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I have noted some mums here who have shared that they have children who are what would be considered voracious readers. Mums like Jen, (of the sail boat  ) and Meredith and Linda (cfa..)have children who they are hard pressed to keep in books. Who else out there has this situation? I'd love to know
So for mums of bookaholics what would be the average amount of books your child/children reads per week? How long does it take them to read a book? How do you manage to keep them in supply? How many of your children are voracious readers? What are they reading? Do they do anything written related to their readings?
My dd14 reads on average 10 books per week, she has been known to read more. She can read a novel in 2-3hours, for her birthday she read three of the older Bethlehem books before tea. I am reaching a problem now as our library is not good in the fiction department, and I am running out of books for teenagers. Dd doesn't write anything about her readings. Should I require her to? My other children are readers but not to this extent.
We are pleased in many ways to have a child like this but it does provide a challenge to the wallet.
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My kids are voracious readers. On average, the 11 yr old probably reads two or three novels a week. She finished David Copperfield in 11 day, Jane Eyre in less than two. My 9 yr old can read about four shorter novels, such as Johnny Tremain or The Black Arrow.
My little readers are just taking off with chapter books. They are 7 and 5. The 5 yr old can outread the 7 yr old. They will curl up on the couch for hours. The 7 yr old just finished Baby Island in about 3 days. My 5 yr old knocks out American Girl type books in 2 days.
We are doing Sonlight this year, so that will keep the younger three pretty busy, with some Medieval books thrown in for ds 9. My 11 yr old has been raiding my mother's overflowing bookshelves, picking out Dickens, Austen, Bronte and Poe. She should be content for a while since she enjoys a broad range of books.
One author that I was quite surprised to have really liked is Louis L'Amour. My older son and I both read The Lonesome Gods when ds was about 13. It is an excellent book! I went on to read some of his others. None were quite that good, but very enjoyable and clean.
Ds 16 really doesn't read much anymore, but he used to. He loved Les Miserables when he was your daughter's age. Now he only reads what he has to for school, or when there is nothing else to do, like on vacation.
Interesting thread!
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Oh, and my kids, at this point, don't do any writing related to their reading. I am working particularly on narrations, including written ones. They certainly do a lot of talking about what they read though.
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My 12 yold dd read the latest Harry Potter, it's like 700-something pages, within 5 hours. I don't know how she does it. But here is a side question...are any of your kiddos having eyesight problems? My dd, who reads like this A LOT, and would do it ALL the time if we'd let her, has galloping myopia and has terrible vision. My dh blames it completely on the reading, there is some genetic predisposition...but nothing this bad.
Anyways...it's hard to keep her going with things she has NOT read. She has reread things so many times because we can't keep up. I have a good friend who was an English major in college and took a lot of children's lit classes and the two of us have similar censoring minds...so I get a lot of recommendations from her.
I think the book store is awful with books for this preteen/teen age. It's like looking at soft porn almost with those romancey covers  Luckily my dd has no interest for love interest stories...not enough action she says. And you are right, we're hitting that upper age where the library doesn't have much decent either.
I am doing the Kolbe literature program for middle schoolers this year, so I'm hoping that'll provide some writing assignments for the reading. Every now and then I have her do some sort of a book report for one of the books she has read.
At one point I tried to get her (when she was like 3rd grade) to write a little snipet/summary of each book she read in a journal...so she'd always remember what books she had read...but because she goes through them like water...it was too much work and began to take the fun out of reading.
None of my other dc read like this. My 5th grade ds reads without complaint. But he isn't going at it like she does. The other kiddos so far aren't showing much more interest in reading than what mom assigns.
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My oldest DS loves to read. He reads any chance he gets. I was also this way. Thus said, I limit his reading time (he gets an hour during the day for inside freetime and an hour at bedtime) and we also make him read some books slowly (he is only allowed to read one chapter a day in certain books). I do this because I want him to spend time doing other things that wouldn't be his first choice. If he reads, he isn't spending time with his siblings but if he is forced to not read, he will play board games with them, ride a bike, etc...
