Kell's 2013 Reading Log

[chaliepud]

I read them a couple of years ago with my daughter, it had been at least 25 years since I'd read them before! I was surprised at how much I remembered but they are now very old fashioned, we both enjoyed reading them though!

[Janet]

I reread them a few years ago too.    Dated, but still enjoyable as a revisit. 

[Kell]

I'd like to re-read the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder too. I must have read them all about 20 times each when I was a kid - I loved them!

[Janet]

I read the first one a couple of years ago.   It wasn't like I imagined (not being set in Walnut Grove) but I did enjoy it and I'd like to read some more in the future. 

[Kidsmum]

I loved watching The Little House on The Prairie when it was on TV so when i saw the books in a charity shop i bought them for my youngest daughter but she wasn't that enthusiastic about reading them but i plan to get round to reading them at some point just for the nostalgia trip 

[Inver]

I'd like to re-read the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder too. I must have read them all about 20 times each when I was a kid - I loved them!

 

I so wish i had kept all mine Kell....like you I probably would have gotten around to reading them all again now.

I loved watching The Little House on The Prairie when it was on TV so when i saw the books in a charity shop i bought them for my youngest daughter but she wasn't that enthusiastic about reading them but i plan to get round to reading them at some point just for the nostalgia trip 

I watched and loved  them too.

[Kell]

I really wish I'd kept my Malory Towers and Little House boos now - I donated them many years ago to a jumble sale or something. I remember swithering over doing it too. *facepalm*

 

I used to watch Little House on the Prairie every Sunday (or The Waltons when they switched over - it was always one or the other!), and even now, if I come across an episode when I'm channel hopping, I get completely overcome with nostalgia. It just totally takes me back to my childhood when I always wished I could experience living that way. I'd still love to give it a try now. I know my view of it is entirely romanticized, but I'd love to try it for a week or two anyway. Just to be completely without technology for a little while and do everything by hand, cook from scratch with o fancy ingredients, to have set days of the week for different chores, to get up and go to bed with the sun, and to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, like singing together as a family, playing instruments, dancing around the room, making gifts for each other. I know it would be such hard work to do it all the time and life was terribly hard for those pioneers, but wouldn't it be lovely if we could go back to even some of that now? Even if just for a little while? I guess I just hanker after simpler times. Maybe that's awfully old fashioned of me, but it's true!

[Devi]

I really wish I'd kept my Malory Towers and Little House boos now - I donated them many years ago to a jumble sale or something. I remember swithering over doing it too. *facepalm*

 

I used to watch Little House on the Prairie every Sunday (or The Waltons when they switched over - it was always one or the other!), and even now, if I come across an episode when I'm channel hopping, I get completely overcome with nostalgia. It just totally takes me back to my childhood when I always wished I could experience living that way. I'd still love to give it a try now. I know my view of it is entirely romanticized, but I'd love to try it for a week or two anyway. Just to be completely without technology for a little while and do everything by hand, cook from scratch with o fancy ingredients, to have set days of the week for different chores, to get up and go to bed with the sun, and to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, like singing together as a family, playing instruments, dancing around the room, making gifts for each other. I know it would be such hard work to do it all the time and life was terribly hard for those pioneers, but wouldn't it be lovely if we could go back to even some of that now? Even if just for a little while? I guess I just hanker after simpler times. Maybe that's awfully old fashioned of me, but it's true!

 

 

I have felt the same way too! With my health issues I think I wouldn't do to well living that lifestyle, but to experience it would be something!

 

I remember watching the show on tv growing up too.

[Kell]

I'm taking part in another blog tour today and tomorrow. The book is Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth. You can see my review HERE. Check back tomorrow for the author interview!

[frankie]

I'm so surprised - I have just finished reading a parenting book and actually enjoyed it!!! Not only did I agree with almost everything in it (we were already doing a lot of the things mentioned in it), but the elements we've introduced this week are already working too -how's that for a result!?!

 

Highly recommend Why French Children Don't Talk Back by Catherine Crawford (review will be up tomorrow morning).

 

This is so odd! I was in the bookshop today, and I was browsing the (auto)biography/memoirs section and I happened to notice this book called French Children Don't Throw Food. The title was so curious that I picked the book up (I have no children, and as I don't have any special man in my life I'm not likely to have children any time soon, so I'm not fully sure why I bothered...), and then read the back and thought perhaps this was the book you'd read sometime ago, and which you reviewed. The book seemed readable and it's supposed to be funny, too, so I figured it must be the same book. I have a bit of a French thing going on, in the back burner, so I had to buy the book. I just did a search for the title and couldn't find a hit in your reading log, so I browsed through the posts and noticed that it wasn't the same book after all Well, doesn't matter, it sounds like an intriguing read anyways. You might want to check it out since you liked that other French child rearing book

[Kell]

I'll look out for it, thank you!

[frankie]

No worries, you're welcome!

[Kell]

Well, just had a MASSIVE clear-out of books prior to moving. We're trying to cut down on the amount of stuff we'll have to pack when we move in September, so I decided to cull both Mount TBR and my permanent collection. I have been ruthless. I still have most of my permanent collection intact, but Mount TBR has suffered greatly - it's now about a third the size it was!

Still, my "loss" is to the gain of my sister and the Portlethen Library - I pass on all my books to my sister and then when she's done with them (or if she doesn't fancy them at all) she donates them to the library which hasn't had an acquisitions budget for AGES. It's good knowing my books are going to be read and enjoyed by others if they'll not be staying with me.

[chesilbeach]

You're lucky you can donate books to your library, as ours aren't allowed to accept them for some ludicrous reason, especially as although they do have an acquisition budget, it's never be enough.

[Inver]

Well done Kell, that must have taken a while to decide on a keep/give away pile. It would take me forever. Reminds me of all the house clearing of book shelves we did over the years. Is Xan having any say on his books keep/give away.

[Athena]

Nice that you can give them to your sister and the library .

[Kell]

Yes, Xan always has a say in what stays ad what goes if it's his things, but he's always been very good about it - toys, books, whatever - if anything is torn or broken, it goes in the bin. if anything is a bit "young" for him, it gets donated - he always says things like "another littler boy or girl can have this now!" and it makes him happy to think of someone else enjoying it. He's such a sweet boy!

 

My sister and I have been donating our books to our old library for a couple of years now. Our old school got knocked down and rebuilt and the school library is now also the public library - still has the same librarian. We both spent a lot of time in there (reading and escaping from bullies) and got very friendly with the librarian, so that place was the one area of school which gave us fond memories. Between us we must have handed over about a thousand books or so over the last 2 or three years, as we regularly have clear-outs and pass books back and forwards between ourselves as well.

[Kell]

I took part in another blog tour (I LOVE doing those!) for another excellent book.

 

The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth:

Review HERE

Author interview HERE