Where Reading is a Way of Life
It is becoming more and more popular to become “green.” Not only are more and more families making wiser decisions, it is also becoming a popular topic of conversation in classrooms. My daughter did a major unit last year in 3rd grade on “the 3 R’s” – Reduce, Recycle, Reuse. Over the summer, she was [...]
Surprise, tears, and the desire to share. After being an avid reader forever, I find that I usually see an ending coming. I’ve usually recognize the foreshadowing and even though I enjoy a book, it’s rare that a book actually totally surprises me at the end. It’s even rarer for it to surprise me with [...]
I tend to not like many nonfiction books. I like a story. I like fiction. In Halfway to Each Other, I didn’t get fiction, but I did get an amazing story. In fact, Susan Pohlman wrote it in a style that actually could have also been a first person fiction book. This made it a [...]
I bought The Diary by accident to be honest. I’m not sure how it ended up on my booklist at Book of the Month Club, but I must have been looking at it and clicked “add” somewhere along the way because sure enough it came in the mail a few months ago. I knew I’d [...]
When I was asked if I would like to read/review/giveaway The Unexpected Gift by Meaghan Gonzales Wagar and Michelle Bulmer Atha, I clicked over and read the summary and knew from the beginning that I would love this book. And I have to admit that I was not disappointed. It’s a thin book so I [...]
You may remember how much Cameron liked the first book in the Precious Girls Club series, A Little Bit of Faith. Thanks to the Precious Girls Club and MomSelect she just received the second book, Operation Kindness, and it was just as much a hit as the first one – maybe more so. In case [...]
Who doesn’t love an adventure? I know I have always loved adventures and mysteries so how happy was I when Carol Ottley-Mitchell asked me to review her book, Adventure at Brimstone Hill. This is a children’s mystery – the first in the Caribbean Adventure Series. I originally passed this book on to Cameron to see [...]
I was recently sent a book to read and review that I have to admit to thinking “UGH!” I really wasn’t looking forward to reading it. The book? Enough Already by Peter Walsh, host of TLC’s Clean Sweep.. I didn’t even read the cover (beyond the title). I just thought a book on getting organized? [...]
I think that I may have found my favorite book to b e given to review so far. I wasn’t sure what to expect after reading the summary of The Noticer, but I had agreed to read it so finally this weekend I sat out to do just that. It was a small book so [...]
It has been a long time since anyone besides Janet Evanovich has gotten me so involved in a book that I couldn’t put it down. Curtis Sittenfeld now holds that honor with the book, American Wife. I bought this book on a whim. I wasn’t sure I was even interested in it, but I was [...]
