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My 7 year old chose these two books from among her birthday stash (thanks, Grandma!). While she could read them to herself, she requested that these be our next read-alouds. I admit that I prefer more difficult books for reading aloud to the kids; I like seeing them think through the complex plots or phrases, and introducing them to books I loved or concepts they haven’t g...
I’m sure most of you, even if you haven’t read Dickens, recognize the name Fagin as that of the notorious pickpocket from Oliver Twist. The character has long been controversial because of the depiction of his Jewishness. Allison Epstein’s Fagin the Thief seeks to humanize the man behind the stereotype by providing a backstory, motivation, and context beyond wh...
I broke my foot last week and had to sit on the couch with my foot up and iced for a long time. On the one hand, having a broken foot sucks, but on the other hand, I had two full days to do literally nothing but read Fool’s Fate. You have to read Golden Fool to get to Fool’s Fate, so let’s start there: Prince Dutiful’s betrothed, the Narcheska, arrives as plan...
I was at my local library branch yesterday (shoutout to Howson Branch), and while looking through the available cookbooks, came across Mason Hereford and JJ Goode’s Turkey and the Wolf, Flavor Trippin’ in New Orleans. I’ve followed the Turkey and the Wolf Instagram account for a while so, I was familiar with the book. I just hadn’t had it in my hands. When I pulled it out, I not...
Last year katie’s review of Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World put it on my radar. I was in a run of adding “bad things happen to good boats” to my reading diet (Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Ghost Ship) and this fell right into that book category. Joan Druett’s book chronicles the two different ships that wrecked on the Auckland Islands south of New Ze...
