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By C. Janelle Posted on February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Bookends: January 2023

In January I focused on reading from the Tournament of Books Shortlist. I made some decent progress and completed 10 of the 18 titles. I finished 7 in December (well, … Continue reading Bookends: January 2023

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Books, reading
By C. Janelle Posted on January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

2022: My Year in Books

This year was a more adventurous year than I’ve had since 2019. My family traveled for three weeks this summer (two weeks road tripping through western states hiking in high … Continue reading 2022: My Year in Books

Categories: BooksTags: Annual report, bookends, Books, Build Your Library curriculum, reading, TheStoryGraph, year in books
By C. Janelle Posted on October 2, 2021October 2, 2021

Bookends: September 2021

With the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this month, I saw two things: a lot of posts and commentary about the sense of unity that existed in the United … Continue reading Bookends: September 2021

Categories: BooksTags: 9/11, book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, Racism, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021

Bookends: August 2021

This month, the theme in our family seems to be reinventing ourselves. My teen has asked to be called by a different name and has started exploring personal style via … Continue reading Bookends: August 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, Friendship, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

Bookends: July 2021

July has been a strange month. My spouse was going to go back to work on-site, but Delta variant caused the call-back date to be pushed back a few months. … Continue reading Bookends: July 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, memoirs, mice, mystery, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on July 4, 2021

Bookends: May and June 2021

After three of our four family members got vaccinated, my spouse and I started thinking of things we could do as a couple that would still protect our youngest until … Continue reading Bookends: May and June 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, memoirs, mice, mystery, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on May 3, 2021

Bookends: April 2021

Well, our foster mice weren’t (and aren’t) pregnant. Now they’re available for adoption but still living in my daughter’s bedroom. The cats have almost entirely lost interest in the new … Continue reading Bookends: April 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, memoirs, mice, mystery, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on April 15, 2021

Bookends: March 2021

You might have noticed that it’s halfway through April and I’m just now putting up the March Bookends post. I’m not sure what’s up with me lately, but I am … Continue reading Bookends: March 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, memoirs, mice, mystery, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

Bookends: February 2021

Going by my middle name is getting a rocky start. I decided to ease my way in by introducing myself by my middle name to people who don’t already know … Continue reading Bookends: February 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, mystery, reading, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Bookends: January 2021

January brought us cats. That makes it sound like I had a lot less responsibility for this turn of events than I did. I’ll rephrase: After months of looking at … Continue reading Bookends: January 2021

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, mystery, reading, Tailored Book Recommendations, US History
By C. Janelle Posted on January 1, 2021

2020: My Year in Books

At the beginning of 2020, I set my Goodreads challenge goal at 52 books, just over half as many books as I read in 2019. I hypothesized that the book-a-week … Continue reading 2020: My Year in Books

Categories: BooksTags: Annual report, Beanstack, bookends, Books, Build Your Library curriculum, Goodreads, LibraryThing, litsy, reading, TheStoryGraph, year in books
By C. Janelle Posted on January 1, 2021December 31, 2020

Bookends: December 2020

December brought my pandemic birthday, pandemic Christmas, pandemic New Year’s Eve, and the rain I’ve so anxiously been hoping for. I couldn’t stand rain when I lived in Ohio. A … Continue reading Bookends: December 2020

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Build Your Library curriculum, Indigenous Authors, mountains, mystery, reading, Tailored Book Recommendations, US History

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