Happy Fall, y'all! This is the start of my FAVORITE time of the year! Cooler weather means sweaters and apples and beautiful leaf colors. It just really is my time of the year! This week we are honoring the new season by reading books featuring apples or leaves. We are also reading books set in … Continue reading This Week: September 22nd
Is it getting cooler yet where you are? We've seen another heatwave here which had us retreat back inside again. While I can't wait to get back outside on the hiking trails, the heatwave gave me time to read some great books this week. We are reading books by Hispanic authors in honor of Hispanic … Continue reading This Week: September 15th
Happy National Grandparents Day! I am so thankful for great grandparents, including a grandmother who instilled a love of reading in me. My grandmother was one of the first public school librarians in Fulton County, Georgia. She loved to read books aloud and helped me really connect with fiction through stories she created off the … Continue reading This Week: September 8th
Hoping you are enjoying a beautiful 3-day holiday weekend right now with lots of time to read. I'm reading through several non-fiction books this weekend for our weekly prompts. In honor of Labor Day, our reading prompt this week is "labor rights". I've read several great books about the labor rights struggles of the late … Continue reading This Week: September 1st
This week we are talking about some of our favorite female authors. A while back, I had written about how women often had to take on male monikers in order for their writing to be published. It's still the case in some areas, but the literary world today is much different than in Jane Austen's … Continue reading This Week: August 25th
A friend recently reminded me that sometimes we just need a good laugh to solve our trouble. It doesn't always work, but a laugh can make a horrible day just a little bit better. I've read a few books recently that fall into this pattern and I'm excited to talk about them this week! Here's … Continue reading This Week: August 18th
My favorite places in the world are libraries and bookstores. The adventures and ideas that surround you on those pages is just amazing to me! When I was little, I always wanted to be Belle in Beast's library - reading for days and days and still nor running out of new books! My all-time favorite … Continue reading This Week: August 11th
As we enter the back-to-school season, I've been thinking a lot about my favorite school librarians and the books they introduced me to. So many of them had animals on the cover and so do so many of my favorite books of the past few years! Do you have a favorite book with an animal … Continue reading This Week: August 4th
We are back from vacation and back to reviewing some really good books this week! We really had a blast visiting some great landmarks around the Bristol area - the caverns, historic sites, and lots of independent bookstores. We came home with so many new-to-us books! How did you spend this last week? Here's the … Continue reading This Week: July 28th
It's officially my birthday week and, by the time this posts, I'll be on my road trip vacation! We are headed north for a few days of celebrating without kids in tow - this October also marks 10 years since we were married, so we're making the most of this vacation! Even though I'll be … Continue reading This Week: July 21st
