Mommy To Bees

Book Project: in the small

What happens when a flash of blue light changes your life...

...suddenly you are 1/10th your original size.

Rather than being an almost 5' tall 12-year old boy...

(click on the picture to go to Michael Hague's website)

...you are now a 5" tall 12-year old boy!

Kyler finished a book project this week.

A fun graphic novel by Michael Hague called in the small.

I'm always searching for fun books for Kyler to read. 

Kyler isn't an avid reader and I find his apathy a challenge.

So, I created a whole project on this book.

iN the Small

Writing project

Download IN the Small writing project

Kyler wasn't really interested in starting his project,

but finally he really enjoyed doing the project.

   

If you want to see what Kyler did with his project,

Download Myworld.

It is in PDF format, so some of the pictures are sideways.
 

Book: Deliver Us From Evil

 

I just love Baldacci's books, 

and this one didn't disappoint me one bit.

 I do recommend you read his book The Whole Truth, first,

as he brings back a character from this book with the assumptions 

that you are familiar to this character.

Hmmmmm....mental problem....

...I started reading The Last Song, by Sparks.

But I had to put it down.  I kept waiting for the vampires to jump out and wondering if so-and-so might be a vampire........

Can you tell what I've been reading a lot lately?

In one day....

I read the new Sookie novel!!!

Ohooo, I can't wait for the next novel...

...I wonder how long I"ll have to wait!?!

If you like the Twilight novels, and you are an adult, you should read the

Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.

 

Indian Captive

A few of the books from Sonlight's Core 3 are very sad.  

One of the books we replaced with Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemisen.

This story starts out in frontier colonial America with Molly's (Mary) family in their home.

As the title tells, Molly is captured by Indians and becomes a captive.

The story gives an interesting account of the lives of the Indians.

We're about 1/2 through the story and all of us are enjoying it.

Just updated....

.... my Read in 2010 list.  They aren't in order and I'm currently rereading The Protector's War.

I'm thinking about making another list.... listing only the new books read in 2010.

UPDATE:  okay, only a few minutes later... but keep looking down.  I've added a new list.

Books for 2009

I didn't post all of the books I read in 2009 and I am starting a new list, Books for 2010, but I thought I would post a list here.  Just for fun!

1. Christy

2. Dies the Fire

3. The Protector's War 

4. The Heart of the 5 Love Languages

5. Love Comes Softly (read twice)

6. Love's Enduring Promise (read twice)

7. Love's Long Journey (read twice)

8. Love's Abiding Joy

9. Love's Unending Legacy

10. Love's Unfolding Dream (read twice)

11. Midshipman's Hope

12. Challenger's Hope

13. Prisoner's Hope

14. Fisherman's Hope

15. Patriarch's Hope

16. Voices of Hope

17. Children of Hope

18. Beggars and Choosers

19. Beggars in Spain

20. Beggars Ride

21. The Princes of Ireland

22. The City of Ember (read twice)

23. The People of Sparks (read twice)

24. The Diamond of Darkhold (read twice)

25. The Prophet of Yonwood (read twice)

26. Lightening (read twice)

27. The 8th Confession

28. First Family

29. 1984 (didn't finish)

30. Sarah: Women of Genesis

31. Strangers

32. Shadowfires

33. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

34. Let the Circle Be Unbroken

35. Your Heart Belongs to Me

36. One Second After (read twice)

37. The Associate

38. Twilight Eyes

39. Run for Your Life

40. Cross Country

41. The Memory of Earth

42. The Call of Earth

43. The Ships of Earth

44. Earthfall

45. Earthborn

46. The Rebels of Ireland

47. Guardian of the Balance (read twice)

48. Guardian of the Trust

49. Guardian of the Vision

50. Guardian of the Promise

51. Guardian of the Freedom

52. Giver

53. Deception Point

54. Digital Fortress

55. Lyon's Pride

56. The Wings of Pegasus

57. Lucifer's Hammer (read twice)

58. Twilight (read twice)

59. New Moon (read twice)

60. Eclipse (read twice)

61. Breaking Dawn (read twice)

62. Gathering Blue (read twice)

63. Messenger (read twice)

64. The Hunt for Red October

65. Swimsuit

66. Alex Cross's Trial

67. Word of Honor

68. The Sword of the Lady (read twice)

69. Dead Until Dark (read twice)

70. Living Dead in Dallas (read twice)

71. Club Dead (read twice)

72. The Lost Symbol (read twice)

73. The Charm School

74. Dead to the World (read twice)

75. Dead as a Doornail (read twice)

76. True Blue

77. Definitely Dead  (read twice)

78. All Together Dead  (read twice)

79. From Dead to Worse  (read twice)

80. Dead And Gone  (read twice)

81. A Touch of Dead  (read twice)

82. Pegasus in Space

83. All the Weyrs of Pern

84. The Dolphins of Pern

85. The Langoliers

86. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

87. Treasure Island

88. 1st to Die

89. 2nd Chance

90. Hidden Empire

91. I, Alex Cross

92. Vanished

93. 3rd Degree

94. 4th of July

95. The 5th Horseman

96. The 6th Target

97. 7th Heaven

98. Anne of Green Gables

99. Anne of Avonlea

100. Sister's Keeper

A first....

Kyler stayed up until 10:30 PM, when I went to bed, reading a book!!!

AND, he didn't get up this morning....

...because he was finishing the book.

AND!!!!!!

He bypassed the TV so he could read the NEXT book in the series.

Reading....

I've been reading, but not posting... and I really need to update my list on the side.

For the past week I've been reading Stephenie Meyer's twilight series.  I've been steadfastly ignoring the movie and until a few weeks ago didn't even realize it was based on a book.  My friend finally challenged me:  "You loved the Potter books, suck it up, you will love this series.  Stop being a snob."

Okay.  Fine!!!

So far my favorites are eclipse and breaking dawn, I can't pick one.

I can't wait for midnight sun comes out!!  

I may also have to see what else she has written!

  

The BBC says......

The BBC says that the average person has read only 6 out of these 100 books.

How many have you read?  

I've marked the ones I've read.  60/100, not bad... there are a few books on this list that I've never even heard of.  I have some reading to do.

√ 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 

√ 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -
√ 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 
√ 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - 
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 
√ 6 The Bible - 
√ 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - (I started this book and couldn't finish it, it was giving me nightmares!)
√ 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
√ 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -

√ 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - 
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –
√ 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
√ 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks -
√ 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 
√ 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot-

√ 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 
√ 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 
√ 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
√ 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
√ 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
√ 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
√ 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
√ 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - 
√ 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -

√ 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
√ 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
√ 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
√ 34 Emma-Jane Austen - 
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
√ 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
√ 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - 
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - 
√ 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
√ 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -

√ 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
√ 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
√ 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
√ 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
√ 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
√ 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - 

√ 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
√ 52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
√ 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - 
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafo -
√ 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
√ 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley-
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -

√ 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - 
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
√ 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
√ 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - 
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
√ 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - 
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
√ 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -

√ 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - 
√ 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - 
√ 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
√ 75 Ulysses - James Joyce - 
√ 76 The Inferno – Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -

80 Possession - AS Byatt
√ 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
√ 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - 
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
√ 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - 
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - 
√ 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 
√ 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - 
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - 
√ 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - 
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - 
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
√ 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - 
√ 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
√ 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo –