Author: Jenna @ Falling Letters

The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien [MG Review]

5 January 2024 / brief reviews / 6 Comments
The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien [MG Review]

The Bellwoods Gameby Celia KrampienSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: July 2023Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (S&S)Length: 305 pages Genre: HorrorTarget Age: +9Representation: Supporting characters incl Black boy and Hispanic girl coded autistic Summary 💬 Everyone knows Fall Hollow is haunted. It has been ever since Abigail Snook went into the woods many years ago, never to be seen again. Since then, it’s tradition for the sixth graders at Beckett Elementary to play the Bellwoods Game on […]

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Wrapping Up 2023, Looking Forward 2024

3 January 2024 / thoughts / 21 Comments
Wrapping Up 2023, Looking Forward 2024

Welcome to my 14th annual ‘Wrapping Up, Looking Forward’ post. In this post, I take a general look back at how I did with my goals in 2023, and set some new goals for 2024. Posting and Reading Overview I posted 36 times in 2023. 58% of those posts occurred in January and December. Why do I ever set a goal of three posts/week, hahaha. The most posts I’ve ever […]

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December 2023 Month In Review + Cybils 2023 Finalists

1 January 2024 / month in review / 6 Comments
December 2023 Month In Review + Cybils 2023 Finalists

Life Updates I’m happy to report this December has been much more peaceful that last December! Lack of snow aside, I have been enjoying the season. In fact, I think the lack of snow has helped me excel at reading and blogging this month. Instead of going outside to enjoy winter activities, I’m staying inside to read read read and type type type 😛 I have scheduled posts several weeks […]

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2023 End of Year Book Survey

31 December 2023 / meme, thoughts / 21 Comments
2023 End of Year Book Survey

Hosted by Jamie @ Perpetual Page Turner, I like how this survey delves into the specifics of books read and gives me a chance to review all I read and wrote this year. I have completed this survey every year since I started book blogging full time (2014). I removed some questions for which I didn’t have an answer. So, be sure to visit the original post if you’d like to […]

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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield [Family Reads]

29 December 2023 / family reads / 2 Comments
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield [Family Reads]

Why we chose Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River Mom and I have been struggling to choose a book for Family Reads for half of 2023. Mom would select a book, start reading it, and then decide it wasn’t a good fit. I would select a book, search the library catalogues for it, and find it was unavailable. Finally, December 1 came around. I decided to make an executive decision. […]

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