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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/23/18
Short recap for the week – I finished up A Possibility of Whales by Karen Rivers and promptly didn’t get to any other books! My mom and good friend are in town for a long weekend which has been absolutely wonderful. We’ve had beautiful weather and spent a lot of time…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books for My Brother
This week is a FREEBIE week for Top Ten Tuesday, so with my brother’s birthday today, I decided to create a top ten list just for him. Growing up, my brother wasn’t much of a book reader, but he loved sports statistics and could rattle off stats for pretty much…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/16/18
I’m slowly getting back into the groove! I’m really trying to do some higher quality workouts when I’m at the gym which means that I’m not riding a stationary bike and reading a book because although I’m working out, I know I should be doing better. So, I’m back to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved But Will Never Re-read
I used to re-read books all the time when I was little, finding comfort in the stories that I knew from cover to cover. Now, working in the library and on this blog, I rarely feel as though I have the time to re-read books at all (which is why…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/9/18
This week was so weird and I’m completely blaming the weather with snow flurries, rain, sun, clouds, warm weather and cold which led me feeling sleepy, a little cranky and not in the mood to read… I’m hoping to finish up The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta today and over the weekend…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/2/18
I had a great weekend, the library was closed on Friday, so I got to spend a (scheduled) day off getting stuff done, which felt awesome. I also started working on a new project for my blog and am really happy with how it’s looking (more on that at a…
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Middle Grade ARCs I Picked Up At PLA
I talked yesterday about the awesome experience I had at PLA this past weekend. What I didn’t get to finish talking about is that I picked up so many great ARCs that I’m having a hard time deciding what to start reading first. If you’re unfamiliar with a large library…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Take Place In Another Country
Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth A. Odhiambo The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon Caminar by Skila Brown Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste The Lightning Queen by Laura Resau A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Shane W. Evans Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg Top…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/25/18
It was definitely a strange week – I was at work Monday & Tuesday, we had a snow day on Wednesday, I was at the PLA conference Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and we had a friend’s wedding Friday night. Plus, with friends in town this weekend, we had dinner plans…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring TBR List
I chose to focus just on middle grade titles, because if I looked at everything being published this spring, I’d get a little stressed out! It’s enough just thinking about middle grade titles. If you want to know when titles are coming out you can easily check Amazon or GoodReads,…
