Honestly, I cannot believe that after 10 months The Book War is tied and now we’re in the final push to the finish line. And…
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Mood Reading
I have always loved the month of October…the pumpkins, leaves, brisk air, football, my birthday! October is basically the best month of the year and…
Feelin’ the Pressure Sis?
So a little birdie…okay Leonel, because I call himย every Sunday when I’m on silent retreat, just like my dad called my mom when we little…
A Reading Kind of Life – Act 2
We pick up my reading kind of life as our family moved to New Hampton, Iowa.ย Looking back, the move itself didn’t change much for…
A Cautionary Tale?
When learning about World War II in school, how many of us asked ourselves (and our history teachers) how could so many good people stand…
Oh, the many ways we read!
You may be wondering where the heck Hannah and I have gotten off to…or perhaps you’re just relieved that our blog posts haven’t been inundating…
A Room of One’s Own: An in-depth comparative analysis or NOT
I recently read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own,ย and absolutely loved it! She touches on so many issues still facing women more than a…
Manga: A brief assessment
I mentioned in an earlier post that my niece had loaned me a Manga series that I was going to delve into to expand my…
It keeps going, and going, and going…
As a general rule, I LOVE a big, fat, 1000+ page, way too long for it’s own good, book!!! Just to give you an idea,…
Last Train to Istanbul
Have you ever started a book, read a few chapters, felt like you knew what the book was about only to figure out later that…