I’m finishing an Alice Sebold book then heading on to Dostoyevsky – its been way too long since I’ve tackled a classic and I miss sitting down to really loaded books like I used to for school!

I’m reading ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman. I’m about 1/3 of the way through and it’s…interesting. Its one of my friend’s favorites and he bought it for me. Up next: a Microbiology text for my summer class! 😉

When I read the title of the book…I read ‘Leaning at the Edge’ because the boat is leaning…

As for me the reading lately is focused on birthing…or learning ways to breath through the laboring stages. However I definitely enjoyed the boobie book, it was the first I read and now feel prepared for breast feeding- or at least know where to go when I need help.

I’m reading Middlesex, a book about a hermaphrodite and his family history. My friend Amy Lee is a middle school teacher and she gave it to me, so far it’s really interesting!

I am reading 50 Shade of Grey right now. It is… intense.

I read Endurance which is another book about Shackleton’s experience. It was incredible! Understanding that the information might be a little technical or not totally relatable (so much ice!)–his leadership lessons are AMAZING.

It’s crazy how his skills were practices 90 years ago still hold true today.

Enjoy the reading.

I’m reading Fifteen Shades of Grey. I’m enjoying it so far. Different from what I usually read (James Patterson) but still very addicting.

Ashamed to admit it, but Fifty Shades Darker. Total escapism.

Game of Thrones! Actually I just finished it, am terribly addicted, and dying to start the next book in the series… However, I’m about to pop a baby in 10 weeks, so I’m trying REALLY hard to settle down and focus instead on the Birth Partner, the Happiest Baby on the Block, and other such practical reads 🙂

Game of Thrones and Count of Monte Cristo. I usually read 2 books at a time (one at home and one on the commute) but I try to make at least one of them a quick easy read. Oops – I’ve been working on these 2 books for 2 months. At least.

That breakfast looks amazing!! I need to start getting more creative with that meal.. I am always so short on time! Perhaps I need to stop hitting the snooze so much 😛

I am currently reading The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain. It is all about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife and I am surprised that I am liking it so much! I am also reading the second book of the Hunger Games series.

That breakfast does look yummy!!

I’m reading “Cutting for Stone.” Very well-written story.
I read a TON when my baby was a newborn, stock up on some good books to read while nursing!
Here’s a list of some of my favorites: http://www.thekriegers.org/post/15296706690/ive-been-reading

I just finished How to Eat a Cupcake and a few days before, I finished Once Upon a Secret (about an intern’s affair with President Kennedy).

Both were quick reads – perfect since I was traveling.

Yayyy! Can’t wait for Baby HTP! LOVEEEEE the nursery! LOVE the paper lantern mobile! I’ll have to store that for future use! 🙂

xo

Currently not reading anything. I read the Fifty Shades Trilogy twice last week, but now my friend is borrowing them. I’ll probably read them again once I get them back! (hopefully soon!)

I’m reading a few things, but my main focus is on a book by bell hooks. It is “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.”

Early on, hooks brings up the book “The Feminine Mystique,” a book often thought of as the book that made contemporary feminism possible. However, hooks takes Friedan to task for her clear exclusion of non-white women and poor women. hooks also said, about Friedan, “She did not speak of the needs of women without men, without children, without homes…She did not tell readers whether it was more fulfilling to be a maid, a babysitter, a factory worker, a clerk, or a prostitute than to be a leisure-class housewife.”

hooks’s main point in this book, so far, seems to be to point out the intersections of sexism, classism, racism, and other forms of domination.

I recently finished reading The Magicians and The Magician King. They are kind of a darker Harry Potter with college kids and adults instead of kids. They were pretty entertaining!