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Does Anybody Feel There Are SO MANY Books They Want to Read to Their Child?
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Good lord that's the story of my life Kirei 8-) I could easily never buy a book for 5 years and still have stuff left over I'm sure what with my overflowing TBR pile. My kids have tons of books too. They're pretty good at reading everything they get, I'm just pretty bad at buying even more (lol!)
Yeah! I always buy so many books and I said that I will try to read those books, but because I was always busy when I was in college (just graduated!) I barely had the time to read the books that I bought and there's just so many books that I wanted to read, but I barely have the time for!
I an (still!) having trouble in adjusting to my grandson being in school all day instead of at home with me where we could read endlessly. (It's been 3 years - I should adjust!) I remember once when he was about 4 and someone asked him how many books we read each day and he answered, "Oh, at least 6 or 7" and the person laughed, thinking that he was exaggerating. It was probably an understatement.
Yes, so many lovely books! I started reading to Kaylee when she was in the womb. When she is an adult, I would enjoy discussing books with her including children's books. I can picture it now. =) She comes home from college and I have our books picked out for her visit. We are sitting on the couch, hot chocolate in one hand and a book in the other.
Chandra wrote: "It's really a sickness I tell ya ..."LOL! So true Chandra. Some people do shoes and bags, we do books (lol!)
Abigail wrote: "Although I do not have a child, I completely identify with both the overloaded picture-book tbr shelf (I did a similar count around a month ago, and had 270!!! unread picture-books), and the wealth..."And to think Abigail that we can all happily go to store and buy some more without even batting an eye :p
Abigail wrote: "I work at a very large bookstore, East! Believe me, the temptation is ever-present! :)"OMG! Lucky you ;)
I generally have to take whatever our library has--they have a large supply of English books in their storeroom. I'll ask them to bring some books and then I'll read those to ds. It is all very random!!!! Many books on my Goodreads shelf are not books I would have picked out. (Same with the adult books.)I discovered a new libary yesterday and I was thrilled because it has lots of "new" (actually very old but new to me) books. They have two favorites from my childhood: the set of "Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia" and both the World Book and Childcraft books I just adored. oooh!
Just Beverly Cleary and Astrid Lindgren will keep us busy for a looooooooong time. It is hard to get time to read to ds because he is always going, going, going........ Also, he prefers comics when he read by himself, so I can't count on him to read the classics on his own!