Great Books for Kids and Teens

You can now find the content from Great Books for Kids and Teens on my other book blog, Book By Book . I have spent a lot of time thinkin...

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I really can't believe it is May already...April went by in a flash! I spent a lovely, relaxing weekend at th...

I wasn’t sure how to classify Terry Pratchett’s charming fantasy The Carpet People . It was originally written for a general audience, pub...

Ah, the quiet solitude of a Monday morning! I really need this today, after a hectic weekend. My husband is visiting his dad in Oklahom...

Whew, I'm a bit late posting today - it's going to be a super-busy week! My younger son is home on spring break, so we went sho...

I thought I was late with my monthly summary last month! ha ha Here it is, April 19 already. Where did the last 3 weeks go?? Then again,...

Wow, 80 degrees here yesterday and today - we seemed to have gone from snow and winter right to summer and skipped the nice part where ...

Ah, Monday morning...quiet house and no one to take care of but myself for a few hours. I started the day off kind of oddly...I cleaned...

I finished book 3 of the Chaos Walking series, Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, back in December. I considered just skipping the review,...

Wow, how can it possibly be the last day of March already? I am more than ready for April, since we've had such a long and hard win...

When I started Wendy Mass’s middle-grade novel The Last Present , I didn’t realize it was the last book in a series that I hadn’t complete...

So glad it is Monday - the weekend really wiped me out! Pretty sad when you need to recover from your weekend, huh? And not because I h...

Over the past two months, I listened to both Insurgent (book 2) and Allegiant (book 3), the sequels to Veronica Roth’s hot post-apocalypti...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! When I was in college, St. Patrick's Day was pretty much the biggest holiday of the year (with ...

Yet another snow storm...will this winter ever end? Yes, yes, I am late again with my monthly summary. This year got off to a rough s...

In the midst of reading several very large adult novels for my book groups, I was looking for a quick and engaging read (a palate cleanser...

Busy Monday! I usually try to post my Monday update first thing in the morning, but here it is 4 pm already. I hope this isn't a ha...

Today is Mardi Gras day, the end of a very special season of celebration in New Orleans, so it seemed like the perfect time to write a rev...

Here we are on another Monday, with snow falling steadily outside and yet another snow day with school cancelled! This winter feels li...

I recently listened to Kate DiCamillo’s latest middle-grade novel, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures on audio. Like DiCamill...