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January 1, 2017 by Carrie

My Favorite Books of 2016

My Favorite Books of 2016

I need to create a better system for keeping track of the books I read, because every time I sit down to do a “recent reads” or “best of” books post, I end up having to search through my Amazon purchases, this blog and other places to remember what I read! Oh, of course. I […]

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December 8, 2016 by Carrie

Recent read-alouds, ballerinas & Les Mis version

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 […]

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October 28, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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October 15, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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September 19, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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August 16, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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May 23, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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April 19, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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March 16, 2016 by Carrie

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, […]

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February 15, 2016 by Carrie

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 […]

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