My husband had a bit of breakfast envy this morning when he saw what I was eating.
I often offer to make breakfast for my hubby, but today he passed on banana oats and made eggs for himself instead. I guess he didn’t think my oatmeal would turn out so delicious. Poor guy.
In the mix:
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup vanilla soy milk
- 1 banana
- Walnuts
- Chia seeds
- Raisins
Midway through eating my banana oats, I added a big spoonful of Teddie Peanut Butter to the mix. I just can’t eat oatmeal without nut butter now.
Memorable School Books
Last night, when I was unpacking and organizing the stuff from my mom’s house, I stumbled upon an old copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s from 1960, so I have a feeling it might be my mom’s book. Maybe she read it in school?
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. It’s also one of the most memorable books that I read in high school.
I also really enjoyed A Separate Peace and The Great Gatsby. Both of them were memorable books for me too.
Question of the Day
What is the most memorable book you read in school?
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I loved Catcher in the Rye and still do!
My favorite book ever is “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”. I have a really old copy that I love! I’m actually currently looking for an old copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, too-how funny you found one!
The reading list for my son’s high school is becoming a bit more modern now, this year he had to read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I do encourage him to read the classics.
My high school favorite is A Separate Peace as well! But, my pre-high school fav is The Giver. I can reread that book anytime!
my favorite book ever is the great gatsby. i have one of my parents copes from school and i’ve read it at least eight times.
I have crazy book envy!! I loove To Kill a Mockingbird and have always wanted to find a sweet looking older copy of it but haven’t had any luck yet. What a good book! Now it makes me want to go and read it again.
Those oats do look delicious! I don’t think I can do oats without nut butter anymore either.
i loved To Kill a Mockingbird, but my favorite was definitely The Jungle by Upton Sinclair…raw, moving, and definitely taught me a lot about a culture I’ve never seen!
I love that cover on To Kill A Mocking Bird. My favorite book that we had to read was Things Fall Apart. Though when we were reading most books they weren’t fun, but at then end it was a fun accomplishment.
The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books also! F. Scott Fitzgerald is actually my favorite author. He has some great short stories as well! Oh, now I feel like reading!
To Kill a Mockingbird’s definitely a memorable book. But I also remember The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mainly the part where he tried to trick his friend into whitewashing the fence because he didn’t feel like doing it.
All very good books–I especially loved A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird. I also liked Lord of the Flies, as creepy as it was
Gosh, there are so many. One of the most memorable during high school was probably Brave New World. I lived in a super small town and it really gave me a new perspective, plus it was just awesome.
In college I had the privilege of taking a lot of African American and African literature courses and the texts I read for those classes truly changed my life – Unburnable, Mama Day, Pictures of a Dying Man, just to name a few. There is so much of the world I didn’t know before I read those works.
I think my most memorable book was The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. I actually had to read it in 8th grade and 11th grade, and both times it was better than I expected.
oooo my favorites were definitely Frankenstein, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Sooo good! Frankenstein was my absolute favorite though. It was sad.
I loved “Mice and Men”, “The Great Gatsby” and believe it or not, Pearl Buck’s, “The Good Earth”. I say the last one with a bit of surprise because I remember it being SO long and that it was party of my summer reading requirements. I mean who wants to read a long book like that during the summer months??? But, I really enjoyed it once I got into it.
The Things They Carried was a great book in High School.
That and naturally, Lord of the Flies!
It’s so funny you mention old school books. I just love old books and I just posted about one last week that my kids are obsessed with…. http://tinyurl.com/2arugh8 if you’re interested:)
The most memorable book I read in high school was a summer reading book for a humanities class my senior year – The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It’s hands down my favorite book; it’s one of the few books I know of that everyone who reads it LOVES it! I also really loved The Catcher in the Rye. Oh, Holden Caulfield!
All the books you mentioned are great. To Kill a Mocking Bird is an all time favorite of mine. Atticus Finch actually inspired me to go to law school and I try to re read it yearly. My other favorite books were the Great Gatsby, Taming of the Shrew, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Sister Carrie.
Oh no… oats without nut butter? That’s not even right.
The Great Gatsby was a good one for me, but I also loved Candide by Voltaire.
My favorite book that I read in high school was The Great Gatsby
I’m so intrigued with the 20′s!
