Today I finished reading Max Lucado's Fearless book. It is a short, easy read; and Mr. Lucado is a good storyteller, who uses excellent verses about fear. It was beneficial to read through what Jesus says about fear. And Max appreciates stories about past christians and their lives of faith, which helps me put today into perspective.
I'm still reading Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt to the kids, hoping to complete this fascinating book by the time the Great goes to kindergarten. I started, for my own reading, David McCullough's biography of Theodore's rise, Mornings on Horseback.
I was able to begin Mornings on Horseback because I needed to read a non-fiction book that I already owned and had been unpacked. Since the move I have finished Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and Death is Now My Neighbour by Colin Dexter. I really enjoyed all three reads, for different reasons. The Augustus biography was all new information for me, and I liked that Goldsworthy didn't add to what can be proven, but does discuss different historian theories and speculations. I didn't want to put Jane Eyre down. I became quite obsessed with what was going to happen to Jane. And while Death is Now My Neighbour wasn't my favorite of Dexter's puzzles, reading about Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis is now like spending time with old friends.
Squirms is currently a big fan of the How Do Dinosaurs series of books and the Charlie Brown Christmas story. I have been trying to pique her interest in the Peter Rabbit series of books, but those are rather long for her attention span. The Great likes books with space shuttles and trains. Technically, he classifies rockets as shuttles too. He really likes to make the noises associated with shuttle launch, and train whistles.
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