A Pretty Typical Atypical Day in My Life

I usually post strictly about books (and occasionally teaching), but I thought it would be fun to participate in the A Day in the Life challenge/event hosted by Trish over at Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity. Basically, bloggers show what a typical day in their lives looks like.

Day-in-the-Life-Event

The day I’m sharing is atypical for me because my daughter is on spring break and is out of town on a service trip with the church’s youth group. So the part of my day that’s devoted to mom-type stuff is missing. (Also, I usually wake up an hour earlier. No taking daughter to school = sleeping in!) However, this day wound up being pretty typical because unexpected life stuff came up that kept me from having the kind of day I planned. So, you know, typical.

So here’s what my day looked like on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

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Housecleaning: Bloggiesta-style

Bloggiesta-S15 I am super behind on everything (and by everything, I mean grading, of course). Still and all, I am going to try to carve out some time to do stuff around my blog for Bloggiesta. I’m digging the fact that it’s a week this time, so I can really do 15-30 minutes a day on some stuff.

My to-do list:

1. Import reviews from old blog — I forgot I had started a blog over at blogspot when I jumped into book blogging and was trying to figure out where I wanted to hang my hat. As such, I want to get those posts/reviews over here so everything is all in one place.

2. Make a button for roundup posts — for visual interest, you know.

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“Don’t let the muggles get you down!”

I went out of town last weekend, and, as I was waiting for my flight, I decided to (re)read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling.

After finishing it, all I can say is that Rowling is a mothereffing genius. Like, for real.

***Spoilers for the entire series included in this post***

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Recommendation Wednesday: Princeless

About 3/4 of the way through Princeless by Jeremy Whitley (illustrated by M. Goodwin), I could not stop smiling. Then, when I finished the book, I closed it with a satisfying “YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.”

(Or YAAAAAAAAAAAAS as the youngers say.)

There is so much to dig about this book. Let’s start here:

Princeless by Jeremy Whitley

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All Time Fave Books from the Past Three Years

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday challenge was to list our top ten faves from the past 3-5 years. While I have loved quite a few books from those years, calling out faves was difficult for me. Just because I really like or even love a book doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a favorite.

So, I had to figure out what makes a book a favorite. For me, a favorite is a book I know I will absolutely reread someday. I’m not a big re-reader, so that seems like the best criteria for deciding what makes the list.

Here are the five books I am planning to reread some day (all of which I have actually reviewed! Links go to my reviews):