Oh my. The school year has been intense for my little first grader.  She has grown by leaps and bounds.  She has learned so much in only half a school year so far! That being said, I have almost no idea what the heck she does at school besides recess and lunch.  She doesn't much like to share her day with me.  It is is frustrating to say the least. However, one thing I know is that her skill in reading has me really impressed!  She ended up with the teacher at her school whose passion is to teach others to read.  And that passion has really shown through in my chi ..read more

  Title: The Big Book of Monsters: The Most Ghastly Ghouls, Bloodcurdling Beasts, and Wicked Witches from Classic Literature Author: Hal Johnson Illustrator: Tim Sievert Publication Date: Sept 3, 2019 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Illustrated Edition Source: Publisher 4 out of 5 cupcakes I wasn't really sure what I was going to get from this book until I started reading through it.  I knew I was going to get monsters, of course, but I didn't know which ones or pay attention to where the monsters that were going to be discussed would be coming from.  I obviously lack ..read more

 Once upon a time I had a book blog. I read a lot of books and wrote reviews on them. Sometimes I also had other book related content. In short, that blog was about books and only books. Then I got burnt out on it. About two years ago I more or less lost the desire to read. I went from reading over 100 books a year to maybe dragging myself through 10. I also didn't want to write reviews. I just felt so pointless. In the time since then, I have branched out to other hobbies. And while reading stayed. I definitely was doing it less and less. I would color, play video games, craft, do a lot ..read more

 It seems it is harder break old habits than I thought. So here I am, writing a post that involves books and reading. My typical go to genres are almost anything that is labeled young adult, paranormal, or fantasy. However, at some point during my reading slump I found myself wanting to read books in the horror, psychological thriller, suspense genres. I am not 100% why this switch happened. I think there are actually a few factors to this. The first and foremost one that comes to my mind is my 6 year old. She some how was discovering she liked kind of scary (but not too scary) things. So ..read more