Rebecca Reads

I thought I’d participate in Weekly Geeks this week. In the wake of rethinking my “book blog goals,” as I talked about yesterday, I’ve decided I’m going to not do these weekly memes unless I already was going to post something like this anyway. (I haven’t been participating for weeks anyway; I have had so [...]

Answers
to Sunday’s post
1. (a) A.A. Milne (b) Simon Winchester (c) Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Guy de Maupassant
3. (a) Amy Tan (b) Terry Tempest Williams (c) Sherman Alexie (d) Robert Hass
4. Robert Hass
6. Winston Churchill
The winner was gag who guessed all correct (!) except Terry Tempest Williams. NIce job! And nice job for the rest of you.
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My husband, my ten-month-old, and I have all been sick this weekend. To my surprise, I couldn’t bring myself to finish my book and post the review as I’d planned. Every time I started to read, my eyes would close. I also usually read a book aloud to my son as he plays and [...]

The only magazine I subscribe to is a religious one for church. I wasn’t going to respond to Weekly Geeks this week because I didn’t have anything to add. But reading the other posts has reminded me of what I’d like to read.

Weekly Geeks this week is about Challenges.
I have been hesitant to sign up for challenges because I’m a perfectionist. While I know there are no “challenge police” coming to check that I’ve finished my reading, I can’t bring myself to say “I’ll read these books” if I don’t think I’m going to have time. (And [...]

Depression is one of the most common social and emotional problems around the world. One in five people will experience major depression at some point in their lives. Women are especially susceptible (especially after childbirth), but everyone can and does succumb to periods of discouragement for any number of reasons.
Because depression is such a part [...]

For this week, Dewey suggested we reflect on a book from our childhood. I could write about any number of books, but here is one that somehow, I haven’t forgotten, although I haven’t read it since third grade.

Dewey has encouraged us to share reviews. If you have a review of a book that I’ve reviewed, leave a comment with a link to it. Also, if I don’t have your website in my blog roll of Readers, leave me a comment. I’ll add you!