Reading
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Stitching Together Fiction and Science
I’ve developed a love for listening to e-books on my deck while I cross stitch. It beats being stuck inside watching TV, right? Over the summer, I finished Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. That book- deserves a re-listen. He was throwing terms and concepts way over my head, but I Read more
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Mrs. Magoo Needs Angel Intervention
Last week I had to have surgery, and before all you concerned readers get worried: I am alive and well. My vision, however, has been shoddy. I have to put this cream in my eyes that has left me seeing everything in a blur. Yes, I am the female Magoo. But have I let 60% Read more
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Will Travel for Good Food and Free Books
Despite my state’s super high taxes and lousy roads, we have the golden opportunity to live a book lover’s dream. Some genius decided to combine the love of being a fat kid and the love of reading FREE books. To be fair, most big chain book stores have cafes in their book stores, so Read more
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Closet Readers
When I was around my daughter’s age, my parents separated, and we moved into a tiny apartment that was cozy enough for my ,mom and me. When I wanted to escape from the world, I would hide in the only closet. It had just enough space for myself, a blanket, a flashlight and a handful Read more
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Summer Reading Goals
Today is the very first day of summer! It would be something to celebrate, if we weren’t still a family of school goers for ANOTHER WEEK. Snow days seemed worth it at the time….. Since a week can feel like forever, we started to make our summer reading goals. We searched the Scriptorium’s shelves for Read more
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Middle Grade Fiction: LGBTQ+ Community
In honor of Pride month, Scholastic listed a series of books that promote the LGBTQ+ community within middle grade fiction. It is important that members of these communities are valued and represented within our literature, especially Middle Grade Fiction where adolescents are at the cusp of displaying and understanding their identities. In Children Read more
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
A sacrifice to witches, a bog monster, and a snuggle bug dragon. Barnhill uses these elements to spin a tale of a young girl Luna, trying to cope with irreversible consequences of not sticking to a standard diet of milk and pureed peas. This week the kids and I finished Kelly Barnhill’s “The Girl Read more
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Family Reading Time
In the Allaire Family Constitution, it specifically states that 7-8 p.m. is reading time. Any use of electronics at this time results in the guilty party having to cluck like a chicken… Suffice to say, we take our reading time seriously. I found a lot of information on why you should read to Read more
