A winner! A winner! We have a winner! Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghes, which has been suggested approximately two million times, this time by Melanie and Becca. (Melanie’s was the winning suggestion, should you care about such details). The downside is that this book is quite popular. And by “popular,” I mean “I am number 71 in line at…
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Let Us Pretend You Still Care About Halloween
The Halloween festivities went on and on. Just the way I like a holiday. I am completely sold on having children because it means there is dressing up. And it doesn’t have to be me. Win-win. Indulge me while I share ten trillion pictures of my baby as an owl: We had a big church party on Saturday evening, complete…
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Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
7 of 10: Lockdown is the story of a young teenager in juvenile detention, trying to get his life back on track. It’s neither as depressing as it could have been or as eye-rolling optimistic as you might expect. This book was kind of the opposite of One Crazy Summer for me. I expected to love that one and ended…
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Terrifying in the Extreme
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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