MeadowLark
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I just had to share my giggle when I saw the title to your post <grin> The only reading I manage for personal reading is my Bible and online forum here and a chat forum that I enjoy once in the while. With my personal preference of "outside any time the sun is shining" or "on the sofa" reading to someone; I don't really have any "reading" time. How do you all manage to fit anything else in?
MeadowLark... I feel like I'm missing something!
my3boys
Member
I have a spot I like to read from, but that's a non-mentionable place.
Anytime we go camping, or a nice drive, or when I just want to relax, I like to have a book of my own I'm reading. Sometimes it's a homeschooling book and when my brain hurts from that I like to have something that is just fiction/fun, etc.
As much as I love to read to my kids and love to homeschool them, which takes alot of reading, I really need something just for me and reading is something that doesn't cause me to have to leave the house for any reason:)
I second Francine Rivers.
Also, I love end times fiction, and Joel Rosenberg has a series of five books that I couldn't put down! The first one is The Last Jihad. I'm not sure if they're audio or not, but if they were, you wouldn't be able to stop listening!
I just finished a series of 4 books (that are actually spin-offs of the Left Behind series) by Mel Odom. It's the Apocalypse series; I believe the first book is Apocalypse Dawn.
Anyway, I'm not much of a mystery reader, but these books I was not able to put down!
Lindsey
P.S. I'm slightly jealous of your ability to direct yourself toward the treadmill. I hate exercise more than, well...a lot of things. 
Way to go!
RobinP
Member
There's an older series by Brock and Bodie Thoene I've enjoyed...I think it was the Zion Chronicles. I lOVE MItford. I also like Elizabeth Goudge, OOP and probably not on audio.
Misty
Member
I read while my kids are on the swing set, but by far my favorite is in the tub , and we have sit time where we all sit and read. So I have a couple times a week to sneak in 30 min. But as I said we "listened" to the Mitford series in the car. Off to the post office, chiropractor, library and of course church. So I do better with that avenue! Thanks for the extra suggestions! Misty
Bookworm
Member
Meadowlark, none of us has enough time! LOL My youngest is 9 so I have more leeway than I used to. However, even when mine were babies, we did plenty of reading aloud, too, and try to spend much time outside (one can READ outside too!) but reading to myself was so important to me, that I tried to sneak a few minutes here and there, of course my scripture time first, then anything--newpapers, books, magazines. One day a second grade teacher visited me when my two oldest were preschoolers, and she "caught" me with my nose in a book. She told me that this might be the single most important thing I could ever do for my kids--letting them SEE me read. It's hard sometimes to convince kids that something is important if they don't see Mom and Dad doing it. So that eased some of the guilt I felt. In my home, two of my three kids were reading without any help from me from the time they were three. I always joke that they did this in self-defense since dh and I read as often as we can, and they needed to learn, too, or be left out! LOL But really. There is always so much to do. I'm never going to get it ALL done anyway, so I set aside a time each afternoon when we all read for an hour. So I have this time. And then there is a lot of "wasted" time IMO when we do things--go to the doctor, wait in line at the bank, etc. I redeem as much of that time for reading as I can. I've gotten really good at reading in five-minute bites! But it works--it's good for my brain, which is starting to go gray along with my hair, and it is good for the kids to see that I value doing this-sometimes even over getting "one more thing" done.
And then there is Sunday, blessed Sunday, when we deliberately cut out a lot of extraneous stuff--at our home, minimal chores, NO tv, walks outside but no outdoor play--that we can use for . . . READING! My favorite day of the week. (And of course NOT just because I get a little extra reading time!)
my3boys
Member
I guess you'd say I'm like Bookworm, too. My husband actually tells people that I always have my nose in a book and that I read enough for both of us. He doesn't read much and I just don't get it. But his mom was an avid reader, to the extreme, so much that she actually ignored the kids and it wasn't cause she was exploring homeschool option:) He said she was always in her room with the door closed and he and his brother just couldn't have access to here. He said he would never be that kind of parent. Fortunately he reads to the boys and enjoys them reading to him, he just doesn't read for his own pleasure. He is the active one and takes part in all of their other activities. I'm definitely not like his mom, but I always have multiple books going and just love the printed word. I'm rubbing off on my kids and they read alot more than my husband ever did. I couldn't be happier with the direction the boys are going with their desire to read:)
I wanted to mention a great source for audiobooks online -http://librivox.org/ . The price is right - FREE - and there is great selection, a lot of great writers are in the public domain. Endless entertainment!
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