Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

I have had success with Gratz’ books before although they do tend to drift towards being rather pedantic which this one fell unfortunately prey to. Not until the epilogues do all the perspective sfinally come together making it difficult to integrate the three perspectives. It also became exhausting because every time the character found a…

It ended up being much easier to finish this gym than I thought since the food poisoning I got towards the end of February knocked out the two events I had planned to attend that day. That being said, I did make it into a sort of 24 hour timer challenge since I had minimal…

In this fairly short middle grade novel, Behar tells small portions of the story of four young girls in a family across multiple generations. One travels out of Spain in the 1400s with her family after the Spanish monarchs expelled all Jews. The next, four hundred years later, has to leave Turkey (where many of…

In a month with three less days, I somehow read five more books? I don’t know what’s happening either.

I have 27 books on my official TBR for the month. Yes. That’s a lot. That’s also what happens when I keep adding goals to my plate, things that I really want to accomplish. Thankfully, I have a week and a day of Spring Break to help with the reading goals. We shall see if/when…

I got through quite a bit in this episode. These are the other two continuation stories to classic Disney movies that I checked out. I enjoyed both of these which manage to believably tell an after the end credits story. I also have to give props to the artist for the Ariel story because they…

Thanks to either a mild stomach bug or mild food poisoning, this will be a shorter entry than normal. I have full reviews written for two of the four books that I will discuss here. (The graphic novels will have their usual separate post.) I finished the third book, Immortal, Thursday evening and then hours…

As book banning has ramped up and terrible regulations slipped through a legal loophole in my state meaning that 11 books have been banned statewide in school libraries, I have become even more passionate about doing whatever I can to support wide access to literature for all my students and all SC students. After a…

The stacks of books languished and grew in my library as I transitioned from videos back to the blog and did not know how I would format an hual post as opposed to a video. I definitely won’t say that I have come anywhere close to figuring out a final format but I need to…

I had fun with this slightly absurdist fantasy. The main character wakes up after a magical accident apparently gone wrong, missing his eyebrows and also his memories. Although he finds his eyebrows quickly (set aside prior to the experiment) the memories do not return. This makes the situation a bit difficult when he realizes that…