Jake Drake Bully Buster

We finished a new Jake drake book tonight, Jake Drake Bully Buster. We read it in only two nights. And we read another book as well Scooby-Doo and the Mummy’s Curse.

Scooby-Doo and the Mummy's Curse — Scooby-Doo and the Mummy’s Curse

I had to stop many many times while reading The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trealease to take notes. I have a ton of books I want to check out myself and an even longer list of my kids, but that is just the icing on the cake. The real prize of this book is all the supporting details that let a parent who already reads to their children know that what they are doing is important and will help their children to learn to read sooner and then become life long readers for the joy of reading, which is a great gift to give your children. I found a love of reading after college and I only regret that I didn’t find it earlier! This is a great book. If to don’t read to your kids, get this book. If you do read to your kids get this book!

Scooby-Doo and the Creepy Chef

Samantha picked up several Scooby-Doo books including Scooby-Doo and the Creepy Chef. We also started our second Jake Drake book, Jake Drake: Bully Buster. You can hear Samantha’s review of these books below.

Frog and Toad

Tonight we read Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel which was a recommended by a parenting magazine.

FriendsAreSweet Beauty and the Beast: Friends are Sweet is a book Samantha found at the used book store, and she has had me read it to her on several occasions. She really enjoys the story. You can hear her audio review below.

The last book is a look and find that Samantha read her self called Animals.

Jake Drake: Class Clown

Tonight Samantha and I finished Jake Drake: Class Clown by Andrew Clements. We laughed hard at this one and want to check out the other Jake Drake novels. We also started Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel. You can hear Samantha’s review below.

Tuff Fluff

Tonight we read Tuff Fluff: The Case of Duckie’s Missing Brain by Scott Nash. Samantha gave it four stars our of five. Her audio review is below. We also read three more chapters of Jake Drake Class Clown.

Over the River: a Turkey’s Tale

Tonight we read Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale and we stared Jake Drake: Class Clown. Samantha gave Over the River, 3 out of 5 stars. You can listen to her audio review below.

The Year of the Dog

Tonight Samantha wanted to talk about the books she read again. We finished The Year of the Dog and we also read Princess Party by Joy Allen.

Dreamboats in Zanzibar with Easter Eggs

Tonight Samantha and I read:

Arthur’s Dream Boat by Polly Dunbar
Welcome to Zanzibar Road by Niki Daly
Eliot Jones, Midnight Super Hero by Anne Cottringer
Happy Easter, Curious George by H. A. Rey
The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

I wanted to get this out quickly so, I’ll update the post with more information later. The audio review that Samantha did is below, just click on the play button.

Books Read in 2014

Introduction

The following is the list of books that I completed in 2014. I have had several goals in mind while reading through these books. I have been, since around 2010, working through a list of books from BBC. They stated that only 6 books on their list had been read by most. I’m trying to cover everything on the list. So, many books I read will be from this list. I also participated in a summer reading challenge from our local library, so I read 20 books in the month of August alone, which is much more than usual. Lastly, I’ve read many books because they are part of a series I had previously begun. Also, some books on listed below as recommendations from friends and just because I thought I would enjoy them.

I encourage anyone interested in reading to check out goodreads, a wonderful website that keeps track of the books you have read as well as those books you want to read. It is also a social site so you can discuss the book you are reading with others.

I’ve done posts like this for the last 5 years. Here are a few of the others:

Highlights

My most read author was William Shakespeare, but my highest average rating went to A.G. Riddle a relatively new author

My favorite way to read was via Kindle

I preferred Fiction in 2014 to non-fiction. It consisted of 70% of the books I read
Within Fiction I read mostly classics (40%) then, Science Fiction (23%)

Within Non-Fiction, my reads were more diverse

The longest audio book I listed to was Les Miserables at 58 hours
Total audio book listening time was 224 hours or 9 Days
Total pages read (kindle, paperback and hardback combined) was 12,210
The longest book I read was a photography book called Earth from Above: 365 Days (792 pages), which is a photography book, if we exclude “picture books”, then the longest book was The Atlantis Gene at 488 pages
The shortest book I read was To Build a Fire at 32 pages
Most of the books I read were published in 2014
The oldest book I read was Prometheus Bound written in 480 BC
It took me over a year, 455 days, to complete Les Miserable’s
Some books sit around longer than others: I put Heir to the empire on my to-read shelf on January 17, 2008 and didn’t read it until November of 2014, 2,488 days (6.8 years) after I put it on my self
I rate science fiction the highest within fiction. Within Non-Fiction I rate business books the highest
Total books read in 2014 was 67