Over my head

A couple of weeks ago, your Soul Papa built a bookcase to house my nighttime reading. It's above our bed! I couldn't put my cup of tea or requisite glass of water on the bedside table because the stack seemed ever-increasing. I hope you become a bookworm too, it seems to run on my side of the family at least...

While not super clear in this Photobooth photo (above) I lazily took just now, but they are divided into:
Pregnancy/parenting
Various copies of the Dutch magazines Ouders, Kinderen and Zwanger (Parents, Kids and Pregnant)
Baby Love by Robin Barker
Veilig Zwanger by Beatrijs Smulders & Mariël Croon
Babies and Toddlers publication by Access (for foreigners living in the Netherlands)
Baby Signing by Tiny Talk (UK baby sign)
The Pregnancy Bible by Joanne Stone and Keith Eddleman
Pregnancy and Birth Rough Guide by Kaz Cooke
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
How Children Learn by John Holt
Superbaby by Jenn Berman
Various journals for self
one for pregnancy records
one that is blank and ready for me to write in
one for my "I've-awoken-in-the-night-and-have-a-great-idea-and-must-write-it-down"
Middle grade/Young Adult Fiction
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander (LOVING them right now)
Holes by Louis Sachar
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Haold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
I am David by Anne Holm
Writing Inspiration
What if? by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter (writing exercises)
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises  by Ernest Hemingway
Non-Fiction Inspiration
Pip Pip (A Sideways Look at Time) by Jay Griffiths
The Idea of Home by Geraldine Brookes
Other non reading material
Pen
Phone card to call Australia with

N.B. Lying around the house, half leafed through are:
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Critical Thinking Skills by Stella Cottrell
Think by Simon Blackburn
Various Quarterly Essays

Who knows what else lurks in bookcases or in my studio?

Wish me luck reading all this and more before July 3 ... But for now I'm snuggling in with Taran, Eilonwy and friends in The Black Cauldron. So exciting, and wonderful to re-live the fantasy time I spent reading those books more than 20 years ago!

Love, your Soul Mama