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January 18, 2010 @ 7:44 am | Filed under: Books
I woke up this morning to the happy news that When You Reach Me won the Newbery Award. I was rooting for it! Here’s what I had to say about it in September:
…I want to tell you …
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September 30, 2009 @ 8:53 pm | Filed under: Books
Why, I wonder, am I so compelled to write about my reading life? I suppose it has something to do with memory, with holding on to things (we recall best those things which we have narrated, as Charlotte Mason was astute enough to recognize), and also with the way putting …
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April 5, 2009 @ 6:32 pm | Filed under: Books
Spent much of this afternoon rocking a sleeping baby and finishing The Mysterious Benedict Society. Loved loved loved it. But then you knew that already.
We’ve already got the sequel on reserve at the library.
Funny aside: Scott was tickled that the book’s cool cover art was done by Carson …
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March 12, 2009 @ 10:57 am | Filed under: Books
Trying something new here…instead of straight-up book reviewing, I’m going to blog my reading notes once or twice a week. I’ve always been an unfaithful journaler of my reading because one-way dialogue (monologue I guess) isn’t terribly appealing to me. And yet, as I’m reading, there’s always so much I …
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March 8, 2009 @ 12:25 pm | Filed under: Twitter
Favorite twittered moment this week: “I have just been informed that Rilla is ‘Daddy’s dust mote and Beanie’s polka dot.’ ”
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February 23, 2009 @ 8:51 pm | Filed under: Links
Busy, happy weekend with some of Scott’s family. Wish the rest of them could have been with us. His parents and his oldest brother flew in from the East Coast for the baptism and much merriment. Uncle Jay is one of the best guys I’ve ever met. Absolutely the …
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January 8, 2009 @ 7:31 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Lots of picture books for the Cybils
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
by Alice Waters
How I Live Now
by …
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January 4, 2009 @ 6:11 pm | Filed under: Books
I didn’t read as many books last year as I usually do, because the lion’s share of my reading time was devoured by matters related to the presidential election. 2009 is already off to a better start: am halfway through my third novel already. (One of them, The Uncommon …
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August 4, 2008 @ 5:10 pm | Filed under: Connections, Handcrafts, History, homeschooling
I already put this Blue Yonder post in my Google Shared Items, but I know from my stat counter that only about a dozen of you will click through, and this post is waaaay too funny to be missed: Purple Daze.
“I want you to know that my …
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June 20, 2008 @ 7:43 am | Filed under: Special Needs Children, Uncategorized, Wonderboy
When I mentioned yesterday how many specialists my son sees at the children’s hospital, commenter Anna marveled,
Melissa, ELEVEN specialists? Next time I grouse about two specialists, I’ll shut up. 
Oh no, please don’t shut up. Grouse along with me! Medical appointments expand to fill the space around them, …
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