. . . to make me happy. Just some new prints in Ella’s bathroom (and a husband who when I said “do you think they’re too far apart?” said “Let me just hang them a couple of inches closer together”). This is from a poster I picked up at ALA from the Little, Brown booth to promote the picture book…
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The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
For the first two-thirds of The Rules of Inheritance, I was mentally writing this review in my head and it went something like, “I hate to write really negative things about a memoir, of all books, because it’s so personal, but this book is horrible. It’s so dark and depressing and I feel unhappy just looking at it.” But, I…
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Three Things I Wore Recently Part 3
One of my aims when I get dressed is to wear something I can legitimately wear all day. I want to look nice, but I also don’t want to spend any time fiddling with things or that I can’t walk around the grocery store in or crawl around on the library floor wearing. Those shoes in the first picture do…
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The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
I know I’m a couple years late on The Happiness Project. Better late then never, though, I suppose. And I am now 100% on the bandwagon. I’m a little overwhelmed, actually, by how much I adored this book. Here’s how much I loved this book. I checked this out from the library and read the whole thing. And then I…
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Wheat Bread, or, How I Have Overcome My Childhood Issues
When I was growing up, my job was to make bread for our family. My dad had this goal to have 12 loaves of bread in the freezer at all times and . . . I just pretty much never could make that happen. So I was always making bread at the last possible moment when there wasn’t a slice…
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