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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 changes have impacted my blogging practice what changes I want to make to blogging going forward It’s the first in a Sunday series that will run through to the end […]
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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 little stack of books living on my printer and I can think of four titles in the next few months that I’ll want to purchase. This crunch on space prompted […]
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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…
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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 Road because it’s about local history. Mom remembered hearing about the Pine Street boys from a Heritage Minute (embedded below) that aired shortly before I was born. It surprised me […]
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 will have to wait, but the voting continues. November’s Selection October’s theme is middle grade fiction that’s been languishing on my TBR. I sorted my to-read-middle-grade shelf by date added, […]