In the book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, one of the main characters hands out book prescriptions, which are lists of books that he feels would help a particular person with a particular problem. This last weekend I spent… Read more ›
I read a lot this year. A lot. More than any other year in the last 14 or so. Some of that had to do with 2 book challenges I ran- one over the summer and one that’s currently going.… Read more ›
I haven’t posted for a very long time, but Brandy requested a post about how we choose our homeschool subjects, so here we go. Our process for picking subjects for the school year is somewhat cyclical and mostly based on… Read more ›
Catching up, catching uuuuuuuuup! Here’s what I read in August. Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford is an excelllent biography of Zelda. It is also the book that made Z declare that I’m “always reading about Zelda Fitzgerald”. Zelda is… Read more ›
Here’s what I read at the end of July- lots of non-fiction, but quite excellent non-fiction. Careless People Sarah Churchwell is about the state of America in 1926, the year that Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. It covers so many… Read more ›
Almost caught up! These are the books I’ve read over the last couple of weeks. Wink, Poppy, Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke is a disconcerting book, because you’re never sure who is telling the truth and who isn’t. It’s the story… Read more ›
Here’s what I read in June: Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller is a deceptively simple book. Peggy’s father takes her from their home in London into the German mountains to live when the world ends. He’s prepared for this,… Read more ›
Here’s what I read in May: The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz is a really bizarre, really disconcerting (in the best way) book. You start the book not having any idea where you are or what is happening,… Read more ›
I haven’t written about books for a long time. I haven’t written about anything for a long time. It is what it is. So I’m trying to catch up. Seeing as I haven’t posted since the end of March, and… Read more ›
This summer I decided to bypass the complaining about not having anything to do by coming up with summer challenges. We have challenges that we choose from each day to do together, and then another set that are for when… Read more ›
