I recently had a conversation with some fellow homeschool moms about how to improve vocabulary—in our children, and also in our own conversations and writing. The general consensus was that vocabulary is ...
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Books Beyond the Favorites: Bonus Superlatives from My 2025 Reading
My great reading slump of the tail-end of 2025 is well-documented, but stepping back to view the year as a whole, I can’t help but observe that I read a LOT of ...
2025 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year
It’s time for one of my favorite posts of every year: a big-picture recap of my year in books, with a bunch of nerdy statistics drawn from my MANY reading journals and ...
Bookish Considerations: What do you do when your reading feels broken?
I have heard many avid readers talk about the ways that books have saved them in their hardest moments. When life gets difficult, or sad, or simply busy, they are able to ...
Books Beyond the Favorites: Superlatives From My 2024 Reading
We may be a few weeks into 2025, but it’s not too late for a little end-of-year reflection. Last month I shared all of my favorite reads and bookish insights from my ...
2024 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year
One of my favorite things about December—besides the whole Christmas part, because that’s pretty great too—is the opportunity it provides for some recapping and reflection. And there are few things I find ...
Bookish Consideration: What Does “Summer Reading” Mean to You?
When I was growing up, the library Reading Program was always a highlight of the summer. Our family frequented three local libraries, and I remember participating in each library’s program at some ...
Bookish Considerations: Thoughts on Reading Challenges
Our local library is doing a Winter Bingo Reading challenge, and as I picked up our family’s Bingo cards last month, I couldn’t help but chuckle at the concept: only in our ...
2023 Reading Wrap-Up and My Favorite Books of the Year
If there’s anything I love as much as (if not more than) reading, it’s tracking and documenting my books. Which is why my annual reading recap is one of my favorite posts ...
Quotable || Reading & Friendship
“Reading well adds to our life—not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in ...