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March 28, 2016 by: Shell

A Read for Mom and a Read for a Tween

This week’s suggested reads includes one that you should make a part of your daily routine and one that my tween is obsessed with. I was sent Mindfulness A to Z to review, but found Ulysses Moore in the library. Links below are Amazon affiliate, if you’re interested in buying these!

Mindfulness A to Z: 108 Insights for Awakening Now by Arnie Kozak, PhD  “Mindfulness is about paying attention to our life as it unfolds, moment-by-moment.” I’ll admit that sometimes, I’m just going through the motions, trying to get through the day. Mindfulness A to Z provides insight on how different challenges or moments in our lives can be examined more closely or handled in a different way.

While I usually read a book straight through, this book is best read in small sections, giving you time to process what’s being said. It’s broken down into 108 short sections(each 1-3 pages) so it’s easy to read in bits as part of a daily reflection. Topics covered include FOMO, effort, compassion, procrastination, and so much more. You could choose to read them in order or look for a topic that’s speaking to you that day. Distraction, which talked about hating to be unplugged, really spoke to me this past weekend, the start of our Spring Break.

Worth noting: while I called this a “read for mom,” it’s not mom-specific or even woman-specific, but simply what this mom is reading.

Ulysses Moore #1: The Door to Time series. I found this series in our library for my tween. He’s all about Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and the like. Some of the books he reads are skewing more Young Adult than middle grades. Which is fine… but sometimes those books touch on topics that I don’t really want him getting into as an eleven year old(I’m okay with all the death in The Hunger Games but not the romance/sex in some of the YA dystopian books). This one looked interesting so I had him try it and he loved it! Apologies for the small image- I’m a big fan of getting books back to the library as soon as we’re done with them and in my rush to not get a library fine, I didn’t get a pic first. If I had thought about it, I would have kept it out and had my 9 year old read it, too. I think he’d enjoy it as well. 

His description of one of the books: “Two kids and their friend stumble upon a door in their house that can make them go back in time where the old owner of their house has mysteries for them to solve. They’ve gone back in time to Egypt and have to get the map before the bad guy gets it.”

The main characters are boy/girl twins so this book could appeal to both boys and girls. Mysteries, puzzles, codes… my son is hooked. The only problem we’re running into is that the first in the series was published in English (the author is Italian) back in 2006 and you have to dig to find these books. But, according to my son, it’s a must to find them all(there are 13 in the series). We’ve had some luck at the library, Amazon, ebay, and even Barnes and Noble’s site.

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Welcome to Things I Can't Say: Tips and Tales from an Introverted Mom. I'm Shell. Boy mom, beach girl, bookworm, ball games, baker, brand ambassador, Thinking yoga, food, and travel should start with "b," too. Finding the easiest way to do some things while overthinking so many others. Read More…

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