Category: Book Reviews / Articles
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day, Part 2
It’s here, it’s here! Multicultural Children’s Book Day is today! I was grateful to participate in this movement again this year, as in past years. The mission behind the movement is to reflect a broader spectrum of cultures and heritages within the pages of children’s literature and libraries– something I can get on board with! I already…
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Guess what day is right around the corner? Multicultural Children’s Book Day! I was thrilled to be selected to participate again this year, ever eager to expand our home library and our perspective via quality, diverse reading material from all corners of the globe. This year I’m reviewing Bonnie West & Diane Carter’s new book,…
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A Book Jamboree
My nuclear family exchanged twenty-four books betwixt us this Christmas– we’re a jolly bookish lot, it seems. The following’s a smattering of those titles, plus a few additional reads we’ve recently enjoyed… To: Handsome Husband; From: Heart-Eyed Wifey To: Heart-Eyed Wifey; From: Handsome Husband To: Mama Mia; From: Papadapolis (father-in-law) To: Firstborn; From: Your Bookish Parents To Firstborn;…
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Feasting, Hall-Decking, & Hustlin’
For the first time in nearly a decade, we ventured over the mountains to feast with Husband’s folks for Thanksgiving. Once home, we availed ourselves of a stately conifer and set to decking the halls for Christmas. Besides merry-making, hall-decking, and shuttling offspring hither and yon to activities, I’ve been reading even more than usual…
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No Hands but Ours: Attachment Through the Years
Recently, online champions of adoption No Hands But Ours featured our story as it pertains to: Attachment Through the Years. Check it out here, alongside similar stories, or read on… It’s been four and a half years since we first met our son in China. Sometimes that feels like a split-second ago… I freshly recall the nervous,…
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The Ministry of Ordinary Places (book review)
What to Read Wednesday in the house! I’m pressing pause on the back-to-school frenzy for a hot minute to share yet another incredible new book: The Ministry of Ordinary Places. Author Shannan Martin is an ordinary gal– an ordinary gal with an extraordinary grip on being real, being present, and being a good (literal & metaphorical) neighbor. Neighboring…
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I’d Rather Be Reading
For this week’s installment of What to Read Wednesday, I’m reviewing Anne Bogel’s latest book, I’d Rather Be Reading, wherein she shares universal “delights and dilemmas of the reading life.” Bookworm to bookworm, Anne Bogel gets me. “How good it is to be among people who are reading.” I joked upon receipt of my advanced copy* that it’s…
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Who was Marie Antoinette? (a book review)
I’m tickled pink to be reviewing another Who Was? Who Is? Where Is? biography alongside blogging pals online. These books are terrific additions to any home library and particularly great resources for home-education. I previously reviewed Who Was JRR Tolkien? and Who Are Venus & Serena Williams? for this fun blog series, but this go-round I chose the volume from…
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Who Was JRR Tolkien? (book review)
Confession: My family is Tolkien crazy, and “Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien?” is not a question one should ponder aloud in my presence. We love hobbits, elves, dwarves, and ents, wizards, dragons, elevensies, and one of our kids is named after a Lord of the Rings character. Both the books and films of The Hobbit and Lord of the…
