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Some Jane Austen Love for Her Bicentennial!

July 18, 2017 By Haley 3 Comments

Why Do We Still Love Jane Austen? // Carrots for Michaelmas

It's been 200 years since Jane Austen left this earth, and yet her novels are still relevant, beloved, and widely read. Janeites aren't going anywhere anytime soon (just check out this guy and his amazing Regency apparel). To honor dear Miss Austen, I thought I'd link to a few of the pieces I've written here at Carrots about one of my favorite writers of all time. Why Do We Still Love Jane … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: bookishness, emma, fanny price, good reads, jane austen, literature, mansfield park, pride & prejudice, self-knowledge, virtue

To the Bookish Mother of Littles

October 20, 2013 By Haley 41 Comments

You knew having a baby would change things. Nights out on the town would be few and far between. You wouldn’t sleep much during those newborn weeks. But if you’re like me, you weren’t expecting your bookworm tendencies to be so thwarted. Maybe you were an English major in college. Maybe you studied literature in grad school. Maybe you’ve just always been a bibliophile. But now you find yourself … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Children Tagged With: books, children, literature, reading

Reading Goals for 2013

January 15, 2013 By Haley 71 Comments

I feel pretty glum about the length of my 2012 completed reads. It was a year of sleep-deprivation and pregnancy nausea but I think that if ahead of time I'd had a plan for completing all the books I wanted to finish, maybe I wouldn't have dropped the ball? So, to have some accountability, I want to post my reading goals for 2013 and leave a little breathing room for your suggestions (I added … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: books, literature, reading, reading list

Books I Read in 2012

January 9, 2013 By Haley 50 Comments

I adore perusing everyone's reading lists from the previous year, so I thought I’d share mine as well. Though, I warn you, it’s not at all impressive! An infant that woke several times a night for the first half of the year, and the terrible morning sickness accompanying a new pregnancy during the second half of the year meant that any brain cells left for reading were in short supply. But without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: books, books i read in 2012, fiction, literature, reading list, spiritual writings

Should You Limit Your Child’s Reading Choices?

September 17, 2012 By Haley 63 Comments

  I am surprised by the popularity of a post I wrote a few weeks ago: “Why You Can’t Read Twilight: A Letter to My Daughter,” and I’m simply fascinated by some of comments it’s received. Some folks love it, but boy does it rub some people the wrong way! Many commenters think the idea that I would tell my daughter at say, age 11, that she can’t read Twilight is downright loony and they refer to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Children, Motherhood Tagged With: books, children, education, literature, Motherhood, parenting, reading, twilight

Why You Can’t Read Twilight: A Letter to My Daughter

June 20, 2012 By Haley 161 Comments

Why You Can't Read Twilight: A Letter to My Daughter // Carrots for Michaelmas

Today my baby girl cut her first tooth. I want to believe that by the time she and her little friends are old enough to read Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, everyone will have forgotten about that embarrassing literary atrocity. But, I’m afraid that might be wishful thinking. I want to have an answer prepared when my daughter says, “My friend Susie gets to read the Twilight books and why can’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: books, literature, parenting, twilight

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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