books

So I think I read Brown Bear, Brown Bear every other day- oh and The Hungry Caterpillar, they are terrific books, I just need some variety. And at night we read My Bazoople Friends and The Going To Bed Book, just the same, very good books. I think I am craving time to read more grown up books- it took me a month to finish The Five People You Meet in Heaven, I would read it for five or ten minutes at a time. I could read longer, at night when Archie goes to sleep I have some time, but then I am so sleepy that I can't keep my eyes open- and during his naps I feel like I have to do other things... but at least I find the five or ten minutes, I am happy for that.
I also started reading 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn', I love it so far. It is a story about a little girl growing up in Brooklyn in 1905 or so, she comes from a poor family- and it is about their life, about the complexities of her family and the everyday struggles and simplicities about growing up- about being a family, having jobs, going to school.
I love reading about what people do, how they do it, why they do it, and the lessons they learn or refuse to learn. It is about people, the relationships they cultivate with others, with ideas or with places, there is so much significance in knowing how someone relates to the piano they have in their home, or the river that flows by their grandma's barn, what are the stories behind these lives? I think that is part of the reason why I like reading my friend's and family's blogs so much, it isn't just to catch up on what is going on for you all in your lives, although I love that, but I like to know what you think about, what is important to you, how you relate to your everyday, it fascinates me. When Ben (Manker) wrote about the proper way to make a bed, I loved it, I could just imagine the demonstration that happened that day and the conversation, and the impatience that Ben felt at every fold of another blanket, wondering "why can't the pillows go on yet?"
So I guess this is a glimpse into my relationship with reading- I love the feeling of not being able to wait another second to open a book, find my place, read a few sentences back and be engulfed in someone elses ideas, thoughts, dreams, stories, tales, history, everything.
Arch is waking up, so it is time to go- we are going to buy some salt water taffy today, I can't wait!