What I'm Reading

Amazing! Love it!  Anyone with any interest in children, disabilities, differences, humanity, tolerance, understanding should pick this book up.  

Good Book

Last month's book club choice was Annabel by Kathleen Winter.  It was slow-going at first but that might have been because my mind was elsewhere (babies).  I ended up really liking it and I'm definitely recommending it.  It is about a child born, both male and female, in a 1968 small town in Canada. It follows his life and the relationship with his parents, who decided to raise him as a boy, and with a family friend/teacher who wants to embrace his differences and inner female.

Book Interrupted

Sorry sweet book about two women rekindling an old childhood friendship and all of their crazy adventures...Christian Grey has slipped into your slot. (pun intended)

I had a total impulse purchase moment at Costco the other day and ended up with the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy in my basket.  I immediately put down the book I was reading (which wasn't that hard to do anyway) and started 50 Shades, just to see what all this fuss is about ;)

It has my attention so far.  Not quite as shocking as some people are making it out to be.  I guess I'm not very sensitive to that kind of thing.  I mean, I'm not saying I would recommend this book to my grandma or anything but it's nothing I haven't heard before.

How's this for a set up?  All in all this was a very successful Costco run.

What I'm Reading

Well I haven't left my house for the last 2 days while reading the first two books of The Hunger Games series.  I'm obsessed.  I am running out to get the 3rd book tomorrow because I'm dying to know how this all wraps up. 

What I'm Reading

From the brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of Running with Scissors), this book is a memoir about growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's.  It's so enlightening to hear about how it felt first hand.  Understanding the Autism spectrum is so important, not only for people like me working directly with it, but for everyone.  It is becoming so prevalent in our world these days that just about everyone has come into contact with someone who is "on the spectrum".  This book has changed my perspective a little bit.  John Elder Robison doesn't consider his Asperger's a disorder.  He knows he is different but he doesn't view that as a bad thing.  What a great way to think.  If only everyone could think of our differences as just that, differences.

Good Book

My step mom gave me this book a few months ago and it has been sitting on my night stand, forgotten.  I picked it up last night, needing some insight into my Cody, and I have not been able to put it down.  I'm not even half way through and I already highly recommend!

                                               
                                This is a must-read for any dog lover.