Book Talk

This week’s book focuses on one of our favorite things – maps and geography! My boys have been interested in geography lately. It all started with this awesome video of US geography and continued on to this even more awesome video about world geography. My oldest has listened to the Tour the States song so many times, […]

I’ve read more nonfiction so far this year than all of last year in total, and I have enjoyed every single one so much! I used to be a strictly fiction reader, but I have discovered the pleasure of nonfiction with these books: The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan about the Israel/Palestine conflict with very […]

I got to participate in the newly launched Blogher BookClub Review program. We read A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz. I loved the book, and you can read my review here and all other reviews here. Next month we’ll be reviewing A Discovery of Witches. Stay tuned!

We love books. A lot. There are piles of them around our house. It drives me crazy, but there are worse things…at least my kids LOVE to read. (or look at pictures for now) We checked this one out from the library this week, and Elliot can’t get enough of it. It’s a little scary, […]

I read 53 books last year, and these were my top 10 favorites, in no particular order: The Books of Bayern (#1-4) by Shannon Hale The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Fire by Kristing Cashore Airman by Eoin Colfer The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley […]