I love books. I have loved books since I was a child. I devoured every book I owned repeatedly! I borrowed books from the library and remember loving reading biographies especially about girls (Louisa May Alcott, Pochantos, Virginia Dare). I read everywhere! While I was walking to the bus stop, drying my hair, on the bus, and of course in nice comfy chairs! 

In my senior year in high school, we had a teacher who wanted us to keep a reading log of all the books we had read. Her goal was for us to read 20 during the year. I read over 150!  At this time gothic romances, Stephen King, Dean Koontz were my favorite reading fare, but she also introduced me to Vonnegut, Hardy, Steinbeck, Fielding and Faulkner.

My love for reading continues today, though my time is much less. I can't stop picking up books and currently have probably 100 in a stack waiting patiently for me to read them.  But between selling on Ebay (see previous post), homeschooling, household running and blogging, book reading doesn't get done near as much.  Of course, I do lots of reading of blogs!  And every night, I read to the kids for an hour (that doesn't count any reading we do during the day from VA history book or a health book we are currently reading).

The Game Master (9) still enjoys listening to me read. We go to the library and they pick out the books we read at night. It was picture books mostly for Jungle Princess and chapter books for Game Master(Wrinkle in Time, Indian in the Cupboard, The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe). Right now we are reading animal books (JP) and books about ancient civilizations (GM). So I still get to learn and read.

We are also enjoying listening to audio books right now.  We have been borrowing Hank The Cowdog tapes from the library. This really helps the time go by when we are in the car (and keeps things pretty peaceable too).  For Easter, the children got the complete set of The Chronicles of Narnia (Dramatized by Focus on the Family Radio), and three from the Easter Bunny...Peter Pan, Robin Hood, and Sherlock Holmes (I think the Easter Bunny may have found these at a local Dollar Tree as I have seen them there). 

So with all of this book loving going on, teaching reading is a high priority here. But this post is getting too long, so I will put that in the next one.