It has been a super busy week in my world, so packed full of appointments and other non-fun, grown-up activities that seven whole days got away from me without getting much else done. The one highlight of this past week has been attending a baby shower for my […]
Mom came back home last Sunday afternoon, and it is wonderful to have her back home. The best part is that she got scared and is resting and elevating her legs. Mom may not to have gotten a traditional family seder, but yesterday I made chicken soup and […]
A Crown So Silver Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The second installment of Lyra Selene’s international bestselling series, A Crown So Silver, is set during a deadly trial on a mysterious snowy […]
Hi all and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday. The weather is officially nice outside, and people aren’t all bundled up. I especially like this time of year when fresh cut grass can be smelled through a window. Passover began on Saturday night, and since Mom has been […]
It just feels like there is so much going on in my life. The antibiotics for my mother weren’t working, so the hospital switched her to a more aggressive antibiotic. In the meantime, she hasn’t been here, and for the first time that I can ever recall, we […]
I don’t know how it is where you live, but in New York it feels like spring is almost here. We’ve been getting a lot of rain (April showers!) and the trees and bushes and flowers are all starting to show signs of life. I’m already in a […]
This past week had a lot of ups and downs, and the weekend has been gray and rainy, which always makes my joints hurt more. The high point of my night is going to be when I finish scheduling this post and get to put my heating pad […]
I finished February with 17 ARCs left to be read. For such a short month, February felt like it was about eleventy billion days long. March was probably one of my most stressful months in a long time, and I’ve dived back into reading and using it as […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “The Girls House of Juvenile Detention in the […]
This has been a rough week and an even rougher weekend, as I’m still trying to adjust to being unable to do anything close to what I was able to before. Over the weekend, my mother got sick, and has been feeling rotten. I have been trying my […]
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