I'm taking my just turned 9 year old to Barnes and Noble today to spend the birthday $ he got from the grands, and as luck would have it my IRS refund hit the bank today. So I need all the recommendations. Prefer mysteries and sci-fi and travel memoirs. I love long series I can really sink my teeth into. Don't care for romance or domestic thrillers, but I'm pretty open to anything else. Hit me up with everything you love!
This is an excellent book for children to read interdependently (as a book club) or independently. It can be a good choice book for students around 2nd-4th grade who enjoy all things princesses and unicorns. The princess must save the day in Monster Land and be back before the nosy dutchess reveals her secret. This book is also part of a series, which is beneficial to hep with children's comprehension skills.
pickI've never read these classic books, but my husband was feeling nostalgic the other day and convinced me to read the first one. It's very whimsical and concerning 😆 I enjoyed it though. Some very dated notions of gender roles, but otherwise a lot of fun. These books will be 100 years old next year. I realized the author was around my age when she wrote the first book 😮 #Throwback #EarlyChapterBook
pickIs this series cute or is this series cute? This is the first adventure of Kitty and she first has to learn how to be a heroine. But she does great, because she also has great kitty friends to help her.
This book deals with facing fears and that it's ok to ask for help (especially if they're cats). And that there's beauty in the night. And little kittens. And black cats. And white cats. And red cats.
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Woo-who!! I can see images again! 🤩 Celebrating by posting my daughter's back to school library sale haul. She found more than I did! 📚 #raisingreaders
Being medium, according to Mouse, means you can read some books, but others also read to you. #CharactersReading
pickThis was really good fun. Really daft and funny, and a surprisingly sweet happy ending.
May as well start the 2023 challenge a couple of days early...
#ReadHarder challenge 1: a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation
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Did the author a month challenge, starts in Jan, I think? Winter Readathon, #bookbingo as well, I believe. I need to stop overcommitting though!
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I‘ve never associated much joy with Christmas. As ever being single & childless is a lonely life.
I do remember being an 👼🏻 several, several times in my *small* rural Iowa Lutheran church.
Trinity Lutheran? A miraculous memory accurate. The church in the mid-80s.
Mystery: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Sci-Fi: The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin
Travel: I actually can't think of anything here. But for some reason I keep thinking of Terry Tempest Williams - she writes a lot about nature and does so beautifully! 2mo
Sci-Fi: Lathe Of Heaven (Ursula K. Le Guin) Wild Seed (Octavia Butler)
I haven't read this one, but I have heard great things about Barry Lopez's travel book “Arctic Dreams“ Not sure if this would classify as travel memoir, but I absolutely loved Douglas Preston's account of trying to find a lost civilization with the help of many others in 2012 “The Lost City of the Monkey God“ 2mo