Books, Books, Books!

The extra sunlight at the end of the day means we can all get a lot more reading in! Evie has been loving Daring Book for Girls. It is quite a compendium, filled with everything from rules for softball, to list of famous female inventors to directions to make a willow whistle. Evie made her Daring Girls Kit immediately, and yesterday morning was spent making cloth-covered books for friends. There is also a Dangerous Book for Boys. I am told by a friend (a 12 year old boy) that as a girl, I am risking life and limb by looking inside that one!

Months ago I picked up The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter for 50 cents at a used book store. It sat on the shelf for quite awhile until Evie picked up yesterday and started in. It draws threads between the world of Harry Potter and the myths and legends and facts that J.K. Rowling used to create the stories. That made Evie want to re-read the HP series so she has been walking around engulfed by #1 since yesterday afternoon.

Thanks to Denise I am never at a loss for good books to read. I recently finished On Good Land: Autobiography of an Urban Farm, Extreme Simplicity: Homesteading In the City, and The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans. The last was my favorite, the author talks with a number of immigrant Americans about how gardening is a way to preserve their cultural heritage--very moving. I have quite a few on my "hold" list at the library, I will report back on those as well.