You know those personality tests you take (mostly online now, but I’m from the stone age when I had to take some of mine on a Scan-tron), and they supposedly tell you what careers you’d be good at or what traits are your strongest? Well mine always came/come back teacher, or counselor. Which was a good thing, as I always knew I’d be a teacher, and when it came to my family and friends, even as a kid, I might as well have hung out […]
“Oh God; Middle School. “
That’s what a lot of books for kids boil down to: Just “Oh God; Middle school”. And for good reason. I didn’t go to middle school – in my city, elementary school was K-8 and then it was high school that hit you like a hydrogen bomb (although you may, questionably, at least have had a few more years of ‘maturity’ to help you deal with it by then) – but it’s still all the same principle. You’re going along, living your regular kid life, […]
Mmm… books about books
At the risk of becoming too meta, I’m going to talk a little bit about one of my go-to books for choosing other books to read.* I tend to think – judging by the Cannonballers I actually know, the general bookish-ness around here, and the sheer amount of things that Must. Be. Read – that a lot of you CBReaders are similar to me, in that you tend to read quite a bit. (And write rather less often than you should/would like too, but that’s […]
For the little Wednesday Addams in your life
I’ve noticed that all sorts of previously non-gift giving holidays have somehow, in recent years, become gift giving holidays; Easter baskets that used to be filled with candy now aren’t complete without toys and/or treats; all of a sudden St. Patrick’s Day has its own aisles in stores, ripe with all the green-colored candy you could crave; even Halloween has gone from strictly candy only to ‘maybe I’m supposed to buy the kids in my life something? Or send them a card? When did Halloween […]
Nesting
Nest is the debut work by author Esther Ehrlich, and it is a touching, tender piece of children’s fiction. Sixth grader Naomi “Chirp” Orenstein lives on cozy Cape Cod with her family – Mom, Dad, older sister, Rachel – and always has. And she has no idea just how many things in her comfortable life are about to change, when her mom falls ill and things start unraveling. The book is split into two halves – The first half of the book is set in […]
(Not A) Wallbanger
Last week on Twitter, someone I follow (and think is kind of hilarious) mentioned that her friend had a new book out, and maybe some of her followers might be interested. – This is not all that unusual, since I follow a lot of authors, and there’s always a lot of cross-promotion on any social media platform these days. I tend to click the link, move it to a new group amongst my Firefox’s 5000 open tabs, and add it to the TBR Mountain when […]
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