Author: Elizabeth Peterson

Welcome to We Peas Read

May 1, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments
Welcome to our launch of the official We Peas Read review website!  Thanks for stopping by!  We have several posts for today, including a review of The Madman’s Daughter and a list of 10 best ways for a busy parent to make time for reading! We hope you’ll follow along with…

Kids Book Reviews ~ Library Haul #8

April 22, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments
#1. Hannah’s Night by Komoko Sakai Hannah wakes up one night to find her sister, mother, and father are all asleep.  She wanders through the house, takes a pee, helps herself to a snack, looks at the moon, and plays with her big sister’s toys before she falls asleep again…

BOOK REVIEW: American Spring by Walter R. Borneman

April 20, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Book: American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution by Walter R. Borneman Genre: Historical Nonfiction Most Americans are familiar with the general idea of the events that led to the American Revolution, at least from their poetic, though not strictly factual presentation by Henry Longfellow. Listen, my children, and…

BOOK REVIEW: Fragments by Dan Wells

April 15, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Book: Fragments by Dan Wells Genre: YA, Dystopian Fragments is the 2nd book in the Partials Trilogy by Dan Wells.  You can read my review of the first book, Partials, here. Fragments picks up where Partials left off, so if you haven’t read Partials yet but plan to, you’ll probably…

BOOK REVIEW: Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley

April 14, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Book: Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley Genre: Historical Fiction, Gothic, In 1921, infamous Italian poet Galeazzo D’Asconio wrote his last and greatest play, inspired by his muse and mistress, actress Celia Sands.  On the eve of opening night, Celia vanished, and the play was never performed.  Now, two generations…

Children’s Library Haul

April 8, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments
Hi Everybody!  Welcome to my Library Haul Post.  This is where I do a short and sweet rating of the best children’s books we scored from our library trip last week.  We tend to read a lot of kids books and I haven’t quite worked up to giving them all their own post,…

Great-Grandma’s Gifts by Marianne Jones

April 7, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments
Book: Great-Grandma’s Gifts by Marianne Jones Genre: Children’s Literature Great-Grandma’s Gifts is a story about a little girl named Arlene who loves to sew beautiful things.  She sews clothes for her doll, and then she grows up and sews clothes for her own babies, and later on, her grand babies…

BOOK REVIEW: The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

March 28, 2015 Reading Life 1 Comment
Book: The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah Genre: Historical Fiction The Nightingale tells a story of sisterhood and resilience, as it introduces us to Vianne and Isabelle–two sisters who grew apart as children and felt that they were opposing forces as adults.  Vianne is married and a mother when, against all…