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 […]
Recent Reads
Linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit The Last Midwife: A Novel by Sandra Dallas – Books about midwifery are among my very favorites. This one didn’t disappoint. A late 19th century lay midwife deals with prejudice from the town doctor, a murder rap, and shock waves from her tumultuous marriage. Loved it. Infectious Madness: […]
My favorite books of 2015
I did a terrible job of keeping up with what I read last year. Terrible. I keep looking around my house and finding books I read that never made the pages of this blog. Ah, well. Onward and upward. Here are the books that made the most impact on me last year. Big Magic: Creative […]
Recent reads, winter version
I used to write a post monthly about the books I read, but for the last year or so I just can’t seem to get my act together to do this. The last time I posted Recent Reads was back in August. And although I swore I created a draft here to keep track, now […]
Recent Read-Alouds
One of my homeschooling goals each year is to complete a list of read-alouds with my kids. Read aloud time is complicated now that I have several kids of very varying ages, but it’s one of the things I’m determined to do each day, even when the listeners are teenagers. I haven’t read all the […]
Recent reads
I read a lot this past month. A lot. I didn’t list all the books below. I think I’m trying to fit in All The Reading before our homeschool year begins, knowing that I’ll have far less time available for it once we get school under way. Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected This book […]
Recently read: June & July
You know what I hate about putting off my “recent reads” post? I end up forgetting some of the titles I’ve read. I haven’t yet figured out a good system for keeping track, so I often have to scour my Amazon account for orders, library book holds and my failing memory. Which isn’t a system […]
Recent Reads
Despite the fact that I set a goal to read “fewer books, with more intention”, I managed to read a ton these past few weeks. Although to be fair, I believe a couple of these were titles I simply forgot to list last time. How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are – Longtime readers know I […]