Books 24-28 for the year

[rebl1969]

Recently I have completed the following books:

24: Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity, by Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell. I liked this one. It's very conversational...like your two runner friends are chatting with you about stuff like bras and compression shorts and chafing and dealing with Hell

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[quantumlobster]

Ah, I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a girl, also!

I tried reading Little House in the Big Woods to my oldest a couple of years ago, but I think she was too young then. I may try again when we are done with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We've already gone through The Hobbit and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Although if she had her way, we'd read only Pokemon, Littlest Pet Shop and anything with fairies and/or Barbie. Eck.

[rebl1969]

John has taken Sophie through the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, too, but we haven't started any Tolkien. Sophie enjoyed The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe but was bored silly by Prince Caspian and insisted I stop reading before we even got to the action (which is all at the end). I got her a copy of Little House In The Big Woods for her 6th birthday, since Laura turns 6 in the book, and she really liked that they were the same age. Of course Laura is now much older than six, but she's completely taken with the series. We're reading Farmer Boy now.

On her own, she reads Fancy Nancy and Katie Woo and a bunch of Disney Princess books that her Nana bought for her at Christmas.

[offensive_mango]

Haha, I followed the link to Run Like A Mother and scrolled down to read reviews. The first one I saw started with:

I bought this book with a lot of hope and some trepidation.

But I read:

I bought this book with a lot of dope and some temazipam.

What is wrong with me?!

[rebl1969]

You have pregnancy brain. It's a real thing, and you can't help it.

[staceyloobug]

I have 50/50 on my Audible playlist for long runs. I'm not that optimistic that I will be running 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states, either. But, listening to that crap makes me realize running 14 miles is not that big of a deal and I should woman up.

I also maybe have Run Like A Mother. Is the cover yellow? If so, I have it and I haven't read it yet. Maybe next.

[rebl1969]

Kind of greeny-yellow, it seemed to me, with swirly-whirly shoes on it. Run Like A Mother had the two women switching off as they wrote about the various and sundry topics, and also had sidebars where other women chimed in about how they handled different things. Kind of girly, but not overly so.

I watched the 50/50 documentary "Ultramarathon Man" the other day (netflix has it but not on streaming) and it was AWESOME. Highly recommended. Two thumbs up.