Summer Reading

If you’re looking for some summer reading, here are some favourite stories, photos, and even a short film - plus the chance for y…

Reading to Dogs May Improve Literacy

A new review of existing research finds reading to dogs may help children’s literacy – but the quality of evidence is weak.   Th…

How Audiobooks Can Help Shelter Dogs

New research shows listening to audiobooks can help dogs waiting for adoption. Imagine how it must feel to be a dog at a shelte…

Summer Reading: The Play Edition

Our summer reading list is all about play. Why do animals play? In Dog Sense , John Bradshaw writes “In wild animals, play must p…

December Book List

Zero-Budget Christmas: The Almost Entirely True Story of Our Quest to Do Our Christmas Shopping Without Spending Any Money by Ja…

My Top Books of 2013

If you're looking for a last-minute gift for the bookworm in your life, here are my top ten fiction and non-fiction reads of …

November Book List

Yes, this is late. (I spent Thanksgiving in Miami, got back on Monday, and have been scrambling ever since!) Now that I do What I…

No Spend November

I took this picture of my To Be Read pile last week. This stack has accumulated on the floor by my nightstand for over a year, an…

October Book List

Happy Halloween from Gandalf and a pumpkin! A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live by Emily P. Freeman (4…

Halloween Concert and Book Signing

Yesterday was my first real concert with the Bartlett Community Band - the third annual Halloween concert at the BPACC. Most peop…

September Book List

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (4 stars) A twisty nautilus of a novel that kind of blew my mind. On a cold, snowy English nig…

August Book List

A little late, but it's a holiday! The Best Worst Thing: A Memoir by Kristen K. Brown (3 stars) Kristen's husband, Todd…

July Book List

Becoming Myself: A Woman's Journey of Transformation by Stasi Eldredge (4 stars) I reviewed this here . Torn: Rescuing the …

June Book List

Sorry this is late! Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (5 stars) An amazing …

Beach Reads

Today's Top 10 Tuesday topic at The Broke and the Bookish is Beach Reads... so I couldn't resist chiming in!   1. Se…

May Book List

This was a quality month! Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (4.5 stars) Confession: I've never read the original Peter Pa…

April Book List

Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives by Becky Aikman (5 stars) I cannot say enough about…

World Book Night 2013

Last night I participated in World Book Night ! WBN started in England in 2011. As the website describes it, it's "an a…