July was another solid reading month. I read 9 books.
This first picture features my favorite books from the month. My overall favorite was "Greenwood." I really liked the narrative structure of the book - it starts in the future, moves backwards in time to 1908, and then forward again to the future. So it's modeled off of the rings of a tree. Trees feature prominently in the book so the narrative structure made sense!
Paul is very very into the Mo Willems books. We have probably checked out over 20 of his books from the library! He especially likes the pigeon books. Paul gets the concept of the library now and will ask me to request books from the library. I'm grateful that we live so close to our library as I go there pretty much weekly these days. I need to find another author to check out after we read all of Mo Willem's books. Any suggestions? Paul is starting to sound out some words so all of the reading seems to be paying off! We overheard him sounding out the world 'golf' on Phil's hat the other day so that was pretty cool to listen to!
Did you read anything great this month?
5 comments:
I had a WEAK reading month!! I really just read one book, the one I probably previously mentioned, The Lost City of the Monkey God. It was a non-fiction which meant a bit slower reading speed for me, but I also just had a very busy month with many obligations + lots of time with family/ people. My usual reading windows were eaten up many days. :) I did start the one you recommended, Admission, and am about half way done! Really like it so far!! I have The Lazy Genius Way lined up to read hopefully on vacation, and also The Glass Castle which has been on my list for years (but I finally requested). I'm way behind on my quarterly reading lists, but oh well. I'm hopeful that once school starts life might get a bit more "routine" again, which usually helps my reading life. ;)
I always love to see what you're reading. I still have to do my June book post, as well as July (that was a good month -- 10 books, which is a lot for me.) I do better in the summer!
Thanks for sharing your books! I love that Paul is in Mo Willems. He is super hard to follow because his books are just so good but also fun around that age is Pete the Cat and also the Jack book series by Mac Barnnet- one is called Jack at Bat.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't love Their Eyes Were Watching God!
My favorite July book was The Red Tent, which I squeaked in at the end of the month. :)
I got Greenwood from the library to check out! Mo Willems is great. Maybe try some Oliver Jeffers books? Stuck, The Day the Crayons Quit... Pete the Cat, Dragons Love Tacos, Don't pUSH THE bUTTON...
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