Isn’t Valentine’s Day sometimes a kind of awkward day? I mean, if you talk about what your lovely significant other did, it can kind of seem like bragging. And guaranteed there is someone in your personal circle of friends who can top it (“and then I looked out the window and there was a new BMW!” or “and then I…
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Things I’m Good At
Getting showered, dressed, and my hair done everyday Pretending I’m going to eat leftovers that I actually have no intentions of ever eating, but feel too guilty about throwing away before they go bad Swinging so high on the swings at the park that I feel like I’m flying (backyard swingsets are never as excellent) Making the bed Cartwheels Driving…
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Room by Emma Donoghue
9 of 10: When I wasn’t reading this book, I was thinking about it. Room by Emma Donoghue, told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy living in captivity with his mother, blew me away. You may have heard about this book – it’s been wildly popular with all the big review sources, has been a major bestseller, and was…
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Another Episode . . .
. . . in the likely never-to-end saga of Janssen says “darling,” Bart says, “Muumuu.” Ella says, “Beloved Mother, you had to Google the spelling of ‘muumuu,’ didn’t you?”
Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, Illustrated by Tony Fucile
I loved Bink and Gollie. And I mean LOVED it. It’s an unusual cross between easy reader and picture book (it’s gotten some criticism for that, actually, because it doesn’t fit nicely into an age slot. I say, bah to those humbugs) because it has chapters, but the pictures and vocabulary fit more into the picture book category where you…
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