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November 8, 2018
"Return to Gone-Away" by Elizabeth Enright

This book picks up where that one left off, with Portia's family renovating the abandoned mansion that her parents bought the previous summer. It's all about fixing an old house, and I have ALWAYS wanted to fix up an old house (in th...
Published on November 08, 2018 16:20
November 2, 2018
"Soldier On" by Vanessa Rasanen -- Guest Review on SDMW

There are no easy answers provided here -- simply reading the Bible and praying and going to church don't fix every problem, though turning your back on Word and Sacrament certainly ex...
Published on November 02, 2018 07:49
October 31, 2018
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by A. Conan Doyle

This year, I'm teaching it to several homeschooled high sc...
Published on October 31, 2018 17:03
October 30, 2018
Top Ten Tuesday: 'Tis Now the Very Witching Time of Night

This week, That Artsy Reader Girl gave us a bit of a freebie. It's supposed to be something Halloween-themed, but the exact prompt is up to us. I decided to focus on dark, macabre, or eerie books. Now, the truth is that I don't like scary books. Or scary movies. At all. Unless they involve vampires; then, I'm okay. So none of these are especially scary or horrifying, except maybe Dracula (cuz vampires). But they ARE dark.
I'm sharing a...
Published on October 30, 2018 06:54
October 29, 2018
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

I love this book. I loved it the first time I read it, between freshman and sophomore years o...
Published on October 29, 2018 16:00
October 27, 2018
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis

Anyway, I totally dug this bo...
Published on October 27, 2018 07:06
October 12, 2018
"The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne" by Catherine Reef

Published on October 12, 2018 07:43
October 10, 2018
"Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

I am sometimes resistant about very popular, famous movies that "everybody is reading now." I get skeptical and suspicious. Not sure why -- part of my stubbornly individualistic personality or something. So it took me a few years to finally read this. But I'm glad I overcame my inner resistanc...
Published on October 10, 2018 17:57
October 5, 2018
The Bibliophile Sweater Tag

I wasn't tagged with this specifically -- I found it at The Book Hound, and RM Lutz tagged anyone who wanted to steal it, so... here I am, stealing the tag. Like a year after it was posted. Because that is exactly what my life is like right now.
I'm not just busy these days, I am STUPID BUSY. Like, so busy it makes me stupid sometimes. I hate it. I need to unload something from my pile of life, but every time I try, something else jumps on the haywagon and I'm ove...
Published on October 05, 2018 14:05
October 3, 2018
"The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

I'm having my 3rd-6th graders read this for our homeschool co-op, which gave me a great reason to re-read it myself. Neither of my kids in that group had read it before, and it's been so much fun watching them experience this mystery. My almost-11-yr-old re...
Published on October 03, 2018 12:18