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Today’s TBR Tuesday theme was fun for me to research: I searched my Goodreads shelves for books with the words Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How in the title. For each prompt, I picked two books from my TBR list and two that I’ve already read and enjoyed. Here’s my list:
WHO
To Read:
+ The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
+ Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Have Read:
+ The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
+ Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Sally Clarkson
WHAT
To Read:
+ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
+ What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro
Have Read:
+ You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
+ What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
WHEN
To Read:
+ When All is Said by Anne Griffin
+ When I Fell from the Sky by Juliane Koepcke
Have Read:
+ When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood
WHERE
To Read:
+ Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
+ Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Have Read:
+ Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
+ This is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick
WHY
To Read:
+ Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter O. Gray
+ Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
Have Read:
+ Why Can’t We Just Play?: What I Did When I Realized My Kids Were Way Too Busy by Pam Lobley
HOW
To Read:
+ How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez
+ How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art by Elizabeth Lev
Have Read:
+ Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids – and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
+ How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature by Scott D. Sampson
A lot of these sound very interesting!
How was The Girl who Smiled Beads? I have been meaning to read it.
Also wondering what your thoughts were on Glow Kids. What would you give as a summary of that book? I’m thinking I should buy it as our third boy will be getting a phone soon, and I am just feeling so ill equipped to be parenting through this whole cell phone/social media time period. So overwhelming!
Both books were really, really good. (I think I gave them both 4 stars?) Glow Kids was VERY thought-provoking and really set me on a path of less screens…or more accurately, a more intentional focus on balancing screens with “real world” no screen exposure. It was a process and required a lot of heart work for me….am I throwing screens at the kids so that they’ll be quiet and I can have five minutes to myself? Am I turning a blind eye to constant gaming because I’m avoiding the conflict and/or fight? It was a convicting book and definitely motivated me to be a better mother in this area. I’d love to hear your thoughts if you read it.