Books!

Georgia and I have a shared hobby. It is reading books. She can pour over pages for a good 30 minutes, which is a long time in toddler world! And me, well, I pour over them for hours, sometimes wasting entire days absorbed in my most recent discovery. I tend to enjoy books that are about real life or that teach a person how to do something. In the past I would go on buying binges where I would purchase 5-6 new books at a time. My spending started becoming ridiculous and I had to find a way to curb my purchases. That is when I discovered the library. Yes, I know, it has been around for centuries, but I never realized just how handy the local library can be. Instead of wasting my money buying every book that grabs my attention, now I just hop on my computer, log in to my nearest library and put my most current book interests in my electronic basket. Then, the trusty librarians go and find the books for me and e-mail me when my holdings are ready. At my convenience I swing by the library and pick up my selections. It is a brillant system and a fabulous example of my tax dollars at work. If the library doesn't happen to have a book I want I just fill out an inter-library loan form and wait a week or two and it arrives from a neighboring state. One time I inter-library loaned a book of 17th century Dutch floral sketches because the book cost over $200 and I didn't want to shell out that kind of money for a book just to look at pictures. The book arrived from Baylor library and was beautiful!
Since reading is such a part of our life I figured I would add some lists of our favorite books. You can find them to the left. Have you ever read any of these? What are your favorite children's books? What are you reading at the moment? I'm always interested in learning about new books, so if anyone out there reading this has some suggestions please do tell! :)