As a child I developed a bad habit of "wolfing" down books. I couldn't go to sleep until the book was finished. I didn't get a lot of sleep the night I read "Gone With the Wind"! I want ds to get use to having to put a book down.  I also think one misses things when they read so quickly and desperately!
A voracious reader will truly read anything. I remember reading my mom's parenting books when I was a child! I have picked up a lot of history/science books through the years plus the classics. DS has been "forced" to read many books that wouldn't be his first choice just because he had nothing else handy and was desperate for a book!
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All my boys are voracious readers ( wonder where they got that habit? ).
But my 14 yo is the biggest reader right now. About a novel a day, plus numerous non fiction books.We use the Sonlight booklists a lot for this son.
I, too, tell the kids to stop reading and go outside and play, bike, shoot some hoops, do a workout, whatever. I am just very aware of the need for physical exercise, as a habit, in each day.
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My 12yos is a voracious reader- the finish Harry Potter (final one) in a day type. He also wolfs down books. His sister, 10, for whom reading has just become enjoyable, takes about 20 hours for one of the slimmer Harry Potters- but she remembers EVERYTHING that she has read. Word. For. Word. 12yo book worm devours them so quickly (like his mom) that he is not so careful!!
I use the Sonlight booklists, Greenleaf booklists, the Newbery booklist etc. but he also is very good at going into the library (we live in Winnipeg with a great library) and gravitates to more classics (Love, love, love this about this guy  ) and great books. Also if we find an author we really like, ie. Rosemary Sutcliff, we order a bunch from interlibrary loan.
I commented to a friend last month that if we didn't live with such a great library nearby I would either be broke (or broker ) or have a very grumpy son!
Oh yes, and my son also finds lots of books at The Baldwin Project
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my dd inhales books. ANything picture books chapterbooks
earlier in the week i found her with a book entitled- "Soil- an in depth look"
Interesting reading
She is six and i dont know what level she is reading at this week she finished the first Mary Poppins book in about a day.
I have to say at least a dozen times a day "WILL YOU PLEASE STOP READING!"
she always has a book in hand- she learned to bounce the baby with her feet so she wouldnt have to put it down.
our biggest problem is finding books that are challenging but not inappropriate to her age/sensibilities.
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My 15 and 13 are both voracious readers - 8 - 10 books per week when I'm not making them do Biology or other stuff they don't like. It is almost all on history or historical fiction. My 10 yo doesn't like reading literature or history but he has read everything I have in my house on science. I'm hard pressed to find things for him as his science knowledge has outpaced his math abilities. I did pick up some biographies of scientists to strew in the hopes of expanding the horizons a bit but so far no go. None of mine do much related to the books unless you count making weapons resembling those of the time period (our house looks like an armory) or various experiments, growing projects - nothing in writing.
Most of the books selected are on their passion. I order tons every year, we go to the bookstore, the library (friends of the library usually has better books) and coordinate with a friend where our children exchange books. Right now we are in a lull because I haven't gotten new books in a while - and Biology is taking over temporarily. We loved the Bethlehem books but have pretty much read them all - some many, many times. We are mostly into WWII and have been for the past year. We recently have run through books written by Stephen Ambrose on Airborne. My son is reading the same time period but the recollections of German pilots.
The older they get, the harder I find it to find really good books because their focus is narrow, though they read everything on their focus that they can find that is appropriate. Our problem is the language and some of the war time recollections get too much into what kind of trouble the soldiers got into when they were in downtime and bored and the language is often very, very rough - not appropriate reading for the age.
My dd can read a good 200 pager in a day if it is riveting and I don't make her put it down. We have had to get really observant at night as she was sluggish during school hours due to staying up past 2AM reading. She now knows there is a curfew - but I still spot check as we all lose track of time when we are reading.
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Erin wrote:
*So for mums of bookaholics what would be the average amount of books your child/children reads per week?
Wow! I don't even know where to begin to answer your first question (neither does my dd). She said she will track it for a week and see.
