[speaker001:] okay well uh some of the books I've read lately have to do with crafty type things where I've where I've um learned things that I'm going to do for my children for Christmas
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and they were really uh helpful because I didn't know how to do this one stitching and so that was very helpful to me as far as books otherwise um I like to read children's books and things like that what about you
[speaker002:] oh goodness well I was an English major so I like to read period
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] uh lately I've been on the whole very practical and uh I'm trying uh to to uh furnish a home
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] so I've been looking at I'm not sure reading is the word but looking at books on uh antiques and paintings and uh interior decoration hints
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh lots of books on plants and and and gardens because we started a garden
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and things things like that and so I've been doing very little reading except I I did finally dip into a couple of biographies um all of sort of literary figures of this century
[speaker001:] uh-huh it's interesting that you said that my husband and I had uh took a book out of the library about gardening too and started a garden a fall garden
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um with
[speaker002:] good for you I haven't gotten around to that
[speaker001:] oh yeah and our our uh cantaloupes and and um peppers and tomatoes are on right now so it's been really fun and and we learned that you know um some of the gardening skills we had were before but some of them we learned from a book
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so that was helpful to us now I've read two books uh that were uh nonfiction lately and uh
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] I well one was nonfiction and one was fiction and the fiction one uh was about a boy in uh during the time of Adolf Hitler
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and he grew up and lived through a concentration camp
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and that was not enjoyment that that was too realistic and really um mind
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] a real eye opener uh and I guess it's good to read those things too uh but I didn't enjoy it necessarily
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh the other one was quite enjoyable it was uh about a a Chinese lady and her generations down her what happened to her family through the years
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so that one was good I think all of uh well even if they're not enjoyable they bring you uh a some kind of of learning so even if it's the country that they're from or anything like that so I I I like to read the the children's books I think that's the most animated and imaginative so I like those a lot
[speaker002:] uh what are your favorite children's books
[speaker001:] oh there are a couple of Newbery Award winners uh A Wrinkle in Time is one and I don't know if you've ever read that but but um
[speaker002:] um-hum no
[speaker001:] oh there's one about an Indian girl and I can't think of that Island of the Blue Dolphins is another
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and that's a good one now some of the ones that have just received the awards this year I haven't read and I would like to read those
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh it's funny because I've read some from like nineteen twenty three and nineteen forty five and things like that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I didn't enjoy those as much and I don't know if it's just because they didn't come from my era or what but uh
[speaker002:] that's interesting I I I well I mean you can't be an English major major unless you like reading things from the past
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so I've read a a great deal of old things I tend to go go back I don't have any children
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so I don't read the new ones but I occasionally if no one's looking
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] dip into something like Winnie the Pooh or
[speaker001:] uh-huh no even that's good
[speaker002:] or uh uh the the Grimm's Fairy Tales or something like that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um just because it's sheer magic
[speaker001:] yeah uh my children and I uh I started a thing where I read a book with them before they went
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] to bed at night and there was one called The Pig Princess and it was a a princess from a long long time ago and she came through a a spell kind of thing and ended up in a pig um sty and the people that she came to were just
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] farm people and she didn't understand them and they didn't understand her but it came together in this book and it was really a lot of fun
[speaker002:] yes yes I think that uh we we