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Category: book report

  • may book report.

    sheets are old from anthropologie Lots of books this month! Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight | this was interesting. It's a book about a girl who supposedly commits sucide but the mom doesn't really believe it and she pieces together the story of what happened through emails and texts from the few months before her…

  • tidying = life changing?

    The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo If you've been here awhile you may or may not know that I am ALL ABOUT THE TIDYING. Actually the more I think about it, the more you may not know that. So here's the deal…ready? I hate clutter. I mean, no one LOVES clutter.…

  • april book report (part 2).

    So I did a book report at the beginning of the month…but then I read five books. And I'm not sure what it was but this was a REALLY good reading month. I couldn't put these down. More than twice I skipped post Ellerie bedtime TV watching to just sit on the couch and read.…

  • april book report.

    I want to say there was one more book read in the last few weeks, but it can't have been great as it's slipped my mind… One Plus One by Jojo Moyes / I read this after Me Before You and it was cute but not quite as good. Still, an easy, sweet read with…

  • february book report

    Here we go!  I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson / I love going into books with no clue as to what I am going to get. This was one of those books. It's young adult (which I realize I read a lot of, but tends not to be my favorite) and a very…

  • january book report.

    I've got a good variety of books to share with you today AND, as a bonus, today's Elise Gets Crafty podcast episode features author Katherine Reay. We're chatting about her creative process for writing fiction. This is something I am so interested in because I love to read novels but I know writing one is…

  • december book report.

    It's been awhile since my last book report. Just three books in seven weeks. Not my best record and spoiler alert, this is not my best round-up. But here's what's been helping me fall asleep… Yes, Please by Amy Poehler / it's no secret I'm a big Amy fan. I was excited to get a…

  • creative books I always return to.

    We're getting there, you know? The giving season where you always "need" a good gift idea that's in the $20 range. Or you need a suggestion for someone who "needs" to get you a gift. (I use "need" liberally here, obviously.) But I'm a BIG FAN of giving (and receiving!) books – especially creative books…

  • november book report.

    Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell / another super quick, race-through-it read from Rainbow. I liked this but didn't love it. It might have been that I just read too many Rainbow books in quick succession (sometimes I think you need to take a break from an author to really appreciate them). I did enjoy the background…

  • october book report.

    What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty | I liked this one. Not too much to say other than that. It was another memory loss book (what's with the string of those for me?) but it had a bit more interesting characters and not quite as predictable of a story line. Fun read. The Big Tiny…