On Shabbos as I powered through a sweet middle-grade novel, I realized that I can basically divide my reading habits into weekday and Shabbos reading. Weekday reading is mostly non-fiction of the self-help variety, the kind that I skim, or dip into, think about, write about, sometimes blog about…while Shabbos reading is all about good stories that engage me for …
A favorite picture book of mine is The Empty Pot by Demi. I won’t spoil it if you’d like to read it, but I like to think it is a story about how sometimes you can do everything right and still not get the outcome that you wanted, and there is a bigger reason for that. You can find video …
Sometimes I’m asked how I find books to read and how I always have a pile of books checked out of the library. The truth is I am always on the lookout for interesting books. I get recommendations from various blogs, from Goodreads, and sometimes from other people. I have definitely found that the more I read, the better feel …
I like to always have a variety of books checked out of the library, even if I don’t have time to read them all. I often dip in and out of various books, and it’s pleasant just having them around for company. I call this my book buffet.
I recently discovered a podcast devoted to all things Anne of Green Gables and it gave me an idea. I want to form a book club dedicated to rereading the entire Anne of Green Gables series and discussing each book through adult eyes. We would meet every six weeks for a year to sip raspberry cordial 😉 and revisit Echo …
I finished The Giver, by Lois Lowry, for the first time last week. I had started it years ago and dropped it in middle because I found it disturbing, but one of my students had to read it so I read it too. I still find it disturbing but also moving and profound. The story centers around Jonas, an …
Hi, everyone. I didn’t finish any books this summer but I started a bunch. I’m going to finish some eventually… These are not going in my total for the year but I’m in middle of: Music Medicine: The Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself with Sound, by Christine Stevens. This is basically a book about music therapy and using …
In February I read a fun and different book, Love Will Find You, by Kathryn Alice. The book went through a number of steps and exercises for helping you surmount old obstacles and negativity about dating, become open to accepting love, and attract the right person into your life. I don’t need to tell you that I see this kind of …
In the interests of maintaining consistency, I’d like to report on what I read (or didn’t) in May and June. Remember January? Anyway, I had wanted to read 50 books this year but then COVID-19 hit and I kind of relaxed my extracurricular goals. One of the things that gave me an inkling that things would not be the …
I didn’t do too much reading over the past month. I was “going to” get into e-books since the library is closed but that didn’t happen. I’m just going to have to wait until things get back to normal to dive into my reading list in a real way. I read Forge, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the sequel to …
