What? Prince Harry's royal tell-all Spare, a spiritual memoir? I admit that I did not initially pick it up as one. But as I read, it made me think about the role of royalty in regard to spirituality. For that alone, I decided to count it for my spiritual memoir challenge -- in the category … Continue reading Spiritual Memoir Review: Spare
I'm very pleased that I finished reading Krabat by Otfried Preußler this summer. Taking it slowly, one part per month, helped me get through and feel that I'd made a real step in German fluency. Here follows my summary of the third part in German and English, and some final thoughts in English. Nach Michals … Continue reading Krabat: The Third Year
Summer is over, and it's time to wrap up my 10 Books of Summer challenge. I packed my list with books I wanted to complete for various other challenges -- The #LoveHain readalong, #ReadingtheMeow in June, Read All Around the World, Spiritual Memoir Challenge, and StoryGraph Onboarding Challenge -- or that had been on my … Continue reading 10 Books of Summer / Summer in Other Languages Wrap-Up
The online magazine Motherwell, which describes itself as "telling all sides of the parenting story," has published an essay I wrote about reading to my son, titled "Why it's important to read aloud to our teenagers." Here's how it starts: “Mom, could you read to me?” Virus-ridden and miserable, my son was lying on the … Continue reading Over at Motherwell: Bringing back read-aloud time with a teenager
In August I sent the first issue of my new newsletter, which includes extra content for readers who'd like to go a bit beyond the blog. It includes news about my forthcoming book publication, as well as links, photos, poetry, and more. You can check out the first issue here, and if you'd like to … Continue reading Month in Review: August 2023
It's been an exciting month - we decided to move to a new apartment, so August is going to be very busy. I'm taking the month off from blogging, accordingly. I'll be back in September once I get settled. However, I do plan to start sending out a new monthly newsletter. My first issue will … Continue reading Month in Review: July 2023, and blog break
This year for my Summer in Other Languages self-challenge, I am reading the novel Krabat by Otfreid Preußler. As I did with my reading of Die Kleine Hexe two years ago, I’m posting a summary in German and English, plus some thoughts in English. I’ll focus at first on my impressions from reading the book … Continue reading Krabat: The Second Year
So far, my blog newsletter has been merely a summary of recent posts (which I just noticed has not been sending since December of 2022 -- I need to fix that this month!) I've decided to start something new and send out a newsletter that is not merely a repetition of blog content, but will … Continue reading Would you like to join the Enchanted Circle?
For my personal challenge to read books in other languages than English, I've been greatly helped by an online book discussion group hosted by Emma of Words and Peace, who this year also took up the hosting of beloved blog event Paris in July. For our summer read, we had already decided to take a … Continue reading Voyage au centre de la Terre – #ParisInJuly2023
Paris in July, now hosted by the lovely Emma of Words and Peace, is here again! And I have something to share, for I recently got to actually visit Paris for a weekend, together with my son. It was a bit nuts, but I couldn't resist taking the opportunity while my sister was visiting with … Continue reading A weekend in Paris! #parisinjuly2023
