The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Until this week, it had been decades since I had read anything by John Steinbeck, and then it was only under duress. I kid. Well, sort of. My introduction to Steinbeck was probably The Red Pony,...
View ArticleWatership Down by Richard Adams
My girls and I just wrapped up our last official read-aloud of the school year (though by no means are we wrapping up our reading aloud)! This year we’ve been studying world geography via Build Your...
View ArticleThe Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
Sometimes I’m just in the mood for a well-crafted, engrossing story. (Sometimes I’m not–often, nothing does the trick for me like nonfiction.) This week, though, I needed something to totally suck me...
View ArticleNews of the World by Paulette Jiles
Wouldn’t you know it? What is surely destined to be on of my Best Books of 2019, and I can’t share a single quote from it because I listened to the audio version! From the beginning of News of the...
View ArticleThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
I noticed The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri as a Prime freebie on my Kindle and just started reading it on a whim. I like to have a book going on my phone for times when I don’t have an actual print book...
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