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.

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…

Kids Book Reviews ~ Library Haul #6

March 26, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
#1. Up, Down, and Around by Lisa Ayeres Have a toddler that is constantly asking where her favorite foods come from?  Up, Down, and Around goes through all our favorite veggies and talks about whether they grow up above the ground (corn, peppers, okra) or down under the ground (beets,…

Kids Book Reviews ~ Library Haul #5

March 18, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments
#1. Space Song Rocket Ride by Sunny Scribens Sung to the tune of the “Green grass grew all around” children’s song, this is a cute, educational ditty about the solar system.  Since Sophia has been really interested in the idea of space, stars, and the moon, this was really fun.…

BOOK REVIEW: The Boys In the Boat by Daniel James Brown

March 9, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Book: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their epic quest for the gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Genre: Historical Nonfiction Description (bookflap): Out of the depths of the Depression comes the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West…

BOOK REVIEW: Partials by Dan Wells

February 22, 2015 Reading Life 1 Comment
Book: Partials by Dan Wells Genre: YA, Dystopian Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America…