Some Entertainment Is Still FREE

I am currently reading through Stephan King's IT for a .. um... yeah, not sure how many times I've read it now!

One thing I'm doing this year is buying board games for the family to play together. I'm also getting season passes to the local zoo (which I can use at other zoos around the state), and season passes to a museum I love to go to (which also can be used at other ones). That will be the BIG gift for the family this year, instead of buying things they'll just toss aside 2 days later.

I love the idea of a zoo pass. We always buy board games but the passes would be great.

I would love to see a book club, though I am a slow reader. I am currently listening to Terry Goodkind's book Wizard's First Rule, which is a huge book, even on CD (31 hours).

You could start an "official" book club group that assigns a new book every month. Then, you can have people post their reviews on those books to that group or provide a post for them to comment on them.

I also wanted to mention, on the side, something about our state parks here in California. They are suffering, financially and are raising fees, closing activities or implementing fees for things that used to be free.

Wow That is sad about the State Parks. In our state most are still free.

I love listening to Books on CD when we travel.

Our state parks here aren't totally free either. Most have some kind of entrance fee these days.

I used to work at a State Park and even then it was free of course you had to pay to camp but it is still free today. Things sure are changing.

Right now, I am reading The Sword of the Lady by SM Stirling and rereading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan.

Life is so hectic at times that something I used to do regularly, like reading, gets on the back burner. Even when I find some free time, it's hard to restart the reading habit. That being said, a book club on Gather sounds like a perfect match.

Right now I am reading a book called Disguise. I thought it was a memoir, but it is a fiction story.

I just finished reading the last in the Twilight series. I enjoyed it. My husband and I are reading a lot more as opposed to watching TV.

I only read magazines this time of the year, it is so hetic for me.

I dont read.

Our parks are not free, I was shocked when there was a fee!!
It might be free to hike and such, but you need to pay for parking.
Though the best places to go are where people are not and we have lots of government land here that are free :0) Who is going to dare ticket anyone out there?

Reading is a great idea!!

It's too cold here to do much at all outside in the winter. My son thinks it's cold when it's like 40 degrees. It's hard to believe that he was born in North Dakota. ;)

Elliott is almost 4 now, so he's really getting into board games. He has Candy Land, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, and a couple of character games. We also have 3 more in his box of Christmas gifts, so I'm sure they will keep us entertained a lot this winter. ;) There's also a Geo Trax set with some extra stuff coming to him for Christmas, so I'm sure we will play with that together some, too.

As far as reading, I'm getting ready to start reading "Names My Sisters Call Me" by Megan Crane. A few of my friends are reading it, too. We're trying to start a small book club type thing. This is our first book, though, and I think the last two people got it today.

Not really ready anything at the monent ! Probably will get back where I left off on the series Left Behind.

I bought a few books at the library book sale here....and I'll pass them on to others when I'm finished with them.

I'm reading Ted Dekker's Black.

I am reading a Jenn Lancaster book called, " Bitter is the New Black"....I love to read.

I am reading Back to Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson. I bought it at a library book sale for $0.50. I picked up several books there, as well as our our annual museum book sale. I've found a good time to read is when I'm nursing the baby, since he doesn't mind as long as he's fed!

We don't do much outside in the winter (I'm a wimp and hate cold weather) so we will have to find other ways to fill in our walks. Elliott is going to receive a few board games from us and from his maw-maw in Georgia for his birthday and Christmas, so we will be busy with that too. He's also getting two new (well, used from Amazon) books from the "Otto" series by Todd Parr. He LOVES the two he has, so I am sure we will be reading the new ones over and over, in addition to the other books we are constantly reading together.

This time of year is so busy for us, but after the holidays I am going to start Preschooling Elliott regularly. I'm not going to force it on him, but he likes to do his "homework" and I bought character workbooks and flashcards from the Dollar Tree and the $1 spot at Target. I plan to start taking him to story hour at the library too, since they run it during the school year.

Right now I am reading a book by James Patterson " The 6th Target" So far I have enjoyed reading this book. I am almost finished reading it.

"Kim" by Kipling ,one of my books I shoulda' read long ago !

That is a neat idea, unfortunately right now, books are in my budget. :) Hopefully you can get enough people together to do one though.

I am reading 'Something Very Wild' by Mary Zelinsky her second novel.
All the books I have read this year I have gotten from my local library.
This summer I participated in the Adult Reading Summer program and read 10 books.
I enjoy reading and I would like to be part of a book club as long as the book that is chosen is available from the library. I have only shared one book review and I hope to share more with gather members.

I am reading a book now, but I do not join discussion groups since my taste is for science fiction and about space.
Not many go for my general tastes. Unless it is about star wars stuff, and I dropped that once I read that chewabacca died in one book.

I'm still reading my Mary, Queen of Scots book. I feel like I've been reading it forever but I guess because I keep reading other books while I'm reading it. I generally don't post reviews on Gather unless it's for a contest or something. I don't see myself as a good reviewer.