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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/10/2020
Last Week A Wish In the Dark by Christina Soontornvat was so, so, so good! It’s probably one of my favorites for this year! Again, it’s been another week of very little reading, but this book was so engaging. Even when I could barely keep my eyes open, I’d try…
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Book Lovers Day
Here are five simple things you can do to celebrate Book Lovers Day! Visit an independent bookstore in person or online! Check out Bookshop.org to connect with your local indie and support indie’s all over the U.S. Take time to read together (or separately) as a family. Maybe dinner tonight…
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Four on Friday: Hurricanes
Depending on where you live you may be well aware of hurricanes or it may be something you’ve never experienced before. Being northwest of Philadelphia, we often get remnants of tropical storms and hurricanes that move up the East Coast. With meteorologists predicting a higher than normal storm season for…
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Finding What Brings Me Joy
I’ve mentioned a few times over the past couple of weeks that I’m finding it difficult to have enough energy to open a book. This has led to an average of reading one book a week and if you know me at all, that is extremely low. That being said,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Colors In the Titles
What a fun topic! I pulled together just a few picture books each with a different color in the title. I also loved how diverse these titles are as well! What other books with colors in the titles would you include in this list? Maybe Red by Michael Hall, Green…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/3/2020
Last Week This week I read the YA debut, My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong. The publishers describe it as Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato. Ivy is sent to Beijing to stay with her extended family after a difficult start to her summer. It is there that…
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Four on Friday: Summer Camp
My parents were both professors at a university growing up, so they never sent my siblings and me to camp. We did some classes and activities, but never a day camp or sleep away camp. I love reading about these settings because it’s something I never got to experience as…
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Netflix’s Baby-Sitters Club
I’m a child of the 90s which means The Baby-Sitters Club series was regular reading material for me growing up. I didn’t have many on my bookshelves at home, but I read dozens of them from the public library. Basically devouring them as fast as I could (even faster when…
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Dudley’s Day at Home
Synopsis: “’What does Dudley do all day while we’re away?’ Sam wonders. Mom explains that Dudley does ordinary dog things: he eats, naps, guards the house, and plays. But in Sam’s mind, Dudley’s day at home is anything but ordinary. Delightful digital paintings depict the human activities Sam imagines Dudley…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Wordless Picture Books
Last week, I shared that I’m working with Bookroo and got the chance to highlight my wordless picture book list on their website! But, what I didn’t get to do, was pull together a pretty image that I can share on Pinterest too. So because today is a Top Ten…
