Did I say that? Well, it’s true. My end-of-the-year brain child, the Big Book Push, was a bust. The only book I read this month that was actually on my TBR list for this year is the Jamie Langston Turner selection Winter Birds (my thoughts here). Oh, and I’ve also finished Turner‘s beautiful novel Some Wildflower [...]
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I’m not sure if any of my regular readers (!!!!) have noticed that things have been quieter than usual around these parts lately, but there is a reason for it. It might best be explained by what’s on my nightstand (besides the requisite books, which I’ll get to in a moment). For about the past month, [...]
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At the risk of being redundant, I am going to pass on to my readers what I learned over at Semicolon: audible.com is offering a FREE audiobook download through Thanksgiving, November 26, 2009, at 11:59 P.M. EST. I’ve tried it and it works! The free titles include several children’s or classic works of literature, including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Pride [...]
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Thanks to my friend Janet who blogs at Across the Page, I am joining the ranks of 1200+ bloggers as a recipient of the Superior Scribbler Award. I am honored to be included in such a lengthy list of what I can only assume are well thought-out, interesting blogs. (It’s something I aspire to and perhaps [...]
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I received the DVD Gymathtics to review for the TOS HomeschoolCrew. Gymathtics is an exercise DVD that incorporates basic math into the exercise routine. The exercise leader is an adult female and she leads a group of children from approximately age four or five through teen. The exercises themselves are appropriate for children of all ages [...]
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As a follow-up to the Read Aloud Thursday post from two weeks ago, I wanted to share a few more of the Thanksgiving books we’ve been enjoying. We haven’t even actually gotten to the books I intended to use; these are mainly just incidental library, used bookstore, or PaperbackSwap finds. The first couple of books just [...]
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As a member of TOS HomeschoolCrew, I received a CD entitled America’s Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty from the American Heritage Education Foundation for review. I borrowed this summary of the American Heritage Education Foundation’s mission from the website: AHEF is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of America’s factual and philosophical [...]
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Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner is one of those books that I had a couple of false starts on before I actually read it through to the end. (I find myself doing that fairly often, actually.) I picked it up again since it is on my TBR list for the year, so it one of my Big [...]
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I am so excited to share with you this Read Aloud Thursday our latest completed chapter book read-aloud. We finished Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall by Emily Bearn last week, and while we’re well into our next chapter book already, we won’t forget the adventures of these proper little mice any time soon. [...]
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As a member of TOS Homeschool Crew, I received a nice little package of products from Virginia Soaps and Scents to try out for review. I received several bars of soap, a shampoo bar, and a baggie of laundry soap. By now I have used all of the products at least once, so I can truthfully [...]
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