Books
I believe books can open up whole new worlds and transform our thinking in beautiful ways.
So here at 71toes.com I love to share my favorite things I’m reading.
I share books from all different categories, from parenting to self help.
Some of my favorite book lists:
–The Best Book Club Books
–Favorite Reads for Children
–Ideas to Get Teenagers Reading
–Favorite Parenting Books to Whip Kids into Shape 🙂
I believe the gift of reading is one of the best things we can give our children.
It’s also the best gift we can give ourselves.
So many more favorites are highlighted in the following posts:
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Four of the Best Parenting Books
A while back Abby asked me what my favorite parenting books were. I searched the blog to find my list to send her. And…
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Some Summer Book Recommendations for You
Somehow amidst all the graduation hoopla the last couple months I listened to so many books. Book club stuff, books that have been on…
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what I learned from “The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”
I learned so much about parenting when I read The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Yow! It has left me really thinking about…
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My Favorite books “with Pages” I Read This Year
Sometimes my hopes get foiled. Life gets in the way as I try to figure out what is good, better and best to do…
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Awe in a Grove of Redwood Trees
I have so much I want to say about two things: 1) A book called The Anxious Generation that we read for book club…
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A Little Book Report on Some Good Books
Oh man you guys, I have to apologize to anyone signed up for my newsletters because my sister let me know today that she’s…
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A Great Summer Read — A Guest Post from my Mom
I’ve read so many good books lately that I’m excited to share as soon as I get my act together. For today, we have…
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An Excellent Book For Dads written by My Brother…in time for Father’s Day!
Welp, I mentioned this in my Utah post, but let’s get to the details. Because my brother Tal wrote a book! A book for…
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ten beautiful quotes from a new favorite book
I want to share ten beautiful quotes from a new favorite book. It’s called Everything Sad is Untrue It is the (mostly) true story…
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two podcasts and a book that make me want to be better
Today I’m sharing two podcasts and a book that have really made me think. I love when people share the good things with me.…
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“A Place Called Home” – a book review
A Place Called Home is the last book I read for book club: I have since missed a couple because I’ve let other things…
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One of the Greatest Gifts we can Give our Children
One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is to provide multiple opportunities for them glean the benefits of reading.
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two good books that sing to the glory of grit
You guys, I never wrote about West with Giraffes. And that’s not good because it was a good one. It took me back to…
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The best way to parent young adults
My parents have always pointed out that there’s no instruction manual when you pack up that tiny newborn in that seemingly gigantic carseat and…
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The Best books for young readers
There’s nothing like finding a good book that will help catapult your child into the classification of “reader.” There’s also nothing like having a…
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baby steps to justification and a book that will make you think
I usually listen to books these days rather than holding a hard copy in my hand (aside from the ones I read with Lucy).…
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A little nudge that led to an incredible “Hiding Place”
There are lots of ups and downs in life. Especially when you’re a teenager. Lucy was in the middle of some tricky emotional navigation…
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speaking of independence: some good books and the 4th
I talked about Lucy working on her independence this summer and other “summer goal” ideas back HERE. (She has taken some new things in…
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a new good read and being curious about ourselves
We just finished and discussed this book for book club: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb. And you know what? I…
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we are quickly losing the idea of a “gentlemen”
Ok I actually don’t think that, because I love witnessing those “true” gentlemen (AND of course “gentlewomen”) in real life. The ones who open…
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favorite Children’s books
I think there are some books every family should have on their book shelves. They are some of my favorite children’s books. I’m sharing…
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The best books for book club discussions
There are some books that make you just want to talk things out! Here’s my list of the best book club books for great…
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how to combat a pandemic of loneliness–the power of one
At first glance this picture isn’t anything special: I mean, it’s grainy, blurry, bad quality. But it melts my heart to look at it.…
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two GOOD books…maybe last-minute gift ideas?
