Stone Soup for Five: What we're reading...

What we're reading...

The boys and I just finished the audio version of this book:


The Fast and the Furriest by Andy Behrens



It was a great book, fun ride and huge character development and change.  
There were true laugh out loud parts, and parts we still quote
"Seriously, Cromwell, gross."

Very fun read.
(There is one curse word, used late in the book about someone being Bad-***)
Lots of fun. We listened to the audio version, which was very well done.
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We are now on night 75 of our consectuive nights read-aloud promise and finished 
Lemony Snicket's Who Could That Be At This Hour.



Weird little book, but good story line.  Lots of loose ends, but there is another coming out.
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And we just finished Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation.
It was a long, thick book, but the boys loved it.  I think it was probably written to a little younger audience, but even my 14 and 15 year old enjoyed it.



Story full of superheros who live in the Imagine Nation and the an orphan boy who finds out he is part of the nation too.  Part Harry Potter, part Comic Book, and a great adventure.
I think we'll listen to the other books (four in the series) on CD though, because it took all the 
library renewals allowed to read aloud through it.
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I'm still working through 
Give Them Grace



Though there are parts I roll my eyes at (the long, long talks in the heat of the moment), so much of the information is eye opening and really helping me see that it's not about the boys' outward behavior, but inward heart, and who is ultimately responsible for that change (not me, not them, but God).  Good stuff, but thick reading and a lot to digest.
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For my biography reading, I'm currently enjoying this huge book on Walt Disney


I picked it up on our vacation in Disneyland and have enjoyed it so far, but am only up to where is is about 18, and there's the WHOLE book left to go.  Great so far though. I really long for that small town life that he had growing up, though not ideal, I can see how he formed such a love for art and hard working personality.
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For Bible Study, I'm working through Crazy Love by Francis Chan



That link is to the workbook I'm going through with a friend.  It adds a whole new level to the book, but the book is great on its own too.

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I'm not sure what is next on our read aloud list (we had to put aside Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson because it was just too hard to read through aloud... I was tongue tied, the boys were disinterested.  Maybe we'll re-visit it later.)  We have this book, so maybe we'll try it. Next year in school the boys will be reading The Iliad, so having a different version may help them understand it a bit more when they're in the thick of it.




That's it for now.  If you know of any great read-alouds, let me know!
Thanks!

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