With October’s Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon, I have read my way out of my September slump, but I’ve developed an unhealthy taste for YA novels. Unhealthy not because YA is inherently non-nutritious … Continue reading Bookends: October 2017
3:00pm, October 22: I tacked seven more hours onto my reading time to make up for sleeping overnight, and I finished two more books (one of which is shown below). … Continue reading Dewey’s Readathon Wrap-up (Oct 2017)
1:30pm: I finished one whole book! Fierce Kingdom is awesome, and if you’re familiar with my book reviews, you know that I rarely call a book “awesome.” It drew me through … Continue reading Readathon Check-in: One book down!
A lot happened in September. Heck, a lot has happened in the first three days of October. The hits just keep on coming. On the reading front, September was a … Continue reading Bookends: September 2017
Not only was this a great book to take with me to Utah, it’s also one of the books from my TBR list! The TBR List Declutter is working! Shortly … Continue reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
August ended with uncharacteristically awesome weather. 70s and low humidity doesn’t often happen in Massachusetts, and we had a nice long stretch of it. I missed the last couple of … Continue reading Bookends: August 2017
July was a mix of hot, muggy days interspersed with phenomenal, California-like weather that left me feeling renewed and (almost) ready to put up with the mugginess again. It’s difficult … Continue reading Bookends: July 2017
The Lowland was the SBC selection for May 2017. Visit the SBC Page (linked above) for more books we’re reading/have read. This novel took me forever to read. I started … Continue reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
It’s finally strawberry time in Massachusetts! We’ve picked four weeks in a row and brought home a total of sixty-one pounds of strawberries. I froze a bunch of them and … Continue reading Bookends: June 2017
May found me celebrating my daughter’s twelfth birthday and realizing that there’s less than 1.5 inches between her height and mine, writing and mailing our homeschool annual reports to the … Continue reading Bookends: May 2017
April in Massachusetts was a stop-and-start process towards spring. We heard spring peepers peeping, watched the maple trees bloom and then make itty-bitty seeds, and now we’re seeing leaves galore. … Continue reading Bookends: April 2017
My time in central Massachusetts, experiencing the discourtesy people here call “direct,” has been six years of cultural fatigue. There are things that I love about the area, but the people are consistently prickly. Yes, … Continue reading Bookends: March 2017
Imperfect Happiness 