2012 Harry Potter Reading Challenge
I added one more challenge to my list for the year. The Harry Potter Reading Challenge, which is a challenge to read all seven HP books before the end of the year. I know, I...
Jan 4, 2012 4 2 min read
Children’s Lit
Audiobook Review: Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money
Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan. *sticks out tongue* Let me just say that Mr. Chickee's Funny Money (written by Christopher Paul Curtis and narrated by Joe Holt) is perfect...
Mini Book Reviews: August
I spent most of August grading. Grading, grading, grading. Every time someone asked me what I was doing, the answer was grading. Grading! Then, once grading was done, I spent...
Mini Reviews: Fiction
As I said in my previous post, I am really far behind, so mini reviews! Some of these date back to October, just to give a clue at how far behind I am. ...
Audiobook Review: Charmed Life
"You must have made a mistake," Cat said distractedly. "I didn't drown because I was holding on to Gwendolen, and she's a witch." Oh, Diana Wynne Jones, how are you so...
Audiobook Review: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
In the end, you will fail to save that which matters most. My daughter is a Percy Jackson fangirl. (How big of a fangirl? She was practically inconsolable when the series...
Book Review: Nappy
The librarian suggested Nappy by Charisse Carney-Nunes after hearing a conversation I was having with another woman in line about finding a natural hairstylist. Carney-Nunes...
Book Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The one thing he longed for more than anything else was...CHOCOLATE. We went to see a high school production of Willy Wonka, which was such great fun and so much better than I...
Nostalgia: Sweet Valley Twins and Friends: The Magic Christmas
I am reading two very serious books (serious in different ways--one is an autobiography, another is just kind of hard to read), so to give myself a break on Christmas Eve, I...