*How long does it take them to read a book?
I know she reads a book like Lord of the Rings in about 2-3 hours. If it were me (I love to read) it would take me days!
*How do you manage to keep them in supply?
$$$$$ I buy every book I can from the different Catholic curriculums out there. She reads them over and over again in between library trips. When she was little, I had a requirement when we made our library trips. She had to pick 10 biographies, 10 history, 10 science and her own selections. She learned quite a bit. We found the biographies to be our favorites because they always led to rabbit trails. She learned soooooooo much more through biographies than anything else. When she would read a book an author she had read about wrote, it meant that much more to her. That has been a real jewel in our homeschooling journey.
*How many of your children are voracious readers?
She would be my only varocious reader. My next son reads well and quite a bit, but not like her. I have always thought she was such an avid reader because she grew up without a tv. We are doing remidial phonics with our next son. He has really struggled.
*What are they reading?
Look at any highschool, college reading list. She is there.
*Do they do anything written related to their readings?
Hmmm. I am a pretty relaxed homeschooler. I don't require them to write on specifics. She does write daily however and I *know* her vocabulary and use of words is based on her reading. They literally dance off the pages (she didn't get that from me  ).
*I am reaching a problem now as our library is not good in the fiction department, and I am running out of books for teenagers. Dd doesn't write anything about her readings. Should I require her to?
I believe you will get a different answer depending on what schooling method you follow. Personally, I make use of a lot of narrations. I used to write her narrations down when she was little. I ended up rewriting the book  . I just let her and the others tell the story back to me. I just couldn't keep up. Classical Education will tell you to write what you read. Unschooler will tell you to write what you like. Traditional schooler will tell you to write what they assign. May be wrong on all this. Who knows.
Here again, it depends on what method you adhere to. That question is for you and your hubby.
I will say this, we were one of those towns hit by the double whammy hurricanes in Louisiana 2 years ago. First we hosted thousands of evacuees, then we became evacuees ourselves. What was loaded up in the car...books, books, books. 
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| One author that I was quite surprised to have really liked is Louis L'Amour. My older son and I both read The Lonesome Gods when ds was about 13. It is an excellent book! |
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It certainly sounds like all of your children are voracious readers, thanks for the tip on L'Amour, I hadn't considered him.
KackyK wrote:
My 12 yold dd read the latest Harry Potter, it's like 700-something pages, within 5 hours. I don't know how she does it. But here is a side question...are any of your kiddos having eyesight problems? My dd, who reads like this A LOT, and would do it ALL the time if we'd let her, has galloping myopia and has terrible vision. My dh blames it completely on the reading, there is some genetic predisposition...but nothing this bad.
Anyways...it's hard to keep her going with things she has NOT read. She has reread things so many times because we can't keep up. I have a good friend who was an English major in college and took a lot of children's lit classes and the two of us have similar censoring minds...so I get a lot of recommendations from her.
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Kacky, does your dd have a good night lamp to read by? Our optometrist recommended to have it right behind their shoulders so that it wasn't casting any shadows on their page. My lil sister needs glasses now as she was soo bad she not only read by flashlight but also by moonlight!!
By dd loves to reread many of her books. I believe she read all of the Little House books at least three times. Not only that but she always has a stack by her bed of rereads where she goes back and rereads her favourite parts
I have found these older years a bit more of a stretch also, actually 11 wasn't too bad but 14 is more challenging. Dd isn't into Jane Austen type books yet, she finds them silly  maybe in a couple of years she'll be ready. At present she is reading RL Stevenson and RM Ballntyne as that's about all I have left in the house she hasn't read.
humanevitae wrote:
My oldest DS loves to read. He reads any chance he gets. I was also this way. Thus said, I limit his reading time (he gets an hour during the day for inside freetime and ... I do this because I want him to spend time doing other things that wouldn't be his first choice. If he reads, he isn't spending time with his siblings but if he is forced to not read, he will play board games with them, ride a bike, etc...
