I can’t believe it’s already September! I have no idea where this summer has gone, let alone the year! Even though I did get to read Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo (and it was amazing), I’m moving fairly slowly through The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig and not because it’s bad –…

I always think that when I travel I’ll have a little more time when visiting family to read, but most of my time is spent visiting (imagine that)! I drove out to my parents’ home on Thursday night and then we drove out to Wisconsin on Friday for my aunt…

Personally, life’s been getting back on track – still have a lot of remodeling that needs to happen because of the flooding, but other than we’re getting back to “normal.” Work’s been busy as the summer winds down and Summer Reading will be officially done on Friday. I’m hoping that…

What a week it’s been! Have you ever had a week that just can’t seem to get much worse? That was my week. We had a massive storm hit our area last Monday which resulted in a manhole cover being dislodged on the street next to the house and water…

I finished up Nightbooks by J.A. White and have to say that I really enjoyed it! It incorporated some folk and fairy tales in a really unique way and was just creepy enough – a great fall booktalk for middle grade readers! I started The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery…

I did read The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller – a realistic fiction story about a girl trying to manage the expectations of school with a mom suffering from debilitating depression at home and a therapist dad who’s trying to make everything okay. I also read Sunny by Jason Reynolds…

This was a fun week of reading as I was able to finish The Boy, the Boat, and the Beast by Samantha M. Clark – and even though I kind of figured out the premise of the story it still held enough surprise for me at the end. I also read The…

I’ll definitely be reviewing The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss. It was a book that surprised me in how much I ended up loving the quirky characters and crazy antics of Bicycle as she cycled from D.C. to San Francisco! I also read Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy…

This past week, my family went down the shore for a family reunion of sorts with almost my entire dad’s side of the family. That means at any given time there were about 15 people in a beach house! And even with two trips back and forth to work for…