What Am I Doing Here? [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

24 November 2019 / thoughts / 6 Comments
What Am I Doing Here? [A Book Blogger’s Reflections]

Hello! It’s been awhile (if ever) since I wrote a post like this. Prepare yourself for a bit of rambly introspection. The purpose of this post is to: examine how my life has changed over the past year how those […]

5 Books I Need to Re-read and Re-evaluate [Discussion]

22 November 2019 / discussion / 6 Comments
5 Books I Need to Re-read and Re-evaluate [Discussion]

Background A few months ago, I realized I have maxed out the space I have for books in my apartment. Thankfully, I carefully select which books I buy. So, this isn’t a serious problem quite yet…but I already have a […]

Beatrix Potter Has Never Been More Terrifying [MG Review]

19 November 2019 / review / 2 Comments
Beatrix Potter Has Never Been More Terrifying [MG Review]

I read Scary Stories for Young Foxes over two days in late October. As an autumn read, the book delighted me. The stories offer some properly frightening, chills inducing scenes. If I described each story individually, they might sound like monster-of-the-week. But the progression of Mia and Uly’s journeys keeps them more interesting than that…

Valour Road: How Three Men from the Same Street Earned the Victoria Cross in WWI [Family Reads]

10 November 2019 / family reads / 2 Comments
Valour Road: How Three Men from the Same Street Earned the Victoria Cross in WWI [Family Reads]

Why we chose John Nadler’s Valour Road Mom and I didn’t have any particular ideas for this month. So, I asked Mom to pick fiction or non-fiction and then we browsed my to-read-fiction shelf on Goodreads. We landed on Valour […]

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #10 (Help Me Choose!)

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #10 (Help Me Choose!)

Septembers’s Result – The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller I have been putting off this post because I’ve had The Book Whisperer on hold for almost two months – and it still hasn’t become available! So my thoughts on it […]