Every so often I like to write about what I have read in the weekend papers. In looking back, I haven’t written a Weekend Papers post since October. Either we’ve been busy or I haven’t been prioritizing the paper. Either way, here are my latest picks. Sharing E-Grief, Made Personal by Katherine Rosman. This piece […]
Read moreToday I’m linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit. When Anne wrote that Quick Lit was coming up this weekend, I couldn’t believe it. While this month felt long in a lot of ways, it seems like I just collected my reads for last month’s Quick Lit. Anyway, here goes… Blood Will Out by Walter […]
Read more“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything else.” -Plato
Read moreI love Good Night Moon and The Little Engine that could as much as the next guy but I love new books even more. While my girls read many of the books that I did growing up, I believe they are readers because of the current titles that I always keep in their hands. There […]
Read moreI think about the idea of ‘boy books’ and ‘girl books’ a lot so when I saw the article, “When Boys Can’t Like ‘Girl Books’” I sat down to read right away. In the article, multiple authors report times when librarians or school administrators invite only girls or only boys to their author talks depending […]
Read more“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -Hans Chrisitan Andersen
Read morePlease join me today at Great New Books where I review The Girl on the Train. After reading and loving Station Eleven last fall, I had a hard time falling in love with a book again. Until I read this one.
Read moreI have so much on my mind lately and usually this blog is the best place for me to write down and organize my thoughts but for right now, I seem to be spinning. I can’t wrap my head around a concise blog post. My mind is busy with thoughts of… The Writers Circle which […]
Read more“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreI have loved Kate DiCamillo for a long, long time. This weekend, I loved her even more than I had before. Her PSA, “On the Importance of Read Aloud” popped up over and over again on Facebook and on blogs that I love like Read, Write and Reflect. She reminded each of us of how […]
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