Book Challenge, Week 7

Basia has heard all the buzz around the house, and insists that I include the books she has read in my weekly update. I'm proud to include her, and even prouder that she wants to be included in a reading challenge--one where she is reading the books herself, no matter how tiny they are. Here are the books The Moore Four has read over the last week.

Basia:

Grandmother's House
What Am I?
Worm Is Hot
Up the Clock
Footprints

Brishen:
This challenge has Brishen in a constant search for books. He is venturing into genres that he had not previously visited (just look at the titles below), and that's not all good. He reads so much, though, for school and pleasure, that I'm fine with a book about wimps or underwear thrown in every now and then.
11. Every Day is a Holiday by Dean Koontz
12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
13. Attack of the Mutant Underwear by Tom Birdseye

Melani:

10. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
This is a very good book and a quick read. I had started reading it when my mom was in the hospital months ago, but it was her book, and I never got around to finishing it until this week.
11. God's Harvard by Hanna Rosin
Oh, goodness. What do I say? God's Harvard is talking about Patrick Henry University, which was started as a place for mostly homeschoolers to go to learn the fine art of changing the nation. I had a really hard time with a lot of the "homeschoolers do___" and "homeschoolers are____" statements. The over generalizations were hard to handle as someone who would never wish her child to attend Patrick Henry. My homeschool is nothing like the ones described, and I know that more and more homeschoolers are different than those described.

Still, this book was interesting because, as a homeschooler, I am part of that culture in some ways. I know those families, even though they are not in my own homeschooling group. If I go to convention, I hear the words, opt out of those classes, pass by those booths. It was nice to get an inside peek at the type of children some of them are hoping to raise.

I think I will be more careful from now on about associating with our own state's Christian Association of Parent Educators and may even stop my membership with Home School Legal Defense Fund. Our agendas just are not the same.

12. Through the Land of Hyster by Kathy Kelley
Ahh, a lovely book on hysterectomies. It threw me into a mild panic about what I will soon be facing. Do I believe a book written by those who have gone through it in the past or believe my doctor? Were any of those women in the book my age? In shape? I don't really know. My doctor seems to think that I will recover pretty quickly because I'm "really healthy," and I'm going to believe him while still being realistic about the weeks ahead.

Jon:

5. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
6. Generation Me by Jean Twenge