Summer Reading Groupies

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I decided that since I expend so much effort on helping my kids with the library's summer reading program, that I would also set a reading goal for myself for the summer. Since when did we outgrow the need to read? Just because we are not children does not mean reading is no longer important to our intelligence or our expanding view of the world around us. Why do we allow ourselves to be so busy that we don't take a little time to grow our minds by delving into the pages of a good read?

So here it is: I'm going to complete 3 books this summer. This is a tall order with our pending move in July. I may or may not make this goal, but I'm certainly going to try!

So join me, won't you? Set a goal for yourself! Maybe it's just to finish a book you've already started, or even read a magazine you've had sitting on your side table. Or perhaps you have more lofty goals than I - 5 books? 10? We'll do it together, sharing about what we're reading as we go, and we can party at the end of August by sharing our completed goals!

Grab the logo & add it to your blog to show you're partipating, and link back to this post so others can join! Post a comment here to let others here know you're participating, so we can come read your Summer Reading posts as well! Invite your friends... the more, the merrier!

It wouldn't be a Summer Reading Program without a prize! On August 31st, I'll draw a name from all participants who post on this thread, and I'll send that winner their own "Anna" bookmark, hand crocheted by me! And if you want to add a prize, post it on your blog, and let me know so I can add it here.

Thank you so much to 5 Minutes For Mom for mentioning the Summer Reading Groupies!

5M4M is a great blog run by Janice & Susan, twin WAHM's with great shops of their own, plus they help promote other WAHM businesses. Check out their sites!

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my book share:

I'll start by sharing about what I am currently reading: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I have an affinity for classics and this one has not disappointed me. It was written in 1847, yet I have been struck by bit after bit of timeless wisdom.

This first quote amazed me in it's forward thinking for the time, in an age when women's lives were somewhat small.

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally. But women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."

And here is the second, "A thought well-thought"...

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition"

(I had to look deglutition up: the act or process of swallowing)