As a child I developed a bad habit of "wolfing" down books. I couldn't go to sleep until the book was finished. I didn't get a lot of sleep the night I read "Gone With the Wind"! |
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I was also a big reader, although not as fast as dd. I read in all spare moments, I was one of those geeky kids who hung out in the school library during lunch hour. I wasn't balanced but I have to say dd is far more so, she plays sport, and hikes in the bush etc, although I have noticed her siblings complaining lately that she is not playing with them enough, but then some of that can be an age stage.
You didn't read Gone with the Wind in one night did you?! I remember that book took me five days of reading through the night and lunch hours. I can remember finishing it, I was standing in the schoolyard where the 11th graders ate being SO mad, I was not happy with the ending.
Ah Leonie, so is it genetic or environment?
Kristie, Thanks for the heads up on Baldwin, I hadn't considered that option. So are you downloading them or buying the hard copy? If you download do you just spiral bind them or have you thought of a more attractive way?
Maggie, I like that 'my dd inhales books' Gee she is certainly young to have this 'condition'
ALMom wrote:
Most of the books selected are on their passion. I order tons every year, we go to the bookstore, the library (friends of the library usually has better books) and coordinate with a friend where our children exchange books. Right now we are in a lull because I haven't gotten new books in a while ....
The older they get, the harder I find it to find really good books because their focus is narrow, though they read everything on their focus that they can find that is appropriate |
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This is the thing, I'm going to have to start ordering and the cost is staggering. I've actually started praying about it, asking God for somebody to donate books to me, or next time there is a book sale that I find a REALLY GREAT haul, or the opshops have some great finds. A friend and I often co-ordinate our Bethlehem orders (they cost on average $20 in aust) so we can swap.
I am finding it harder as she gets older for things that are appropriate, I'm not too certain where to steer her you've made me think what is dd's passion? I'm not too certain she yet has one, she will still read very widely. Do all dc develop a passion?
Linda, LOTR in 2-3 hrs!!!! Now you've given me another idea, biographies!! We don't have a lot but that is one thing our library has a few off, and I think some decent ones. Well my dd grew up without a tv/video for the first nine years of her life, and essentially even now our tv only goes on one night a week.
Well it is really reassuring to read that no one is recommending writing regards the reading, I am feeling more relaxed about it all now.
How on earth did your town host 'thousands' of evacuees?? Did you manage to save all of your books? 
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All of my children have been voracious readers, although my older son didn't learn to read until he was 12 - visual and auditory reception difficulties. My 10 yo reads a book of his choosing, a read aloud with me and a bedtime read with dh per day. I try hard to get him to go outside and play but often find him in his room reading instead of dressing, sleeping or playing. I require no written work as that would immediately kill all pleasure (writing is hard for him). Two years ago, he was diagnosed as 1 point off legal blindness, now he is 1/2 a point from it. It could be the torch light reads after bedtime, but I think it is just natural degeneration. Carpe Deum!
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My kids are all voracious readers (as is Mom) -- if they're not playing they're reading. I honestly have a hard time keeping up with them -- last month when I was busy organizing and decluttering I relaxed the book-borrowing a bit and let them borrow books for themselves -- big mistake. They read books like Spy Gear and Spiderman. Yikes! So now we're back to Mom choosing.
Every week I pick a book/list to borrow from -- A Landscape with Dragons, Macbeth's lists, Elizabeth's, DYOCC, Our Father's House, Bethlehem Books, Alicia Van Hecke's History list, Sonya Romen's RCHistory, Honey for a Child's Heart, The Read-Aloud Handbook, TWTM, etc. I just request as much as my library will allow me to request (15 books or so) then I put a bunch in their baskets and strew the rest in the living room. Every month whatever's left from the school budget that's spent on curriculum or supplies goes to books the library doesn't have.
The 16-yo has slowed down quite a bit (though she still finished HP7 in one night) because she chews and digests the books better (she's also reading and taking notes on "How to Read a Book"), it's my boys that I'm really having trouble keeping up with.
