9 of 10: When the Whistle Blows is beautifully written; you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll close the book happy. One of the better written books I’ve read this year. Since I picked this book up at TLA over a year ago, I’ve had the impression that it would be a little like Rocket Boys (renamed October Sky), which is one…
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Tell Me What to Read: Round 11
Once again, the end of the month draws nigh. And tomorrow is when the MLA conference begins, so I’ll be enjoying it on the Cape, so of course, I have no complaints about the end of the month. As predicted, I was not nearly so awesome in April. Frankly, it wasn’t my best month of reading, except for that week…
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Mexico
And we’re home. Actually, we got home on Friday evening, which is most definitely the way to go, because it meant we could use Friday evening to unpack, go grocery shopping, and do laundry, and then have the whole weekend before returning to work. We are so over the “return on Sunday night, preferably on the very last flight” concept….
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Week 28
And I am now officially in the third trimester.
Alien
When my dad was here a few weeks ago, he pulled my baby book off the shelf (I hadn’t even realized we had it) and as we flipped through it together, we came upon this ultrasound image of me when I was almost exactly as far along as our baby is right now. And yes, I look like an alien….
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