Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Alright, so I’m going to try yet more social media. I signed up for Instagram last night. I’ll be posting photos of what I’m reading, games and homeschooling stuff we’re playing or I’m creating, and other non-kid pictures of my life. I’m still over at Pinterest (mostly pinning educational ideas) and Twitter (not tweeting as
This month, Rebecca Reads will be participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge. The idea of this challenge is to get in the habit of writing and posting every day! Don’t worry, I won’t post if I don’t have something great to say to you! I just need to post 31 times in July and I
Just after my daughter was born in 2012, a friend told me in all honesty that it takes a full two years to feel like yourself again after a baby joins your family. Well, it’s been just over two years, and I feel that is true: I’m finally starting to feel like myself again, in
It used to be I’d go to a library book sale and come back with large classical tomes I was excited to read. Now a days, it is these simple childhood classics that fill my bags. The types of books I find at the book sale may change, but we’re definitely still reading around this
I finished reading a lengthy nonfiction book about two weeks ago, and I am still only half way through Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. I really enjoyed The Cave and the Light. It was deep but I learned much about philosophy and history by reading it over the course of two months. I have started
This is the place! If you have read and posted about poetry in August 2013, leave a link to your blog post. Learn more about this poetry project here. Just a reminder: you can read and post about one poem, a collection of poems, an anthology, or even a nonfiction book about poetry or a
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is about beginnings and endings of books. I’m going to focus on beginnings. Visit Top Ten Tuesday for more top ten lists.
Somehow, at every library book sale I come away with poetry books: anthologies, individual authors, it doesn’t matter. Somehow I buy them! This year in April, I did not focus on reading poetry as I have in the past. It’s about time. This August, I pledge to read poems and write about them on this
My baby girl is about 17 months old now. When my son was a bit older than this, I began my 1000 Books Project. It was a wonderful experience to track the books we read together. By the time we finished 1000 different books together, my son was reading on his own. Fast forward to
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