Welcome to Nonfiction November! Our hosts–Rennie at What’s Nonfiction?, Katie at Doing Dewey, Veronica at The Thousand Book Project, Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks, and Jaymi at The OC Book Girl–have five weeks of fun topics for us to explore. I’m writing about women in history for Veronica’s prompt: “Three ways to join in this week! You can either […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 14, 2021! My little sister turns 40 today! I can’t believe it! She’s with her husband visiting an old friend at her home in St. Croix, USVI for two weeks. There are worse places to spend your 40th birthday. As I write this on Friday night, I have […]
Welcome to Nonfiction November! Our hosts–Rennie at What’s Nonfiction?, Katie at Doing Dewey, Veronica at The Thousand Book Project, Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks, and Jaymi at The OC Book Girl–have five weeks of fun topics for us to explore. This week, we’re pairing nonfiction and fiction books. “This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 7, 2021! Last week I asked if you thought I should attend YALLfest, a young adult book festival, even as an adult reader, and you all agreed that I should. I’m looking at the festival schedule now and figuring out which panels I’d like to attend. But I […]
Welcome to Nonfiction November! Our hosts–Rennie at What’s Nonfiction?, Katie at Doing Dewey, Veronica at The Thousand Book Project, Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks, and Jaymi at The OC Book Girl–have five weeks of fun topics for us to explore. This week I’m writing about my year in nonfiction. I participated in this event for the […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 31, 2021! Are you and/or your kids dressing up? I love costumes but I’ll probably just stick with my “Boo!” shirt this year. My husband and I spent an afternoon on Folly Beach this week. It was so nice to soak up the sun and listen to the […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 24, 2021! The past few weeks have been such a whirlwind of packing, unpacking, packing again, and seeing all our friends and family that we’ve basically just relaxed around our camper as much as we could this past week. We took our bikes out for a 19-mile ride […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share ten bookish resources this week. Hmmm… I’m scratching my head a bit over this one. I really do just fly by the seat of my pants with this blog, feeling accomplished if I get one week of posts scheduled ahead of time. Life is short, […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 17, 2021! We’ve moved on to my husband’s next work assignment. We’re in Charleston, SC! It’s nice to wear shorts and tees after spending the summer in Alaska in long sleeves and jeans. I don’t know how long the shorts weather will last but we’re soaking it up […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten book settings this week. I chose a mixture of fantasy and real-world locations. Let’s go exploring! I have an affiliate relationship with Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in beautiful Asheville, NC. I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase merchandise […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 10, 2021! We wrapped up our final week back home in Asheville, NC and had a wonderful time seeing our friends and family! We were supposed to go hiking with one friend on Tuesday so I hoped to have some pictures to show off. Unfortunately, it rained almost […]