My Newbery Challenge Update for March
I am continuing my march through Newbery winners during my treadmill time at the gym. One of the winners that I highlight today (A Year Down Yonder), made me cry during my workout. Now I am the odd...
View ArticleTwo Newbery’s Knocked Out on the Treadmill in April
Today’s Newbery rundown include my so far favorites. I believe that I want to be E.L. Konigsburg. Besides the two books that I am writing about today, she has written several more – three that feature...
View ArticleMay Newbery Challenge – Too Many Talking Animals
Two more Newbery’s down. After these two, I am ready for some that do not feature animals as their main characters. Book: Gayneck: The Story of A Pigeon Author: Dhan Gopal Mukerji Something about the...
View ArticleMy May Reading Pile
We are now into month six of 2012 – soon to be halfway through another year. I am assessing how I have been doing on the goals that I set for this new year. Things look pretty good, and for those...
View ArticleJune Newbery Reads
My Newbery Challenge continues. I got my wish, and there were no talking animals in these two additions to my “Read” list. Book: When You Reach Me Author: Rebecca Stead Something about the author:...
View ArticleNewbery Challenge – Boys Without Parenting
It has been awhile since I have written about Newbery’s. It has partly been due to other things that I wanted to write about, and, unfortunately, also due to the fact that I have not been going to my...
View ArticleHow Do You Start A Year Right?
The wonderful list above was posted a couple years ago on Boing Boing and it is popping up again as we start a new year. The 33 rulin’s were penned by Woody Guthrie sixty-one years ago. It is a mighty...
View ArticleReading in the New Year
My 2012 reading log is weird. For reasons I can and can’t identify, I just wasn’t up to my usual level of readerliness last year. But I am ready for a new year – two books knocked out this past week....
View ArticleRulin’s Update
November 1, 2013. Two months left in the year – sixty-one days. The good(?) thing about having a blog is that it can hold the writer accountable. In January, I posted my “rulin’s” for the year, just as...
View ArticleBooks of 2019 – Numbers 33 and 34 – Journey Inward by Jean Craighead George...
Last weekend, the New York Times Book Review published an article noting the fifty best memoirs published over the last fifty years (that would be since 1969!). I am a lover of the memoir, so I was a...
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