Calling All Mama Bookworms!

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Lots of us mamas love to curl up with a good book. Some of us might want to get back into the habit. (Amazing how a little one or two can disrupt a bookworm’s delight!) I know I don’t have to work very hard to convince the bookworms out there, but I love this graphic of the benefits of reading from The Wall Street Journal:

Image source: The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/articles/read-slowly-to-benefit-your-brain-and-cut-stress-1410823086
Image source: The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/articles/read-slowly-to-benefit-your-brain-and-cut-stress-1410823086

Because isolation is inherent to both reading and mothering, we at Nashville Moms Blog are starting an easy peasy book club! No emails to read. No meetings to attend. Let’s just read a few book together and talk about them.

Here’s how it will work. To start, I’ve picked some books to consider. Check them out and then vote on our Facebook poll for the one you want to read. (We’ll aim to finish by Nov 15). We’ll pick a new book to enjoy every six weeks.

Maynard and Jennica
by Rudolph Delson (300 pages)

From GoodReads: A wildly original debut, Maynard and Jennica is both a hilarious urban comedy and a captivating love story. In the summer of 2000, while riding the uptown number 6 train, the musician/filmmaker Maynard Gogarty first encounters the beautiful Jennica Green.Though their initial meeting is brief, when fate next brings them together a romance ensues, and as with most things… (read more here). Here’s the book review from The New York Times.

The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson (443 pages)

From GoodReads: An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans… (read more here). Here’s the book review from The New York Times.

Once Upon a River
by Bonnie Jo Campbell (348 pages)

From GoodReads: Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her… (read more here). Here’s the book review from The New York Times.

Our poll on our Facebook page will run from now until September 30. We’ll announce the book on October 1 and plan to share our reflections on it in six weeks (around Nov 15). At the beginning of November, we’ll choose another book to read over the holidays, and away we’ll go!

Here’s to enriching our minds and the conversations we have with each other on the playground or gymnastics or during drop off and pick up times at school. Cheers!

 

 

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