If there's one thing that has helped me keep my sanity while being cooped up over the past two months, it's our daily book time and seeing my kids deepen their love of reading. Because I've been getting lots of requests for book suggestions, I thought I'd share a few of our very favorites from our shelves (newly reorganized, thanks to quarantine angst)! I've found a lot of joy in sharing … [Read more...]
How to Make a Yearly Reading List (as a Grown Up)
image source After I posted my 2017 reading list, I had a few questions on social media about how I come up with my yearly lists, why I make them, and how it works for me. I thought it might be helpful to walk you through it in case anyone is a bookish list-making mood! Why Make a List? I make a yearly list for a few reasons. While I’m not by nature a list maker, giving myself a little yearly … [Read more...]
My Reading List for 2017 (And What I Read in 2016)
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I'm so excited about my reading list for 2017! I've already gotten started on my first book (a Dorothy Sayers mystery). I feel FREE because for the past two years I've included a huge and overwhelming classic that TOOK OVER the year. In 2015 it was Les Miserables and in 2016 it was The Brothers Karamazov. I'm not doing that to myself this year. There's … [Read more...]
Books for Aspiring Pirates and Fairies
I love to make book lists and I thought it would be fun to compile some of our favorite picture books and read alouds about pirates and fairies! Ye Ol' Pirate Books My oldest kids, Benjamin and Lucy, love to play pirates in the backyard. Usually there's a sizable altercation about who gets to be Captain Hook. Swords are wielded. Epic battles fought. These are some of our favorite library finds … [Read more...]
A Downton Abbey Children’s Book List
Since I'm bursting at the seams to start watching the new season of Downton Abbey, I thought I'd repost a wonderful guest post today from my dear friend (and new mama!) Katherine Grimm Bowers, children's literature expert extraordinaire. It combines two of my very favorite things: Edwardian Children's Lit and Dame Maggie Smith. Enjoy! - Haley I’ve been watching a lot of Downton Abbey, lately, … [Read more...]
