Category: Book Reviews
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Life is too short to read bad books
Non-Painful Pivot series: Changing Priorities in Your Reading Life Maybe I should say “less-painful” pivots. Pivots usually come with at least a small sense of loss, grieving what life used to be like. It could be a big pivot with big feels about missing my in-person classroom after my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. Or… Read more
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Setting Up Our Yoto Mini
We gave our daughter a Yoto Mini (an audiobook player with no ads) for Christmas, and I am obsessed with creating Make Your Own cards! Daniel gave me a mini sticker printer (that prints via bluetooth from your phone) with the idea of me using it in my planner…but it is also the perfect size… Read more
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The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie
The Read-Aloud Family is more than a handbook on encouraging the love of reading in your family. It’s so much more than that. It’s a warm, fun read that reminds the reader of their own love of reading. Publisher’s Blurb It includes lists books (divided by age) that work well for read-alouds. Mackenzie teaches the… Read more
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What to Read After Where The Crawdads Sing
Go as a River by Shelley Read This is a story of survival and love, with a strong sense of place in the Colorado Mountains (1940’s – 1970’s). You can tell the author has lived there for years and cherishes it. It is a story of adoption, necessary but cruel, and the long-reaching effects on… Read more
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The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly is the perfect spring-time read! I have a black thumb, but this book made me want to go plant a flower garden right away. I can barely keep an aloe plant alive though! Here’s the Setup: “From the author of the international bestsellers The Light Over London and The Whispers… Read more
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Fearless Martha by Sheila Ingle
Fearless Martha by Sheila Ingle was a great read! Definitely read this book in print, because the illustrations are wonderful. They were drawn by John Ingle, Sheila’s husband. Fearless Martha begins with a brief forward, and ends with a glossary explaining colonial-era words the reader may not be familiar with. Set during the American Revolution,… Read more
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A Historical Fiction Book to Read in the Spring
A spring historical fiction book that sticks out to me is The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley. This is a worthy WWII historical fiction novel intertwined with a present-day storyline. Let me know what you think! Read more
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My Reading Life Lately and a TBR Spreadsheet
Right now I’m listening to All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore. Beth Moore narrates the audiobook, and reads section based on the earlier years in a more Arkansas twang, depicting how she would have sounded in that time. I love that. This seems to be a huge two weeks in publishing- Embers in… Read more
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Tracking Reading and TBR
I’ve been feeling the strong urge to re-organize my physical TBR (to be read), and I’m sure my husband would be glad to not have towering stacks of TBR books to trip over. We’re not even going to talk about the Kindle TBR…because I don’t even know. Any thoughts on organizing ebook TBR? I also… Read more