24 in 48!

22 July 2016 / events / 0 Comments
24 in 48!

I feel like this event has snuck up on me. When I first signed up, I thought I would be at my lake with a lot of time for light reading. I hadn’t given a further thought to the readathon […]

Family Reads: Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese

20 July 2016 / family reads / 0 Comments
Family Reads: Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese

Born out of a desire to get a family of book lovers to connect more over what they’re reading, Family Reads is an occasional feature where my mom, dad or sister and I read and discuss a book.  Why Dad […]

Brief Thoughts: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente

17 July 2016 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Brief Thoughts: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente

Blogger’s autosave ate my full review (which I was quite pleased with) of this book 🙁 I am reminded of why I draft locally in Word… There’s nothing I hate more than rewriting, but I’m going to try to recall […]

Brief Thoughts: In The House on The Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

14 July 2016 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Brief Thoughts: In The House on The Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title’s mythical location.In this blank and barren plot, far from the world […]

2016 Mid-Year Check In

6 July 2016 / thoughts / 0 Comments
2016 Mid-Year Check In

Here we are now in July, rolling down the hill of 2016. Time for the mid-year review! I find it difficult to think this is the first full year where I won’t engage in any formal education. The school year […]