..is that sometimes you find things you really should use. Like gift cards you’ve apparently been hoarding. Gift cards to Barnes and Noble. Gift cards that will allow you to…buy new books. In case you missed my post a few
2019 Reading in Review
It’s that time, squiders! Every year, I round up the books I read the year before and run statistics, because I am a nerd and I like them. (As always, if you’d read something really great recently that you think
Foundational Books: Everything by Bruce Coville
I initially got into Bruce Coville’s books the way a lot of my generation did–through the My Teacher is an Alien series. I think they may have been the first books I read that took real life and combined it
Foundational Books: The Ancient One by T.A. Barron
Good afternoon, squiders! Today we’ll discuss The Ancient One by T.A. Barron. (To be fair, we’ve discussed before. It was part of our Adventures of Kate readalong in 2016.) My middle school had a program where they’d pick a local
Foundational Books: Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
(What, they made a movie of this too? I missed that completely. Wonder if it was any good.) You know I love ghost stories, squiders. And Mary Downing Hahn is perhaps the best children’s ghost story/horror author out there. (She
Foundational Books: Two-Minute Mysteries (and The Society of Misfit Stories)
(As an aside, does anyone have ideas for testing out the temporary tattoo pen I bought? My stupid brain is stuck on the dark mark from Harry Potter, and since it is hot and I am around other parents a
Library Book Sale Finds: Barbary by Vonda N. McIntyre
Good morning, squiders! I finally stopped checking a million books out from the library, so I’m getting back to reading books I actually own. And, as such, I dug into my big pile of library book sale books from a
Foundational Books: Harry Potter Series
Happy Friday, squiders! This week we’re going to talk about the Harry Potter series. Like LOTR, this is perhaps a bit obvious, but hey, it’s still true. (We’ve discussed Harry Potter here before–I think the first readalong we ever did
Foundational Books: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
I am a secret horror lover, squiders. But only a very particular type of horror. You won’t catch me watching horror movies (I had to sleep with my TV on for three nights after seeing The Ring–because if the TV
Foundational Books: The Lord of the Rings
I know this one sounds a little stereotypical, but bear with me, squiders. Somewhere in my early teens I received a box set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (and The Hobbit). I still have the books, though not
