Fun Children’s Series

Since it’s M week, I thought I should do a quick post about Blake’s new favorite series of books. Several people recommended these to me and I can understand why.

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(The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne)

Blake loves them. We’ve already read the first 5 in the series. I have #6 & #7 on hold at the library. They are pretty short chapter books that have at least one picture in each chapter. Clark can even sit still and listen to them sometimes.

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They help teach the children about history as well. Highly recommended. 🙂

A Few Suggestions…

Read this:

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It has been my favorite book of the year – by far – and the sequel comes out in 2 weeks! (I’ve read this book 3 times this year – and I don’t usually reread books until it’s been a few years)

Watch this:

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If you enjoy romantic long movies set in the 1800s – you will enjoy this! (Not as good as Pride & Prejudice or as good as the book itself, but still very enjoyable)

And use this cable/internet/phone provider:

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When we bought our house in January we finally had to pay for Internet (our rental home had it included for free). The best deal Dan could find was with Surewest. We pay $55 a month for a very fast Internet connection and phone (we don’t do cable).

Last week Surewest had some customer appreciation events. One night they had a free barbeque in Roseville with dinner, dessert, and raffle prizes. Then on Saturday they gave each customer 4 free movie tickets for the movie Up. The boys were very excited since we almost never go to the movies (this was actually Clark’s first time, Blake has gone a few times before). While munching our free donuts and drinking our free juice, we also won a raffle prize – four free tickets to the California State Fair as well as tickets for the monorail. Pretty sweet!

When other companies are cutting back with the economy, Surewest is taking care of it’s customers. I highly recommend them!

*Note*
I didn’t think Up was that amazing. Our kids were scared of all the crazy dogs and most of the movie was really for adults, with a few funny things for children. Clark was totally bored.

I think I have a problem…

Currently there are 10 books sitting on my nightstand.

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I’m almost done with the first 2 books, but that still leaves 8 books to read. And that doesn’t even count the 3 audio books I have.

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Why do I check out so many?!? (oh wait, I know why. I hear a recommendation and put the book on hold at the library – maybe I’m getting too many recommendations…) Anyone have any suggestions on which ones I should read first? (or not read?)

The Time Traveler’s Wife

I read this book 3 years ago and really enjoyed it. I just found the movie trailer at imdb.com and some people commented on how much sappier it looks than the book. The book had a lot of foul language, so I don’t care if it’s sappier. Every time I watch the trailer I’m more excited to see it!

(Some comments were saying they didn’t want it to be like The Notebook and didn’t know why they picked Lifehouse music – but I loved The Notebook and love Lifehouse music!)

Goodreads

I finally joined goodreads. I’ve been using LibraryThing for a few years to keep track of my books, but once you have over 200 books it’s no longer free, so I decided to export them to goodreads. I liked LibraryThing just fine; I just didn’t want to pay any money. I’ve gotten at least 5 free books through LibraryThing to review, so I will probably keep my account up to date there.

Here is my goodreads link if anyone wants to friend me: http://www.goodreads.com/ladykatie

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