• Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/9/16

    This week I got back into the reading game and read a bunch of middle grade novels, which felt great!  Here’s what I read this week: The Best Man by Richard Peck Wishing Day by Lauren Myracle Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern Me and Miranda Mullaly by Jake Gerhardt…

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    Teacher Appreciation Week

    I’ve been lucky to have some amazing teachers in my lifetime, specifically my parents who along with raising four kids are both professors at a university.  My favorite school teachers (and the ones I can remember the best) are the ones who read aloud to us – a few even…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/28/16

    I feel like I’ve been in a reading rut, but I finally got some quality reading done this week and have a few books to hit up before PLA next week!  This week I read – Zombie Baseball Beatdown by Paolo Bacigalupi, a crazy story about zombie cows, small town life,…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Love

    Today’s Top Ten Tuesday official title is: Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven’t Talked About Enough/In A While.  I decided to head over to Young Adult (since I don’t get to talk about these books as much as I’d like!) Not If I See You First by…

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    Book Review: Soar

    Jeremiah has been dealt a difficult hand from the get-go, abandoned as a baby and later diagnosed with a heart condition requiring a heart transplant at the age of 11.  And that’s where his dreams of playing baseball are put on hold.  Jeremiah can’t play baseball, he can’t even run…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/7/16

    This week I read Jackaby by William Ritter, which I absolutely LOVED!  The book is described as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Who – which I can definitely see.  I loved the mix of mystery and fantastical elements and I’m really looking forward to the next in the series.…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/29/16

    It was a very busy week!  Working late a few nights, working for a little bit on Saturday and a ton of birthday parties Saturday and Sunday to celebrate (which left me very little time to read!)  I did read The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, a horror fiction story about wasps…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’d Give a Theme Song

    Echo by Pam Munoz RyanThis books just begs for a theme song with the harmonica tying three stories together spread across multiple decades. This book needs a theme song. Crossover by Kwame AlexanderCrossover already has got such a great beat with the novel in verse, it’s another book that just has…