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 …
Well, with so much time on my hands this month, you’d think I would have plowed through a stack of books…but, no. I did start a whole bunch, and also comfort-read passages out of Anne’s House of Dreams and The Blue Castle, both by L.M. Montgomery, but I only actually finished four: Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of …
We’re back with a list of what I read recently. I am definitely having a nonfiction streak (which is going strong into March). I took notes on all of them and learned a lot this month. As usual, all these books were borrowed from my local library. Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How It Shapes …
Chavi commented that it would be helpful if I’d write a review of the books I read, and I decided that that would be fun for me, too 🙂 . I have to say, this was a great reading month. Below are some comments about the books I read. Physical books were from the library, audiobooks via Hoopla. The …
A few weeks ago, I decided to add a little feature in the sidebar of this site to showcase the books I’ve been reading. I was back and forth about whether or not to do this, for a variety of reasons (see below), but ultimately my love of book-sharing won out. Which brings me to my first dilemma as …
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been engrossed in the audio version of The Body Keeps the Score, a book about trauma by Bessel van der Kolk. It’s a 16-hour listen and the subject matter is pretty intense (but fascinating!), so I’ve only listened for about an hour or two a day. I’m almost done, so feel free to …
This summer, my friend and I went to Canada during the Three Weeks, so no music in the car. Instead, we talked a lot (obviously), and sang, and listened to a shiur. About a third of the way home, we hit on another form of entertainment to keep ourselves alert: reciting all the poems we knew by heart. Now, don’t laugh. …
Before Succos, I bought Emunah with Love and Chicken Soup, the biography of Rebbetzin Henny Machlis a”h, by Sara Yoheved Rigler. I had flipped through it a few times at other people’s houses and was always inspired by whatever I read, so this 500+ page book was my reading material for Y”T. And full disclosure: I haven’t read the whole thing …
Hi, all! Thanks for checking back here! This was a really fun post for me to work on. One afternoon, I started mentally compiling a list of my favorite childhood chapter books. (“Childhood” = read when I was a child). Here is the annotated version, listed alphabetically by author: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men. The second book in …
Do you ever think about the kind of mother you’ll be? The truth is, as a teenager, the thought of being responsible for raising children one day used to make me anxious. I really wasn’t confident around kids. (Would never babysit). And I thought babies and little kids were so boring, and their mothers were more boring still. …
