I’ve been planning a summer of re-reading all year. I limited myself to twenty-one (+) titles, and they are a mixture of favorite books from my childhood, my girls’ childhood, and then also favorite books from my young adulthood. I would like to do this every summer!
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2020 Favorite Books
It’s been two years since I posted last (!) but I wanted to share my favorite books of 2020. I’ve always read a lot, and it’s now my job to read, but 2020 still shifted many of my habits and my time, freeing up the 3-5 evenings I used to be gone every week. IContinue reading “2020 Favorite Books”
2018 Favorite Books
Fiction: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza follows Layla and Rafiq as they immigrate from India and make a life in America. They raise their children Hadia, Huda and Amar with all the opportunities that America affords while instilling in them a reverence for their Muslim faith. Mirza writes the relationships between the siblings soContinue reading “2018 Favorite Books”
Day 5: Weekends
Oof. So there goes my string of daily participation in the 100 Day Project. I think I will just number these until #100 – even if it’s not quite a daily thing. Weekends are hard. I have so many expectations – I am going to do it all! – but there’s still a lot goingContinue reading “Day 5: Weekends”
Day 4: End of the Week
It’s already the Friday of Spring Break. I went to the girls’ performance of Snew White at 3:15 and afterwards, I had surprise reservations at our local pottery-painting place. They love painting – Cate painted an arrow wall plaque and Jane painted a round box that will indubitably be full of “treasure.” I am soContinue reading “Day 4: End of the Week”