Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
Last year, I reviewed Across the Universe, the first book in the Across the Universe series (follow the link for my Across the Universe review). A Million Suns is book two of the trilogy and I’m as surprised as you are when I tell you that it’s a superior novel to the first. I don’t [...]
Fred Penner’s name alone makes me think of the music of both my childhood and of my kids. When I heard that Fred Penner is starring in the upcoming production of The Cat Came Back, I immediately thought that I had to take my kids to the show. I can’t think of a better way [...]
From discussions I’ve had with people this week, it sounds as though I am one of the very few of my friends that didn’t read The Borrowers when I was a child, so I went into the screening for The Secret World of Arrietty (which is based on The Borrowers) without knowledge or expectation. After [...]
If you have kids, you probably don’t need any reminders that Valentine’s Day is only days away. Yes, this is the time to celebrate all things L-O-V-E, and the Valentine’s crafts, baking, card making, gift bag assembling is well underway over here. Between school and Sunday School, my kids have four Valentine’s (or Friendship) themed [...]
My cover of Thirteen Reasons Why proclaims that it is “eerie, beautiful, and devastating”. It is. Never has a blurb captured the essence of a book as well as that one. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, is the story of a life, the story of a suicide, and the story of the confusion and [...]
