Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic–ten fairytale retellings–didn’t seem that inspiring to me. I feel like I don’t read a lot of fairytale retellings. But suddenly books started popping into my mind and before I knew it, I had a list. Beauty by Robin McKinley.…
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Technically, this is last week’s topic, but I really enjoyed reading other people’s lists of their favorites so far in 2015 and decided I wanted to make my own list. A lively, engaging graphic novel about a tween who navigates changing…
Girlxoxo is hosting today’s link-up for A Month of Favorites. I had a really strong reading year in 2014–very few books that I wanted to put down. Well, except for the Newberys. Those I abandoned left and right, but since I DID put them down, I can’t very well feature them in this post. How…
Top Ten Tuesday is a book meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s prompt: Top Ten Books I’d Give to Readers Who Have Never Read X. I decided to focus on my current favorite type of reading, middle grade. I decided not to include any classic middle-grade titles, and I also set a rule…
Book shelf quilt block by Angela Every post I’ve written this week has been focused on some kind of reading list or other, so I thought I would continue the theme today. There is something about a book list that makes me want to (1) agree or argue; (2) make my own list; (3) see…
