Halloween is this weekend. And I’m usually not one for the gross or horrifying parts of Halloween (please do not let one of my children ever want to dress up as “person with a bloody axe in their skull” or something). But then, sometimes, by coincidence, you find something that truly is terrifying and it’s right around Halloween and so…
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Tell Me What to Read: Round 16
October has gone by so ridiculously fast I can hardly believe it. Time to finish up your costumes (or start them (or not dress up at all, which is my general mode of operation)) and also suggest a book for me to read. You know the drill: 1. Comment with the title of one book you think I should read…
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Amy’s Eyes by Richard Kennedy
4 of 10: Amy’s Eyes was just too weird for me. I can do talking animals and dolls that come to life, but this one was just so bizarre I just couldn’t enjoy it. It really pains me when I don’t enjoy a book that someone recommends for Tell Me What to Read, because generally when someone is recommending a…
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Three Months
Dear Ella, Of COURSE we think you are the cutest, sweetest, bestest baby there ever was. So we’ll just skip over that part. Once every couple of days, we’ll make you laugh and then your Dad and I repeat whatever encouraged the laughter approximately four million times while you look at us with increasing disdain. “Who are these people?” I…
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-Williams
7 of 10: I liked One Crazy Summer, but not as much as I expected to. This story about three girls visiting their long-absent poet mother in California and getting swept up into the Black Panther movement didn’t resonate quite as much as I would have liked. One Crazy Summer is one of the National Book Award finalists and one…
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