the books we live with...

it occurred to me, that i did not do a book post for a long time (it was in june last year...). books are with us at home as well as traveling along on the way out of the house, coming along on holidays or weekends at my parents. i just ordered a bunch for naomi, she has been improving her english reading skills a lot, to my happiness. amos still spends many hours a week at the local library to read his beloved comics and what ever he can not find on his bedroom bookshelf.
so here we go, this is what we all enjoy at the moment:

this is thea's pile, her favorite to be told to her is "millie's marvellous hat", as i already told you a couple days ago here.

naomi's reading is interesting, there are mainly two types of books. when i put her to bed we read the books by patricia maclachlan she loves those and her english reading has been improving a lot. and then when joel is putting her to bed, he works through the "atlas der anatomie des menschen", naomi is very excited in any aspect of the human body. i got that atlas for free from the library as they put a new copy on their shelf. an other one she loves a lot is "julie ist wieder da!" a book about a girl fighting leukemia.

this is my pile i have been working for a while now sherry turkle's "alone together", i love to dive into this one and the thinking process is pushed further and further into the way we are interacting and living a more and more technology interwoven life. something i try to not be pulled into myself, but definitely i can see this around me, how people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact. and how all those social networking, texting and the e-communication has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other. definitely a very insightful read.

joel's books are a few, though he never run's out of the house without a good fiction in his hand.

elias loves books he is familiar with. the david macaulay books are an all time favorite of his, understandably they are so wonderfully illustrated and explain so much detail. and he also is still very much living in his "old world" with the books he has read and gotten to know when we were still living in boston. sometimes it seems like, this is the way he is staying connected with his time back then... and the french vocabulary word book is also to be found at his bedside most nights, i'm glad for that as he is not easily learning french but never the less is keeping up with it.

amos is definitely our most avid reader, it must be something like 500 pages a week or so. he reads almost whatever comes into his hands. and the big green one was a gift "mit 365 verblueffenden experimenten durch die naturwissenschaften", a daily read and do stuff...

(the local library, definitely amos' second home)