I still recall my book report on Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing (I was in 2nd). That is probably my favorite book of Blume.

jct—it would probably be a quick read (more junior than his level) but your son might like Across Five Aprils if he liked the ones you mentioned. It’s about a farm boy (early teens) in Kansas (I think) during the Civil War…much different perspective of the war than what you normally hear in the South. That is another book I ended up rereading as an adult….

Narnia series has been re-read too.

I see re-reading a book like re-reading the Bible….I bring a new me to it each time, therefore I see something different in a familiar story.

I can’t remember a time without books. I always have two or three books around the house – one in the family room, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen – that I’m reading or re-reading at any given time. When my kids were small, I was like a madwoman in the children’s book department. One friend came over and, taking in the number of books strewn around, dryly commented, “Have you ever heard of a thing called the ‘library’? You go, you borrow books, and then you take them back!” “Take them BACK?!?! NOOOOO!!!” I’m not acquisitive on jewelry, clothes, purses, shoes, etc. — but no book is safe from me. Luckily, I married another bookworm, so we spend many happy hours on the deck catching rays and reading, taking turns refilling the lemonade or wine. My daughter reads quite a bit, too, but my son doesn’t read much for recreation these days, because his college major is so reading-intensive.

Does anyone here re-read a lot? I have friends who ask me what the point of re-reading a book is, since you already know how it’s going to end. But I have many books I have read multiple times – don’t even ask me how many times I’ve re-read Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” series, it’s a sure sign of a misspent youth (and explains the messiness of my house!)

It seems that everyone on this blog loves to read. Maybe that is why we hang out in a blog.

My son HATES to read but I have found two books that he really liked in the past two years. The Red Badge of Courage and To Kill a Mockingbird. Lately, he has been ‘hiding’ in his room reading books. Even though he just turned 18, it warmed my heart to see him reading a book without any encouragement.

To all you reader moms, have faith. They may not begin to read until they are older like my son. Just keep the books around the house. They may surprise you later on.

I couldn’t get into Twilight. I read almost all of the first book, but it just didn’t do it for me. However, it made my oldest niece read, she hates to read. She read the entire Twilight series in two weeks. Now the younger niece is reading it, and she is on the second book.

It does my heart good to hear about kids reading. I read to my daughter every single night when she was little. When the power would go out with the storms, we would light candles and I would read to her by candle light. We did that not too long ago, but I read 17 Magazine to her. We couldn’t find anything else so I read a couple of articles out loud. HA HA too funny…