The Great Gatsby (I read it every couple years!), and The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison. Beautiful, albeit tragic, book–very memorable.
all three are such great choices. it’ll always be catcher in the rye for me. don’t care how much people say it’s dated, the sentiment of teenage isolation will never change.
btw, i’m now a high school english teacher. ;P
In the process of re-reading The Great Gatsby, love it!
I loved The Great Gatsby!
I’m envious of your breakfast and that awesome copy of the book–looks so cool!
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my most memorable books…as well as The Crucible
Where the Red Fern Grows…makes me cry to this day.
My most memorable book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair!!! It gave me mental images that I will never be able to shake!!!
I have been reading for pleasure since I was listening to books on tape before I could even read what was on the page. And yet I don’t think I can name a single book I liked in school.
I think it is because I could never sit back and fully enjoy the story. I was too busy trying to memorize names of characters, what order things happened in, and what the symbolism might be for the test.
I know what you mean about having nut butter on oats. It just doesn’t taste the same without it!
My most memorable book from grade school is “The Giver”. It’s one that I remember vividly!
To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite book! I wish I had an older copy like that. How cool.
Lord of the Flies was my favorite high school read. I could barely make it through To Kill a Mockingbird, luckily it was also my best-friend’s favorite so she helped me through it.
i had an awesomely progressive teacher in high school that made us read catch-22. it was mindblowing to read something that absurd at 17. but i agree with @Natalie: the giver was one of my favorite books EVER.
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A Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird, hands down, is my favorite book of all time. And you and I must have identical book tastes because I LOVED both The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. Nothing compares to TKAM though…
I LOVE book recommendations!!! Please add this component on a regular basis!!
I loved J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories.” I also remember really getting into “Revolutionary Road” but that it made me really angry! Gatsby is one of those books I’ve read over and over since the tenth grade : )
While I read this in college- “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien- absolutely amazing. Completely impacted me,
Definitely Cather in the Rye. I’ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird, but may have to now after reading all these comments.
Best childhood book, Matilda, hands down!
Books are one of my main loves in my life! I agree with all of your commenters above! I will add: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Bridge To Terabithia, The Root Cellar and The Lottery. I have read independent of school curriculums my entire life, and tend to gravitate towards “True” stories of resilience, strength and perseverance. I loved “Infidel”, “The Long Way Gone” by Baeh,Darfur Diaries, They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky, War Journal, Princess by Jean Sasson- basically anything having to do with Darfur, Sudan, Pakistan, the Middle East, Asia (Geisha). There are so many life changing books! Thank you for reminding us to reach into our pasts, and rediscover these!
“A Separate Peace” and “Of Mice and Men” were both memorable, and I read them for class. And “Hamlet.” We read it in senior English and I loved that play … it’s still my favorite of Shakespeare’s tragedies. (“Taming of the Shrew” is my fave comedy, probably because I saw it onstage in Stratford-upon-Avon, put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company. That was amazing.)
One of the most memorable books I read outside of class was “Gone With the Wind.” I read it in seventh grade (and was most put out with the movie because Ashley wasn’t as handsome as the one in my head). I spent years wanting to live in a refurbished plantation house in Georgia, with a black cat named Rhett, a white one named Ashley and a tiger-striped Scarlett.
we read that book in grade 10 and it was so good then as it still is today reading it. one of the most poinant pieces of literature around as well
haha GET YOR OWN BREAKFAST!!! they always want what we make huh…!
i bet your hubby feels a lot of food envy when he sees ur meals <3
I really liked To Kill A Mockingbird but The Great Gatsby was my favorite. I can’t quite remember A Separate Peace. Another one I loved was The Giver.
All great books, but To Kill a Mockingbird is the best!
I loved Catcher in the Rye and Hatchet from elementary school.
Pride and Prejudice! Loved it!
Those oats look yummy!
My favorite book from high school was The Metamorphosis by Kafka. I had to choose a book to do a presentation on in my senior year, and I had only chosen The Metamorphosis because it was short. I ended up loving the symbolism and falling in love with the Kafka-esque.
In my college literature class, we were assigned an excerpt from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and I ended up going out and buying it to read the whole thing. I really loved the Emersonian influences, deep-rooted symbolism, and the way Ellison’s Invisible Man made me ponder my own life and efforts.
I’d have to say to kill a mockingbird and catcher in the rye. I’ve done about 7 papers or more on that book. It’s such a great book about teen discoveries and fulfillment.
I <3 this question: The Great Gatsby, The Outsiders, Lord of the Flies, and Pride and Prejudice. Loved high school literature.
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