Summer Reading

June 7 is the beginning of the official beginning of the summer reading season! While it is always reading season at our house (with upwards of 60+ books checked out from the library at any one time...), I think summer reading is a bit more light hearted or fun or not-so-intellectual. Whatever the reading is, I do think some of my happiest memories of my childhood are of the books I read from the Little House Series, biographies of Joan of Arc and Louis Braille, and my very favorite, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler. 

Here's what we're reading at our house: 

In the kitchen-

Lyv is currently loving a gift from Auntie B (Fyo loves to listen in too)

Fyo in his nighttime reading with Kent has started reading the longer chapter style books. They started with The Little Prince and then they read Charlotte's Web. Now it's Pooh's turn. 

Fyo and Kent read two other picture books from the usual suspects (Sheep in a Jeep, Go Dog Go, Little Bear, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, etc.) then they read a chapter from Pooh. 

On Kent's night table: 

(He likes the longer books.) 

And for nonfiction: 

And on mine: 

I got excited that Hilary Mantel's new book had come out. Kent acted like he had no idea what I was talking about. Silly me. He had already ordered it for me - but when it came he made it clear that if I didn't start reading it immediately, he would. 

And for nonfiction (as always, geeking out with the neuroscience...)

Thankfully, summer is just getting started; we have a long list of books to delve into, Colin Meloy's Wildwood for Fyo, Lyv (like her mother) finds any book irrestible and is happy to go through any stack just as long as they're books. I've suggested Sophie's Choice for Kent along with Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (he's such a good sport reading what I give him) while I have Class Matters from the New York Times and Ann Fessler's The Girls Who Went Away, and well, the stack is just too tall to list...