Summer book report

Ah, the lazy days of summer, the perfect time to curl up in the sun on your favorite lounge chair and get lost in the pages of a good book. I'll admit there weren't nearly enough of those moments this past summer, but I managed to devour a handful of delicious reads. Here are a...

Spring book report

What's that they say about best laid plans? I set out to do monthly book reports, which became bimonthly (I totally just googled this term to double check, and it does in fact mean "twice a month or every other month" because that's not confusing at all), which has now become seasonal. Because soccer. Yup,...

The story behind the seven

Recently a friend on social media tagged me in a post about books. It asked to post the covers of seven books I loved over the course of seven days. No review of any sort or an explanation as to why I loved them. Just the covers. BOOKS? I'm in. NO EXPLANATION? You're killing me,...

Jan/Feb book report

I've decided to change things up a bit this year with my book reports -- instead of writing about all the books I've read in a given month, I'll highlight my main recommendations. You can still follow my reading pile on Goodreads, and I do try to write reviews now and then over there if something...

December book report and my faves of 2017

Reading dropped a bit as we prepared for the holidays last month. And okay, part of that was also me scrambling to finish watching LOST before Netflix took it away. I had started the series when it was on TV 10+ years ago, and even used a few episodes in my classroom alongside our reading...

November book report

I know, I know, it's eighteen days into December. But good news: I finished my yearly reading goal! And I couldn't let a month slip past without giving a shout-out to all the wonderful words that entered my brain in story form. November was a very YA/Middle grade focused month. In fact, I didn't read...

October book report

October was a good month for reading. Oh who am I kidding? Every month is a good month for reading! I decided to let my most recent novel do a bit more marinating before I dive back into revisions and have been working on a YA book written in verse. A very fun project, but...

September book report

Last month I discovered that middle grade audio books sometimes come with fun sound effects and musical accompaniment.  We took a small road trip over the holiday weekend and even though I did relent and allow the boys to watch videos part of the way, I made sure to get kid friendly audiobooks just in...

August book report

Forgive my slight lateness, back to school and all that jazz. Which around here is two-fold as work has been slightly insane the past few weeks. I am in admissions, and you would think students would have that part already done, ya know, BEFORE classes started? Nope. First day was yesterday and there were still fall applications...