Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

Most people would probably not jive with this book since it leans more towards the academic side. As an amateur historian and social studies educator, a book like this falls right into my wheelhouse. The author did an excellent job handling this significant event from a comprehensive angle while maintaining a chronological structure to the…

This month I had *only* 3 DNFs. Like last month, all of them came from book boxes. I will definitely analyze that more in my future book box subscription audit. For now, I will simply talk about them briefly since after stopping my read of them, I put them out of my mind. I got…

This episode will end up being a bit shorter than all the previous episodes for a couple reasons. One, I need to write the reviews a lot closer to when I read the books. Two, I have less to review due to a few weekdays without independent reading time in my classroom – aka a…

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…