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Just found this thread. My oldest is a voracious reader and will gladly read 5-6 hours a day if he's got a good book. If he has a supply, he can read up to 10 books a week, unless they are the giant ones, like Harry Potter or The Belgariad - those will slow down his consumption.
He is constantly frustrated because I can't keep enough good books in the house. I don't like to turn him loose in the library, because he will choose fantasy and more fantasy, and I'm sorry, I'm not pre-reading fantasy books and I can't trust the content. So my husband will pre-read those, but at a pretty slow pace. We also go to the Guide to Christian Fantasy website for help. One thing he does is re-read a lot - he has read the Narnia series many times, and the HP books many times, and he will read LOTR many times, I'm sure, although he just finished the series for the first time over the summer.
I do buy a lot of books for him, and I come home from homeschooling conference with BAGS of books (like 50 or so each year). I can usually trust those sources for clean books.
He doesn't write on everything, but I will sometimes have him write a few paragraphs of summary or do a standard book report. But this would be maybe one out of every 20 books he reads.
Interestingly, my next child, who can read, does not enjoy reading. It's too early to tell for the others. I can look back and see that ds was going to be a big reader, based on how much he LOVED to be read to as a young child. We would read to him for multiple hours a day, and he would listen to chapter books way before he could read, and be begging for more.
It's interesting to read about other kids like this, because ds seems kind of strange! Sometimes we get worried that he is missing out on life and living his entire life through books.
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Erin, I can't tell you how many times I've set down to write here and been called away! Yes, my dd is a voracious reader as was I and all my sisters, the whole family really. I've been browsing Ambleside's House of Education for book ideas for this year (that link is to year 7). This year I think we're going for the hefty classics, I found a beautiful copy of Ben-Hur to start the year off but we lost it to my sister instead (the 18 year old who's visiting) She's "previewing" it.
Dd loves series, so I'm on the lookout now for Sir Walter Scott's Waverly Novels. Anyone read any of them? Any we absolutely shouldn't miss?
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I have several voracious readers -- perhaps just "hungry" because their pace is a bit slower than your daughter's. Still, they most often read several books a week.
I am a believer in rereading! I try to keep a preponderance of the classics around the house because I hope that the kids will have large sections of the classic books nearly memorized, as I did when I was growing up. My mom and dad bought me the best literature -- the Ambleside sort -- and I spent many hours of my childhood that way. The quality of my reading went way downhill when I started choosing for myself (around junior high, when the school library stocked "kid pleaser" type trash) so now that I am the parent I try to still guide my kids as they get older, until I see they are taking on the standards for themselves.
We like series around here. If we find a good author -- it's better than a treasure chest.
And there are various booklists online -- Stef mentioned most of the ones I refer to often.
I use homeschooling to try to broaden out their range a bit. I "assign" books that I think they would enjoy but might not simply pick up and read for themselves. Nature study, biographies, historical fiction. Many times they've found new favorites that way.
I don't normally require them to write about their reading. We do often have informal discussions.
About keeping them in supply -- the library is a big help.
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I'm back at this stage, dd14 has spent the last two weeks doing nothing but reading (holidays here) Last night she actually talked to me! She really has been on a serious binge, yesterday I shooed her out of the house and said she needed fresh air. She headed into the bush with a bag of books What has she been reading? Trixie Belden I'm packing them up before we resume lessons and they are going back into storage. Balance is needed here.
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Well the twaddle went back into the shipping container but she still is binging!! She has just re-read (yes Willa she is a big re-reader) all the LM Montgomery and the Katy books and... Is this normal for 14yr olds?? I have a memory of reading lots at this age. Should I just let her do it or should I .. do what??
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Yes! My dd (almost 9) is a voracious reader. She plows through two to three twaddle novels per day as well as the 45 minutes of good reading I assign her. My eye doctor confirmed that too much work close up will produce myopia. Maria's vision is terrible.
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Mom to Maria 98, Gerald 01, Benedict 03 and Micah 06
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4Real Forums : Living Literature
Topic: Calling all mothers of voracious readers
