Booklist

Since I am a dork, and a reading fool, I thought it may be useful to give everyone a list of books that I have found helpful. It will be a bit slow at first, as I don't want to put anything up until I have read it, and I am waiting on our application before really diving in. That and Harry Potter book 7 comes out in 13 days, 9 hours, and 28 minutes. Of course I know the seconds, but they change so fast, what is the point of listing them really?

So I just finished 'Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother.' It is a very short, very easy read about a woman's experience with open adoption and transracial adoption. I don't know if it is for everyone, personally I think it was wonderful, but some people may be upset by her total honesty with her thoughts and emotions during the entire experience. It is nice to know that I am not some horrible person because of some of the thoughts that I have and some of the issues that I am striving to work out. It does have some good stuff on the transracial aspects of their experience as well, and I think it is a good way to kind of get inside the head of a woman who is going through this type of experience.

Feel free to let me know your thoughts and feelings on any of the books I end up listing, as I will be with mine. And also feel free to suggest books that you think would be helpful, or that were helpful to you. I will try to do my best to keep up, and to post my 'review' for everyone to see. I really hope that all of you take some time to read at least one book, or check out some of the other resources I post here, so that you will not only be better able to understand what we are doing, why we are doing it, the challenges we will be facing, but so that you are more informed about some of the issues that will soon become so central to our (and therefore yours) family. Love you all.