Bear with me here as I use a long, silly story to start this post. I adored Freaks and Geeks as a teen, and one of my very favorite moments is in the last episode when the Deadheads notice Lindsay is carrying a copy of American Beauty around school. They’re super pumped for her to listen to it, and one of them says to her, “I wish I’d never heard it before, just so I could hear it again for the first time.” That line […]
More Books I’m Giving As Gifts (Reading On Their Own Edition)
Now, just because they can read on their own does not mean that you can’t read these books with them, just saying. Because that’s definitely the case with this first book: Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo – So the only problem with this book is that I only ordered one copy. And now I have about ten different girls I want to give a copy to. Because guys, it’s SO GOOD. There’s 100 different amazing women, with 100 […]
I have an unpopular opinion about this one
Um, so…I didn’t really like The Westing Game. Sorry. I know a lot of y’all LOVE it and it seems like on of those childhood books that everyone remembers fondly, but reading it for the first time as a 29-year-old, it was pretty…meh. Not great. Not awful, but still…. “Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” So if you’re not familiar with the plot, basically these sixteen residents of an apartment building […]
It really was quite a game.
Last week, we drove to New York and we listened to the CD of The Westing Game in the car. The Westing Game is about 16 people who are brought together because they are all mentioned as heirs in a very rich businessman’s (Samuel Westing) will. And they can only inherit his fortune of $200,000,000 if they can solve the mystery of his murder. The heirs are paired together and given a set of clues and $10,000 to help them solve the mystery. The clues […]