We pick up my reading kind of life as our family moved to New Hampton, Iowa. Looking back, the move itself didn’t change much for…
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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, and absolutely loved it! She touches on so many issues still facing women more than a…
Black Lives Matter
A movement, a rallying cry, a plea and an inalienable truth for America to aspire to… to embody, right now because, black lives matter. When…
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…
Fluff is Fair Game
So according to my brother-in-law, Haddi and I don’t read “normal” books and as much as I hate to agree with George on anything (love ya George…who…
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,…
Yes! Graphic Novels are Real Books
I read my first graphic novel Maus when I was student teaching in Marshalltown, Iowa during the 2003/04 school year. Maus is the story of Nazi Germany…
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…