My coffee table book that I’m reading right now is Simpler Times  by Anne Christian Buchanan featuring Thomas Kinkade’s beautiful, peaceful artwork. (I often find lots of Victorian houses that I would love to live in among his works!)  I hope to get a lot of reading done this week since I’m on school vacation [...]

Are you a fan of The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs?  I just recently read it and LOVED it. The sequel, Knit Two is coming out this month and Stephanie of Stephanie’s Written Word is giving away 5 copies. Check out her post to learn how to enter!

This one is my “purse book”  that I can pick up when I have a few extra minutes to spare. I’m reading Green Chic: saving the earth in style by Christie Matheson. It’s full of green tips; many that I I’m already doing but I’m sure I’ll pick up something new along the way. I’m [...]

Although I’m back to school and my reading time has been cut significantly, I did manage to do some reading during our trip to San Diego and little snippets at night while unplugged at home.
I blew through Educating Esme, The Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esme Raji Codell.  It was a quick memoir [...]

Currently reading The Biggest Loser by Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, the stories of the contestants from the first two seasons of my favorite show.  Also contains exercise and diet tips following the principles used on the ranch.

Since I’m here in San Diego on vacation, I’m able to catch more reading time than I do when I’m home. I know I committed to read Pillars of Earth but picked this one up first because it was calling to me and is so much shorter it doesn’t seem as daunting. I’m catching  lots [...]

Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach is my purse book to carry around with me while I’m waiting in lines and when I have a few spare minutes. I’ve always been a “green girl” and nature lover and try to live sustainably for the good of the planet.  If I can save a [...]

Since I’m going on a west coast trip this week I’ll have plenty of flight time to read so I’m going to tackle the 3rd of the three books that I committed to read in the Heard it through the Grapevine Challenge way back in the spring. I did read quite a number of books [...]

Since I’m back to school I have little to no time to read “for fun” right now. I’m swamped with getting my year underway and it’s also the beginning of the dreaded Alternate Assessment window which saps all of my time and energy.
I am managing to read little snippets of Educating Esme: Diary of a [...]

Today’s book is The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard. It’s another one that I got from a fellow teacher when I left school in June. She handed me a stack of books to read over the summer and I’m glad to be able to return them to her READ, next week. I just realized that [...]