Welcome to More About the Mama Mondays! Today we are talking about one of my most favorite things: Books!
Here’s a list of just a few of my favorite reads:
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers ~
The message of this Redeeming Love is simple: God’s love can save anyone. Even a prostitute named Angel. Truly all of Francine River’s books have been phenomenal. They are each touching and thought provoking.
Other favorites from Francine Rivers include The Last Sin Eater and A Voice in the Wind (The Mark of the Lion Series).
Southern Living Magazine ~
Okay this is not a book but no self respecting Southern lady would be caught dead without a Southern Living Magazine on her coffee table or tucked into her huge pink paisley beach bag. How else would we know which “white cake” we are supposed to be making for Christmas?
Sookie Stackhouse Series ~
Dead Until Dark is the first book in a series of 13 novels about Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, who gets all wrapped up into a mystical world of vampires, werewolves, and fairies.
Please don’t get all weirded out about all the magical stuff. Charlaine Harris’ novels are great stories about love, crazy families, and the choices we make.
Yes, these books are the basis for the HBO Series “True Blood” but they are so much better than the show.
Children’s Picture Books ~
When I was teaching kindergarten my favorite time of the day was story time. Sharing a wonderful story with beautiful illustrations is magical. If you throw in a fancy or silly character voice you have them hooked!
I adore being a Stay-at-Home Mama but there are days that I yearn to be sitting in front a group of five year olds with a picture book in my hands.
The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook by Jane and Michael Stern ~
Along the way to Atlanta there is a small Southern town named Social Circle that is home to one of the best Small Town Restaurants in the South: The Blue Willow Inn.
I am the proud owner of The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook by Jane and Michael Stern. My cookbook was bought over ten years ago when my brother was in vet school at the University of Georgia. Now the pages are speckled with grease and cake batter and the spine is partially broken.
It is full of traditional Southern recipes that are much easier to follow than my grandmother’s “mix up a little of this and add a pinch of that” directions. My favorite recipe is the Macaroni and Cheese!
Trashy Beach Reading Paperbacks ~
I can’t leave off my trashy, beach reading paperback books! See the one on the bottom missing the front cover? Paradise by Judith McNaught is one of my favorite books!
Summertime is just around the corner and I need great books for the beach! Please share your “Oh my goodness you have to read this” favorites with me!
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I am with ya on the trashy beach paperbacks! I am also with you about magazines. I have so many I love to read. I think that I was a southern girl in a past life. My bucket list includes traveling to the south some day. I want to visit where I think I was meant to live ;-). Charleston, Savannah, Texas…….
Put Charleston on the top of your list, girl! We call it the Holy City here in South Carolina. 😉
I actually have the book Paradise, but haven’t read it. I will put it up there on my must reads. I LOVE Southern Living Magazine, there’s not a week goes by that I am not standing in front of the magazine sections looking through magazines buying my favorite ones. Especially, the craft magazines at Joann’s and I love buying new cookbooks!
I love Paradise! You must read it when you have a chance!
~ Ashley
I might need to borrow those Charlaine Harris novels for the beach. I have my beach bag ready to go – just need to add my reads for the week. Hurry up June!!!!
Hey Auntie Sheila! I will set the first Sookie Stackhouse book aside for you. It is very good!
You are right! There is something about reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar to a huge group of five year olds that never gets old. My husband is always saying that I’m great at reading books to Cole and it’s because I had ALOT of practice 🙂
Yes, we have had lots of practice, haven’t we? And I still love it!
Love reading your posts and seeing what an old friend is up to! Just started reading Charlotte’s Web to my Kindergarteners today, I hope they love it. I have read it to my class every year since I have been teaching.
I loved the Sookie Stackhouse books too, I just started the Mortal Instruments. I am really enjoying them, 24 days and counting til the end of the year so and I can read all I want! (Well when my boys let me!)
Hey Casey! Thank you so much for following along and leaving some comment love! So excited that you have read the Sookie Stackhouse books too! My plan is to read the Mortal Instruments this summer. Let me know of any more great books I need to read! 😉
OH MY that cookbook looks divine! Mmm I am hungry right now! LOL I LOVE Elizabeth Hunter’s Elemental Mystery series!
That cookbook is awesome! True Southern food at it’s best.