Category: Book Reviews

  • Life is too short to read bad books

    Life is too short to read bad books
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    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

  • Setting Up Our Yoto Mini

    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

  • The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie

    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

  • The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

    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