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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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- dream-invader
- education
- end of year
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- Harry Potter
- health
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- house
- humor
- I made a thing.
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- KonMari
- Latin America
- LGBTQIA
- lists
- memorable
- Middle East
- mini-review
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- quarantine
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Tag Archives: quarantine
Quarantine Diaries – Week 77
Honestly, I don’t have the bandwidth for all the crap this week. So let me just start with the numbers, and then bullet-point my way through the mess this week. Screw trying to condense and make this more readable. Whatever. … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Week 76
It’s been a really, really tough week. On Monday, I picked Laurence up after school and he immediately said, “Ugh, I feel like sh!t.” A shudder of “oh no” went through me. The kid wore his mask the entire first … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Week 75
All right. Let’s start right in with lawsuit hopscotch here. Get your popcorn. When I left y’all at the end of week 74, SA had sued the state, gotten a temporary restraining order, and put in a mask mandate in … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 73 and 74
So. San Antonio is under heavy covid assault, a surge that is still toward its beginning and has already surpassed last July, and is likely only a week or two off from topping the January surge. Literally five weeks ago, … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – July 2021
So San Antonio just finished its 72nd week of the pandemic on Thursday, and the weeks since I last wrote (week 67) have been a doozy. To be honest, I would have liked to be able to keep this as … Continue reading
June 2021 in Review
June began in a blaze of glory. Finally out of May and the PTSD time of the year, I felt alive and awake for the first time in what felt like forever. I’m really glad I had that feeling, too, … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 64-67
Not gonna lie – there’s not much going on in terms of quarantine any longer. Vaccinations are keeping things relatively under control. Which is awesome. Numbers Early in the month, we crossed the 50% line of fully vaccinated residents in … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 61-63
Not much has changed. We keep marching on, trying to survive under a government that is trying to kill us. Numbers Things are holding steady here. We reached a couple major milestones in number over the last few weeks. First, … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Hospitality
The day before Mother’s Day, I hit a personal breaking point. I’m a stay at home mom. My job is 24/7. There are no breaks from it. In the past, I have coped with this by a precarious balancing act. … Continue reading
Quarantine Diaries – Weeks 59 and 60
So much of life right now feels tentatively safe at the moment. It feels like for the last 13-14 months, I’ve been living in an underground shelter, hunkering down and waiting until things are safe again, and now we’re peeking … Continue reading