Tween
In the last week, I’ve definately had my emotional-teenage-drama fix to last me many months. This involved my own students as well as the books I’ve been reading lately. Four books in 7 days makes Lauren a little cross-eyed, but what can you do when a story is too good to put down? I completed…
Tween - continue readingLetters to Judy
When I look back on my own childhood, I can tell you within a milla-second that junior high was the hardest part of growing up. Hormones raging, clicks forming, realizing that boys aren’t so yucky after all…a ton of emotions coming at you at once, all while trying to pass algebra. This was my main…
Letters to Judy - continue readingMy Blume Fix
I still can’t get over the convenience of a library. No money required, no body scans for concealed weapons; just your literacy and a library card and the mind is opened to a million possibilities. For my latest library excursion, I chose to hone in on one author, one who I was well acquainted with in my younger years. Judy…
My Blume Fix - continue readingWater for Elephants
Water for Elephants. A title always catches my eye when it seems like a random thought thrown into the wind. But, throw in the setting of a traveling circus, and suddenly everything falls into place. It’s not hard to compare our current lives to the Great Depression: loss of jobs, difficult economy…although back then, lots…
Water for Elephants - continue readingMy Sister’s Keeper
This one, I couldn’t put it down. Unlike Julie and Julia, I have not yet seen the motion picture reenacment of My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, and I’m glad I haven’t. For those who don’t know, My Sister’s Keeper is about 13-year-old Anna who was genetically engineered via preimplantation to be a perfect genetic…
My Sister’s Keeper - continue readingThe Glass Castle
It’s almost perfect that I finished this book during Thanksgiving weekend. Never before have I truely appreciated my life growing up, the food I always had to eat, the safeness of home. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is one of the most emotionally tugging, conscience pulling, and rippling books I’ve ever read. A true…
The Glass Castle - continue readingJulie and Julia
On very few occasions do I find a movie to be better than the book it was based off of. The most recent being the HUGE release of Harry Potter 7 Part 1, which I love, but just in a different way than I love the book. (Side Note: my husband has not read the…
Julie and Julia - continue readingI love the smell…
I had an epiphany a few days ago. Here I am, over two years out of college, over a year since my last credential class, and it suddenly dawned on me: I had lost the love of reading. I only work 15 hours a week, and what am I doing with all this time? Television.…
I love the smell… - continue readingSummer Sisters
I’ve never done a book review, and I don’t really want to. Instead, I would just like to advise all women to read Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I really connected with one of the characters, Vix, about never quite fitting in, always second guessing myself. The story made me realize what wonderful friends I have, what…
Summer Sisters - continue reading