I’ve noticed that all sorts of previously non-gift giving holidays have somehow, in recent years, become gift giving holidays; Easter baskets that used to be filled with candy now aren’t complete without toys and/or treats; all of a sudden St. Patrick’s Day has its own aisles in stores, ripe with all the green-colored candy you could crave; even Halloween has gone from strictly candy only to ‘maybe I’m supposed to buy the kids in my life something? Or send them a card? When did Halloween […]
Nesting
Nest is the debut work by author Esther Ehrlich, and it is a touching, tender piece of children’s fiction. Sixth grader Naomi “Chirp” Orenstein lives on cozy Cape Cod with her family – Mom, Dad, older sister, Rachel – and always has. And she has no idea just how many things in her comfortable life are about to change, when her mom falls ill and things start unraveling. The book is split into two halves – The first half of the book is set in […]
(Not A) Wallbanger
Last week on Twitter, someone I follow (and think is kind of hilarious) mentioned that her friend had a new book out, and maybe some of her followers might be interested. – This is not all that unusual, since I follow a lot of authors, and there’s always a lot of cross-promotion on any social media platform these days. I tend to click the link, move it to a new group amongst my Firefox’s 5000 open tabs, and add it to the TBR Mountain when […]
“He Texted?” Even the title sounds too high school for me
I received this book through NetGalley, some months ago, and have had a hard time reviewing it. I like to give all the books a fair shake, and I especially don’t like to write reviews were I didn’t like the book. But. I just didn’t like this book. Part of that is that the format – sample texts and responses from the ladies who wrote the book and a ‘panel’ of male text-perts who supposedly help them decipher the (apparently) unreadable text messages and offer […]