I’m in Vegas again for the week and on Wednesday, my mom and I drove up to Cedar City, UT for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. If you’ve never been, or never even heard of it, you are missing out. We’ve gone nearly every year for the past 15 years and loved every single play we’ve seen (and we’ve probably seen…
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What I’m Going to Read: Round 1
The big winner (who won nothing) was Crafty Ashley with her suggestion of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee. However, I’d already read it, so I emailed her back for her second choice and she responded with Life with Picasso. I’ve already requested it from the UT library and I’ll start it next week. I won’t pretend I’m not…
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Past the Point of No Return
The second quarter has not been quite as good as the first quarter (the end of the semester just swamped me). Still, I’m happy with 43 books and it definitely puts me on track to well exceed my goal of 120 books for 2009. The Girl Who Could Fly – Victoria Forester – Cute, but it wasn’t until the last…
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Tell Me What To Read
You lovely readers were all very enthusiastic about the “Tell Me What To Read” idea (for which I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You all are great). So here we go, Round 1! Tell me what book I should read in July. It can be any genre, any age level, and have been published last week or…
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A Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
8/9 of 10: I’d give an 8 to A Long Way From Chicago and a 9 to A Year Down Yonder, but they are both just delightful. These are the kind of books I can’t wait to read aloud to my children. The summer that Bart and I were engaged, I started reading again in earnest, with a particular focus…
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