Book Review: As Many Nows as I Can Get by Shana Youngdahl

As Many Nows as I Can Get - Shana Youngdahl (Dial Books, 2019) I received an Advance Reading Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. In my last young adult book review I wrote, "I do believe that a great book transcends its target audience and can be enjoyed regardless of age" and…

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Writers Fest Challenge 2019: In Conclusion

Tonight is the first event of the 2019 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Which means I've come to the end of my Writers Fest Challenge for 2019, a self-imposed challenge of attempting to read at least one book from each author. (Here's my original post about it.) So, how did I do? I…

The Literary Fiction Book Tag

Rachel at pace, amore, libri tagged me for this one and I can't resist some literary fiction talk so here we go! Her answers are great and worth reading and she links to the booktubers who started this tag and I also enjoyed their videos. (Though "book tube" is a whole other area of the…

Book Review: Say Say Say by Lila Savage

Say Say Say - Lila Savage (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book. It is available for sale now. I liked this book a lot. It was not at all what I expected but was filled with thoughtful, unexpected moments and descriptions. It wasn't the chivalry that had appealed…

Life: Science, Ice Cream, and Chalk

I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this out loud but the girls are in such a nice phase of playing together. Sure, just yesterday Pearl told me she "never, ever wants to play with Rose anymore" but she also played with Rose quite nicely about half an hour after that. Rose can't always follow the…

Life: When the Sun Shines

Talking about spring time with a friend recently I confessed that I feel like I'm a better mom when the weather is good. "Aren't we all better people when the sun shines?" she replied. Good thing the sun has been shining plenty around here. We have been fully enjoying our backyard, which is in beautiful…

2019 so far…

Puddle stomping is a popular activity around here. It feels like, once again, we have entered a new stage. Pearl will be four this month. (Four! Why does that sound so old to me?) Rose reached sixteen-months at the end of January. In many ways, they are both increasingly independent. In many other ways, they…