Note: there are affiliate links in this post…which I only use for things I adore and feel cannot be kept to myself! I read…
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grateful for books that make you think
(affiliate links included in this post, but only ever for things I love so much I feel compelled to share!) I am trying to…
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two good (and very different) books
A blog reader asked how I keep track of the books I read. I don’t know how most people do it, but I LOVE…
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opportunities of “Where the Wind Leads”
Some thoughts this 4th of July weekend… Books that make you think The girls and I got busy reading Where the Wind Leads last…
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my 2020 book list
I like to keep track of the books I have read. The good ones have so much power to change me. To change my…
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speaking of listening…
I mentioned back HERE that Dave has some great books he’s read for his classes at Thunderbird that pulled me in to read them…
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midnight library with volumes of choices
What would it be like to have all our life choices to make over again? Would we choose a completely different path? Would we…
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seeing a world without sight
I am so very grateful for the blog reader who shared this book recommendation with me: I don’t know if it would hold the…
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atomic habits and becoming who we want to be, little by little
This book (Atomic Habits) has consumed so much of what I’ve been thinking lately. Because it’s reaffirmed that small things, like “atomic habits” can…
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Two of Lucy’s latest favorite books
Lu and I finished our book (An Old Fashioned Girl) last week and we both loved that thing. (It’s one of Louisa May Alcott’s…
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sisters and Harry Potter
There are lots of things to be sad about with this corona thing, but a serious silver lining over here is sisters. Oh man…
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How to See People’s “true shape in God”
When I took my class on Grace last semester, one thing, among the thousands, that hit me was that our teacher (a therapist) explained…
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my 2019 books
One of my goals last year was to read at least two new books each month. And I’m pretty happy that I DID IT,…
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thoughts on poverty and prosperity
I’ve been thinking a lot about poverty and prosperity lately. It’s something that really, I’ve thought about for as long as I remember. From…
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a few thoughts on a Friday
I have a draft of a post about not coddling our kids I thought I’d share today but I just feel like I want…
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mercy and a peek into the lives of others
I used to commute to work when we lived in D.C. Whether it was riding the metro or driving in the “slugline” (a carpool-type…
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books lately
Ok I have really been holding firm to my goal to read at least two books each month in 2019 and I’m loving it.…
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And There was Light
Last week I shed some tears over this book: Yep, standing there in my bathroom getting ready for the day, listening to the most…
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five thoughts on a Friday
1) First up, we have other college kids besides those ones in Hawaii. Isn’t it weird that word is plural? FOUR college kids because…
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three impactful books full of “nudges” that inspired on our journey in Africa
I have read more books than ever before this summer, and I’m anxious to write and recommend a bunch of them, but there were…
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books, including my new favorite
I’ve mentioned this like 734 times before, but I LOVE a good book. I love how it can make you think. I love how…
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thoughts on real writing and reading
Welp, here we are in the last full week of school over here in the desert. How did that happen? Finals and concerts and…
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brain inspiration
I wrote about “mom inspiration” a few posts ago (about this great “Mom Conference” my sister put on…if you still want to listen to…
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my favorite part from “The Horse and His Boy”
As I mentioned in the last post, the girls and I finished book three in the Narnia series last month. It wasn’t my very…
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good books
I have read some really good books lately. This one, All the Light We Cannot See , was one of the most beautifully written…
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Things I want to remember about reading “The Magician’s Nephew” with Lucy:
We just finished this book: And I want to remember how it felt. How it felt to have her body curled up at my…
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gratitude for the “deeper magic”
Lucy was over-the-moon when her teacher announced that her very own mother got to be one of the chaperones for the third-grade field trip…
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what I learned from “The Giver”
When I read The Giver as a teenager I was mesmerized. It made me think more than any other book I had read before.…
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gems from books…and books ARE gems
Last night as we were settling in for bed Dave smiled at me and told me all my dreams were coming true: our kids…
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Friday Q & A — favorite Christmas books
I’d love to hear more Christmas book suggestions if you have time to share. Our Favorite Christmas Books THIS is one of my very…
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new (old) favorite book
Last year Lucy’s speech therapist introduced her to a new app on her iPad. “The Monster at the End of this Book .” And…
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what I learned from “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
I finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a little while ago: And I can’t stop thinking about it and the lessons I found in…
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a few links to check out
A while back I was asked to help celebrate the anniversary of the “Family Proclamation” (I think this is the second year they have…
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my new fav. book
So I am what you could call a “book club slacker” these days.I haven’t read the assigned book for months. Some day I will…
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good books
I have come back to the present. After taking a two-day hiatus from being present in the lives of my family, I finished listening…
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Age-specific Jobs For Kids – A “parenting breakthrough”
I think most parents ask this question: “What are some age-specific jobs for kids?” I mean, we want them to work. But what are…
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good books
I just finished such a good book:…and I have to recommend it. The writing in this thing is out of this world. The words…
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book reviews
If you have kids, read this book with them. Better yet, listen to the audio CD. (We listened to it on all our long…
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