I decided to finally start reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown last week. I only say "finally" because I bought the book soon after it was released while we were in Korea. I must have been ordering from Amazon, read about the book, and ordered it. I was in the middle of something else when it arrived so I loaned it to someone. By the time they finished I was on to something else so I loaned it out again. Then Craig read it. Then once I was pregnant, the only thing I read was pregnancy books. Then parenting books. And now when I sat down to read the book at last I found myself prepared to not like it because of all of the hype. Nope, I got hooked into it, too. I wouldn't say it was the best book ever, but as countless others before me have stated: it was a page turner.
Mathilda by Roald Dahl was a book that Sharon had sent to Anna for a birth-day gift. I started reading it aloud to Anna while rocking her in her room during part of her "sleep training" last year. We almost finished it but suddenly Anna was able to fall asleep on her own and I didn't have to spend time in her room waiting. Of course this is a children's book, but I had never heard of it before. It was cute although I think Anna will enjoy it more when she is older (8 years old, says the back of the book) than I did at 28/29!
