My New Fascination With Reading Aloud

I have always loved reading, but hated reading aloud! My brain ends up going faster then I can speak, and I end up getting EXTREMELY tongue tied.  But now my six week old little man loves hearing mom's and dad's voices, so despite my better judgement, I have had to take up reading aloud.   So far we have participated in A Game of Thrones and searched for an identity with The Lost Hero.  Currently we are living in a Southern small town surrounded by love, witchcraft, and Beautiful Creatures.  From time to time, I feel strange reading mature books to my son, but then I wonder if the more difficult story lines will grow his imagination or if the more mature vocabulary will allow him to develop a larger vocabulary.  Will the Greek and Roman mythology in Rick Riordan's stories seep into his growing little brain and allow him to learn ancient history while hearing an amazing story of heroism for young adults?  I truly hope so!  I hope that the reading time we have already begun will allow him to develop a love of reading that will only grow as he grows.  Fingers crossed!     

The books mentioned in this posting are:

• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• This is the first novel in "A Song of Fire and Ice" series, and is now a television show in it's third season on HBO.  Each of the novels is around 1,000 pages long, but the story is defiantly worth the time it takes to get through each novel.  This one was difficuly to read aloud because of the difficult names involved, but it was worth it.    
• The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
• The first novel in "The Heroes of Olympus" series is the second series by Riordan that features the Greek demigods attending Camp Half-Blood.  The first is the best selling Percy Jackson series.   I recommend starting with the Percy Jackson series (You will not be disappointed), and then moving onto the Heroes series (Some of the characters and story lines overlap).  I am really looking forward to reading the second book in the series, The Son of Neptune.  Riordan also has a third series entitled "The Kane Chronicles" that features ancient Egypt.  I have yet to read this series, but I wish history class had left my on the end of my seat as much as Riordan's stories do!    
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• I picked up this book because of a pin that I found on Pinterest (Yes, I follow libraries on Pinterest.  It is a great way to find new book recommendations).  It recommended reading this book before the movie comes out on Valentine's Day 2013.  Although Beau and I have only just begun the first novel in this best selling series, we are already really enjoying it.  It is a fresh change of pace to read a novel with a love story line told from the male's point of view.