What We’re Reading: Mamas’ Choice Book List!

With Spring Break coming up, we thought it would be fun to ask some of you Motherlode mamas to suggest a few good reads we could take along in a suitcase — or just keep on the bedside table.

Here’s a sampling of your suggestions (click on the book title to go read more about it at Amazon):

Sally: In the past 6 months I’ve finished quite a few books but I liked Jodi Picoult’s book Handle with Care!

Trista: The Lovely Bones (wasn’t impressed with the movie, loved the book) and Lucky: A Memoir, both by Alice Sebold.

Kimberly: Angela’s Ashes a memoir by Frank McCourt, The Great Santini by Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.

Corbett: I just finished reading Same Kind of Different As Me ... FANTASTIC!!! Also… Sheet Music is great for couples struggling in the bedroom!

Savanah: Here’s the first ones to come to mind that I think other mamas may like. I’m a bibliomaniac, though, so there’s plenty more where these came from. Haha!

Believing It All, Or What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life — by Marc Parent (A must read for anyone who’s ever loved a small child!)

An all-time fave, an epic tale– The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Best recent reads– Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen, & The Jewels of Tessa Kent by Judith Krantz 

And a nonfiction that I think every parent should read– Endangered Minds by Jane M. Healy

One more — Paula, by Isabel Allende. It’s a true story, about a woman writing her family history for her daughter– who is in a coma– after she realizes that there are many things that she never got a chance to tell her daughter.

Thanks for all the great book ideas, moms! Whether you’re leaving town for Spring Break or enjoying a stay-cation, we hope you find time for some literary pursuits along with your other adventures. Happy reading!

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