8 of 10: The Unlikely Disciple, about a non-religious student’s semester at a religious university, easily kept me reading, but I couldn’t quite fall in love with it for a variety of reasons. I tend to be interested in books with unusual or unlikely premises, so this one, about Kevin Roose, a Brown student who decided to transfer to Liberty for one semester,…
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Thirty Four Weeks
This was the week it suddenly hit me that, oh my word; we’re having a real baby. Next month.
Ice Cream
I really like ice cream. A lot. I worked at Cold Stone for three years through high school, and I never got tired of ice cream. I’d bring some home almost every night and then have it for breakfast the next morning (I was the picture of good nutritional choices, clearly). So, on Saturday, when Friendly’s (the east coast equivalent…
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What I’m Going to Read: Round 12
The big winner this month was Life of a Doctor’s Wife who suggested The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’d read the book at the end of last year when Shelly kindly sent me a copy (which I read on the way home to two weeks of an empty house and was pretty sure I’d never sleep again because, wow, was…
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Mock Caldecott
Today was my last class period with the second graders. They’ve consistently been my favorite grade this year, and it was a little bittersweet (or would have been if they hadn’t insisted on laying down on the rug every time I looked away from them for more than half a nanosecond). For the majority of the year, we’ve been focusing…
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