books

Gman and I have been reading a ton of books.  Picture and chapter books for him, young adult and other stuff for me.  We've come across some great stuff.

 

Gman fell in love with The Black Stallion and the Narnia books.  He was so enthralled with The Black Stallion that he would ask for it when it wasn't time for our nightly read.  He got so excited at certain points that he couldn't lay down and listen, he had to bounce on his knees.  And with all the Narnia books, we read them for bedtime as well.  One Saturday the whole family was wondering what was going to happen next in the last book, The Last Battle and we were just going to read one more chapter, but then we ended up reading the whole thing.  Gman sat still for 2 hours enthralled with the story.

 

I've read a several really great books.  Testimony of Two Men, Pillars of the Earth, and Still Alice [the last about a woman with Alzheimer's].  My favorite so far has been Left Neglected about a woman who suffers a brain injury and becomes unable to perceive things to her left.  She's not blind or deaf on the left, she just doesn't remember that it's there.  This is apparently a read neurological thing that can happen.  The book was written by a neurologist [or neurosurgeon, I can't remember which] and I found the whole clinical aspect of it fascinating, but not nearly as great as the story about how the family grows and changes for the better from having to deal with this issue.