Category Archives: Book Club

Don’t Tell Them What They Can’t Do

Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure

Be careful throwing around CAN’T. It’s a four letter word, you know.

Gamechanger: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Book Club Day)

Animal Vegetable Miracle book cover

‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle’ and how the Kingsolver family’s journey became, in some ways, my own.

I am a Walking Contradiction and I am OK with That. (Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking)

quiet-by-susan-cain

I’m not an extrovert, but I play one on the internet.

Book Club Day: In Stitches

anthony youn

I fluffy pink sparkly heart hardass parents. I can regurgitate Eisenhower trivia I learned 25 years ago. And I loved Anthony Youn’s memoir In Stitches

Book Club Day: The Costume Trunk

mad tea party

My daughter plays dress up. I hope that, like me, she never stops.

Unexpected Circumnavigation

unexpected navigation christi grab

I read The Unexpected Circumnavigation & experience an unexpected circumnavigation of my own. It’s creepy & cool at the same time.

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

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The novel ‘Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away’ wrecked me emotionally. In a good way.