My 4 year old daughter, who is rarely caught not wearing a leotard, loves all things ballet. She picked this library haul. Tanya and the Red Shoes – don’t we all know how it feels to long for lovely red pointe shoes? Tanya gets her long-awaited pair, only to find she’s clunky and ungainly and suffering […]
Recent Read-Alouds
First, a bit of housekeeping: thanks so much to all who responded to the survey! The winner of the gift card and ebook has been emailed. A few books we’ve enjoyed reading aloud recently: … to the little ones: Blueberries for Sal – who doesn’t love a sweet romp through the blueberry patch and a […]
Recent reads
Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit This was a good month for books. A couple of these were among the most enjoyable I’ve read all year. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett – this is my first time reading Patchett, but it won’t be my last. This intriguing story follows a scientist […]
Read Aloud Roundup
Read aloud roundup is where I share great books I’ve read with my kids lately. Here are a few we enjoyed last week. This is Not My Hat A small fish steals a hat and thinks he got away with it, but eventually learns that crime doesn’t pay. (This one is sneaky, you have […]
Frugal book-loving people are the best kind of people
Several weeks ago, I requested The Tightwad Gazette (the first volume) from a PaperBackSwap member. It took a long time for her to respond to the system’s prompt and confirm that she would indeed send the book. Then I got a message from her stating that the book had a few pages that were torn […]
Recent Reads, perimenopause version
It’s going to look like I did very little reading this month, when the truth is I did a ton. To be fair, I mostly skimmed several books on the topic of perimenopause this month. After a while they all started to sound the same. Note: I now know my sons love me. Why? I […]
Recent reads
Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit – quick reviews of books recently read. All You Need to be Impossibly French by Helena Frith Powell – a fun, easy read on one of my pet topics: la femme francaise. Nobody’s Child by Christina Noble – I became interested in Noble after watching the movie […]
Recent Reads
Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy for Quick Lit. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr. I wanted to love this book. I really, really wanted to. It’s about some of my favorite things: France, food, cooking. The bits about Julia and M.F.K. almost saved it, […]
Recent reads, Black History Month version
Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenburg – Food. Family. Tragedy. Paris. Love. Is there anything else? I wanted to curl up in this book and never come out. My local library had a table set up near the door with well-known […]
Books to read aloud: 2016
A couple of years ago, when I set a goal to read “fewer books, with more intention”, I also decided to make sure my kids had read all the books we already own. The same goes here for read-aloud. Why schlep it to the library or bookstore when there are as-yet-undiscovered treasures right on our […]