The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced this morning. As always, I watched the announcement and took notes. I focused on books for teens as that was my specialty when I was in libraries. I will only list the winners for all but the three major awards (Printz, Caldecott, Newbery). I will list all ten … More The 2023 ALA Youth Media Awards Announced
I think unless my life schedule changes this will be a regular Saturday thing. It seems easier that way. Life I have dropped Monday from my volunteer schedule at the farm. I am now only there two days a week and I am not doing any facilities work. I hope that gets it back to … More Tater’s Week in Review 1/28/23
I’m still working out how and when I will do my week in review. Will it move to Saturday morning permanently? Will I write it Thursday afternoon and schedule it for Friday morning? Will it still just be what I watched and read or will I include other things? Time will tell. Until then, here … More Tater’s Week in Review 1/21/23
Never Read a Series Out of Order I went to the library recently and decided to pick up a book by Karin Slaughter. I had read one of her standalones and saw her Will Trent series was now a TV show so I wanted to read more. I picked up a book, read the description, … More Never Read a Series Out of Order and More of My Reading Habits
I still haven’t figured out the direction I want to go if I continue a weekly wrap-up post each week. I couldn’t even decide what to title this one. When I was thinking through names “My Week in Consumption” popped into my head. That sounds like I have an old-timey case of TB. Anyway, this … More This Weekly Wrap-Up is a Work in Progress 1/14/23
As I was contemplating if I had anything worth writing today, the Today Show did a segment with Jenna Bush Hager about how to keep your resolution to read more. Here are her tips and my thoughts on them. Always Keep a Book On You This is a rule I have generally followed most of … More Jenna Bush Hager’s Tips on How to Read More
It was a very down year for me in reading. I didn’t think I could do worse than I did in 2020, but here I am 4000 pages lower than the 2020 total I need to get back on track and read instead of vegging out in front of the TV. Ten Best Books I … More My Year in Reading 2022
I have read 6 books so far this month. It helps when you are home alone for a week. 1. The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham Grisham tells the story of the intertwining lives of the Malco and the Rudy families in Biloxi. Hugh Malco and Keith Rudy play little league baseball together and … More My December 2022 In Books(So Far)
Welcome to my last weekly recap until after the holidays. Maybe after the break, I will have an idea of how to revamp or I will decide I’m OK with it as is. Any suggestions are welcome. Movies We watched Vengeance this week. BJ Novak stars as a writer from New York who is looking … More My Week in Books, Movies, and TV 12/17/22
I think the only movies I watched this week were Hallmark Christmas movies, so I will skip the movie section this week and go straight to TV. TV We watched the finale of Amazing Race last night. It was fun that it ended in Nashville since we have been there and recognized the places they … More My Week in Books, Movies, and TV 12/9/22
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