Category: Reading Life

I love reading and sharing about what my reading life has looked like each month.  I read in a variety of genres, too many books at a time, and love every second of it.  As mothers, I believe that developing our own reading life is one of the greatest things we can do in order to serve our families well.  There are thousands of different ways to be a reader, mine is only one of them, but I believe we can learn a lot from the way other people fit reading into daily life. I aim to share how I fit reading voraciously into my life as a home-educating mother of four.

BOOK REVIEW: The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

May 11, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
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Kids Book Reviews ~ Library Haul #9

May 6, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments
This week, just for kicks, I thought we’d change it up a little and focus on the nonfiction children’s books we’ve found. I’ve been trying to be more intentional about adding nonfiction to Sophia’s reading pile as we move into the age of “preschool”. Granted, any reading at all is…

10 Ways to Find More Reading Time

May 1, 2015 Kids Book Reviews No Comments
Is your stack of books to read beginning to resemble the leaning tower of Pisa?  Mine absolutely does.  Virtually and literally, I might add.  Just take a look at my Goodreads profile if you don’t believe me.  500 books to read?  Don’t mind if I do!  Do I continue to…

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,…