Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr.
For Flashback Friday this week, I’m taking it way back.
My parents were always really good about reading to me. I was probably 4 or so when I realized that the letters on the page made sounds. I got it right off. That was it for me. It’s been [...]
A few weeks ago, when the iPad first arrived at our door, I played with the different features of the iBooks app and reported my findings to you guys. Since then, I’ve actually had a chance to read a full book on it and want to just report back on my feelings on the iPad [...]
The Book: Callie’s Tally: An Accounting of Baby’s First Year or What My Daughter Owes Me!, by Betsy Howie
The Story: Betsy Howie is in her late 30’s when she finds out she is pregnant. She’s pretty thrilled. She reads somewhere that it’s like 190,000 bucks to raise a kid from birth to 18 and she [...]
I think that my little guy is going to need this in his room at some point:
Isn’t that darling? I’m in love.
But if he’s a serious reader, we may need something more like this:
I’ve made fun of Shaun all along as using the baby as an excuse to buy cool stuff, but I may just [...]
The Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Story: I’ve kind of been on a non-fiction kick lately. I have two more non-fiction books to review this week. Really weird for me. Hm.
Anyway. In this book, Barbara Kingsolver documents the year that she and her family spent on their farm [...]
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The Book: The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
The Story: I think that the best way to describe The Magicians is that the Narnia series and the Harry Potter series got together and had a more adult baby. Makes sense, right?
This genius kid, Quentin (cool name, huh?), is obsessed with a series of stories about a place [...]
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oh, Little House. I loved it. I cannot even tell you how battered my copies of all the books in this series were. My mom actually had to re-buy Little House on the Prairie because I read it until the pages were falling out.
Since I’ve been very [...]
The Book: Skeletons at the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian
The Story: This is the book that I was talking about in my review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, this is a WWII book written from the perspective of Germans. Pretty different from most novels out there that [...]
On Friday, I celebrated my 100th post by buying a good book for one of my readers.
Today, I used a random number generator that picked the number 10.
That means Sadie, of Our Little Pebbles is getting a shiny new book in the mail!!
Congrats Sadie!
Thanks again to everyone who reads my blog and who entered the [...]
I’ve had my eye on Twelve Publishers for awhile and after reading Columbine (a Twelve book), I’ve been thinking about them again.
Kind of their “thing” is that they publish only twelve books a year- one a month. They are dedicated to publishing quality books that “add to the national conversation.” They push these books [...]