the bathroom while she's taking her bubble bath and sit on the toilet and read to her. She splashes about and listens.

I've started reading a new chapter book to her, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, and she is loving the book. This is truly the first book without illustrations that she has wanted to have read to her, and the subject matter and writing are not "fairy tale style" if you know what I mean by that, so I think this book marks a new chapter for our read alouds (pardon the pun). So far I really like this book also, and would recommend it. There is Emmy, a girl who can't seem to be good enough to earn anyone's love or attention, and the classroom Rat, who for some reason Emmy can hear talking .... and what is Emmy's nanny doing with all these "herbal concoctions"?

We haven't had any time for picture books or other reading this week!

But Carbon is on to book 2 of The Warriors series: Fire and Ice. Now Firepaw has become Fireheart ("paw" names mean the cat is an apprentice warrior, and "heart" means a full warrior in the clan), but there is still trouble to sort out and adventures to be had.

I am still working on Models of Religious Education, but I'm also reading Good Enough is the New Perfect. The authors, two mothers of young children, interviewed hundreds of other mothers about work/life balance, and wrote this book about how our worst enemy may actually be our own drive to be perfect at Everything At Once, All the Time.