Category: Book Reviews / Articles
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Summer Book Club
The Kindergarten graduates recently had another themed “book club” party, after procuring identical copies of Happy Pig Day at the library. Willing to do ‘most anything to keep them reading during the summer, we simply added piggy-themed treats and an easy craft to make it special. The rest of us are also actively racking up reading…
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Who Are Venus & Serena Williams? (book review)
For this week’s installment of What to Read Wednesday, and in conjunction with online pals, I’m reviewing a recent addition to our home library from our favorite modern historians who publish the most compelling, concise, & affordable biographies on the market… My Learning Table’s Who Was? What Was? Where Is? Blog Series runs from July to September– and is a terrific…
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What to Read Wednesday + a Book Review
The topic of this week’s WTRW is supposed to be ladybugs; but little known fact: I’m afraid of ladybugs. I mean, not when they’re merely bumbling about the garden helpfully ridding veggies of aphids– I buy them by the hundreds each year for just that purpose. Specifically, I’m Coccinellidaephobic (It’s a thing.) when OUT OF NOWHERE THEY…
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What to Read Wednesday: A Bookworm’s Holy Week
Happy Holy Week! Sunday was Palm Sunday; Holy Thursday, Passover, Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday are later this week. Accordingly, for this week’s What to Read Wednesday I’m sharing our favorite Easter book, as well as a few random titles we’ve recently completed. Be sure to also check out the most popular post shared last week,…
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The Barefoot Book of Children (Multicultural Children’s Book Day review)
Did you know? Today is Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Despite missing a year, I’m positively delighted to be participating once again by formally reviewing the most beautiful book… Getting quality, diverse books into the hands of young readers is a mission I can get behind, ten-thousandfold… it blesses my globally-minded, bookwormy heart! The organizers matched…
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What to Read Wednesday: A Cornucopia
This week’s What to Read Wednesday is a bit of a cornucopia. Alongside Pilgrims, Native Americans, Turkeys, and the Mayflower, I’m including a formal review of Jess Ronne’s poignant memoir, Sonlight Burning at Midnight. Friends, I devoured this book in two hefty (tear-stained) helpings. The author is so vulnerably honest and raw that you can’t…
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Reading People {a book review}
Know Thyself… To thine own self be true… Identity… Besides being a frumpy, perma-exhausted homeschool mom of three, I’m an extroverted, Highly Sensitive Person, Meyers-Briggs ESFJ, Enneagram 8, whose primary Love Language is Quality Time and spiritual gifting Evangelism. In literary worlds I’d be sorted into Hufflepuff house and Candor faction, respectively; and I’m fairly…
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The Journey to Oregon 1934, a #tbt book review
Because I’ve been quite homesick and nostalgic lately, and because this bookworm’s kept busy touting prose from authors otherwise unknown to me (save for this one), I decided it was time to give a much deserved shout-out to my talented Great-Aunt; author of a cherished family memoir that would make a terrific addition to any homeschool library. This novella is not a new release,…
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The Temporary Tightwad, a book review
I just reviewed another terrific book that y’all simply must add to your Amazon wishlist. Actually, as the digital copy is currently on sale for just .99c, you ought to just go ahead and complete the purchase… you won’t regret it. “Radically reduce your spending, meet a goal, and change your life forever.” Carrie Willard is an incredible homeschooling mom of seven…
