a weekend of books!

so harry potter made a grand entrance early saturday morning...we've out grown going to barnes and noble at midnight...thanks be to god...
but i had to make a krogers run before packing the car on saturday and managed a copy at a bargain price.
so mac the read aholic...read it on the way to michigan until it was too dark, then he borrowed hudson's head lamp to keep going.
he finished the book some time early on sunday morning...in the wee hours...but he was going at about 100 pages an hour!
amazing!

yes, the lewin clan all love books! and we must pace ourselve in the acquistion of such in order to buy food, clothing and other such necessities! so this leads me to a tag on books that susie albert miller gave me a month ago!
so here's a long winded part 1:
happy summer reading to you all!

Books
Now you must know that I was an English major so books are in my blood..
I’d have to say that I am a bookaholic…I won’t say I am a readaholic because too often I buy a book and it takes me awhile to read it…I did sign up for the summer reading club every summer in my childhood and read and read. Reading has always been a great escape for me…and books feed my soul….i started my first novel in 7th grade it was about a servant girl who lived in the attic of a manor house in england…of course she ends up falling in love with the lord’s son ….but only after she has grown up and educated herself…
Very sabrinaesque…but I hadn’t seen the movie at the time…
I just am a true romantic at heart!

How many: too many…stacks by the bed, stacks in the office, shelves in the dining room living, and more in the basement!
Last book purchased: brennan manning the foolishness of jesus
Last book read: blue like jazz
Reading the manning book and shaping of things to come

Most meaningful books from childhood:
I can still remember the illustrations from the little enginet hat could” the train had lollipops and bottles of milk…
Also there was a book of verse and poetry called that we called “the tall thin book”
It had the poem “counterpane” by Robert louis Stephenson” and once again I loved the illustration that went with that…and a great story called “the ever lasting lollipop” and another poem …”mr nobody”
When mac was little I actually found another copy of the book so I have read it to my kids too.

My dad had an old book from his childhood called “sonny elephant”
I loved all the Little House on the Praire books, mysteries, and the Chronicles of Narnia…
The summer I accepted jesus at camp, my camp counselor read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe out loud to us every night…it was my first introduction to narnia and cs lewis.

There was novel called the witch of blackbird pond that is still a favorite …about a girl who moves from a british settlement in the Caribbean to live with her relatives in a puritan town in massachussetts…
How she is outcast and questioned because she can swim, she wears bright colors and she’d rather be out in the countryside than sit all day in church!

The Lord of the Rings…I read it in high school, took a course on the books in college and we’ve read them out loud as a family…they are still amazing to me!

Jane Eyre…
I used to teach language arts and my favorite book to teach was the Great Gatsby…

I also have read everything Eugenia Price wrote…she wrote historic fiction…set in the south…especially st. simons island…someone in her novels knows jesus and has he opportunity to influence others…great beach reading!

Another great beach book is "a year in provence"…
tomorrow...spiritual books i love.

Comments

[Micah Girl]

I, too, LOVED the Witch of Blackbird Pond growing up, as well as a book called the Velvet Room by (I think) Zilpha Keatley Snyder, but have not been able to find it anywhere! And of course I loved Jane Eyre as Mr. Rochester was always one of my fantasy men--strong, intellectual and tender underneath.

[Andrew SEely]

I really should have emailed you or called you when you were in SD meeting with YS people but I had a few cool ideas for worship stations. I'd love to share them with ya. Send me an email or give me a call. 818 800 1890.

I'm looking forward to hanging out in Sac this fall.

[Russell Smith]

I finished Harry Potter 6 on Monday morning at 3:30 am. What a read!

I'm a huge Narnia fan, Tolkien Fan, and fan of just about anything else I can pick up.

Indeed, you've inspired me to make my next blog post about what's scattered about my reading environs.

Russell

[susie]

also a book-aholic, but even more a read-aholic... confessing to reading harry potter 6 in a day. just couldn't put it down!
my oldest daughter did what your son did... we have out grown the midnight HP partie at barnes & noble, so she ordered oone in a dvance and it arrived first thing sat morning!

i remember being buried in the little house series, each time i would get a new book, and i loved the witch of blackbird pond;)

happy vacationing

[Elise]

Sonny Elephant. I just remembered this book last night watching a PBS special. I could see the black cover in my mind and remember Sonny eating his favorite sweet rice balls.My grandmother had this book. I wish I could find a copy of it again and read it. Funny, people throw away children's books thinking they will never be read as the child grows up. Maybe a sign of society's not thinking much worth of childhood? On to more mature and what? better things? Anyway after watching PBS special on Asian Elephants with Meg Ryan as host I just had this ephiphany and remembered. This was the closest entry on web that might come close to the Sonny Elephant book I knew and loved as a child. Anyone know of a copy??

[Marilyn]

So excited that someone else 'out there' remembers Sonny the Elephant. That was my very favorite book when I was in 4th grade when my teacher would read it to us! That would have been in the late forties! If there is anyone out there who has this book, wouldn't it be wonderful to go back to innocent times. Maybe they have it on EBay?

[Donna Pope]

I also love Sonny Elephant because of a teacher in Olney, IL reading it to us. I found a copy on ebay last year and I will always treasure it.

[Marilyn]

What fun! Sonny Elephant was my very favorite book and my teacher used to read in our class too .. 4th grade in Chicago! It's such a great connection sharing my favorite book with someone from the past. I'm going to order a copy right now! Thanks so much for the smiles

[Carol Schafer]

I have a copy of Sonny Elephant, which I purchased at Ms Fletcher's sale in Olney, IL. She gave generations of children a love of good books! Her summer story hours were amazing! Let me know if you cannot find a copy.
Carol Vaughn Schafer