Window Thinking
And so 2017 was yet another “not much reading” year for me. But there were some good reads in there — a few highlights: Picture books! I started my job as a library shelver in July and for a couple months I brought home a different picture book to read each day. But that could …
Several weeks ago my dad sent me a text to say he’d just finished reading Kerry Egan’s new book, On Living, and it made him think of me. My dad works as a chaplain in a senior housing community and Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain, but Dad said the book was about more than …
I read good books in 2016. These were my favorite: When Breath Becomes Air Orbiting Jupiter Pax Silver People: Voices From the Panama Canal Just Mercy Behold The Dreamers What Alice Forgot On Living A Few Quick Observations: 3 of my favorites were Middle Grade/YA: Orbiting Jupiter, Pax, Silver People The book that set me …
I finished reading a couple books yesterday. Just in time to mark them on my 2016 Reading List. Just in time to make this NOT MY WORST READING YEAR since I started keeping track. BUT WAIT! I just looked it up and nine years of tracking titles says: Nothing weird about this year! Weird was 2013 …
It seems my reading rhythm requires a writing reflection on January 6. Second annual. Or is this the first annual if it’s the second time I’ve done it? Or is it even a numbered annual if it happened on the same date accidentally? In any case, I counted 86 books last year. Here’s some breakdown: 17 audible 29 …
Last week I finally updated my 2014 Reading List here. It’s so hard for me to make a favorites list because I read books for a variety of reasons and so I’ve got a lot of different angles to evaluate. This is the first year I’ve noticed that I’ve spent a lot of time reading books that I haven’t bothered to …
After turning in my best reading year ever, it felt like 2014 got off to a really slow start. At the end of the first week I had only completed one book and it was a Little House on the Prairie read aloud I’d started with the boys in December! David enjoyed the lead and …
2013 was an amazing year of reading for me. I read 121 books; 94 authors. On New Year’s Eve my sisters, who read stacks of books themselves, asked for an infographic of my list and no doubt that would have been easier to read than this rambling and rather random review….. Genre: 18 Memoirs 75 books fiction/historical fiction …
So I like to read. A lot. In eager anticipation of her visit to Loussac Library tomorrow I’ve been reading Linda Sue Park’s books to my boys and last week in Keeping Score I read this description: The library at Grand Army Plaza was one of Maggie’s favorite places. mom had taken her there ever …
Ethan and I were in the hospital the morning after his birth when the doctor on call for our family practice clinic came to check on him. I was surprised to see this doctor because he did not practice in our clinic, but at a clinic in a nearby town. He’s a long time family …
My favorite lines in The Hobbit come at the very beginning of the story when Gandalf seeks out Bilbo and asks him to join him on an adventure: I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone. I should think so–in these parts! …