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Teaser Tuesday: Fire by Kristin Cashore


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday: Fire by Kristin Cashore

Books · Family · Parenting

‘Kids hate reading’ and other stories.


If I had a pound for every time I heard someone say 'kids these days hate reading' or '****'s too young/old for books', I may not be a millionaire but I'd certainly have some extra pocket-money. They're wrong, obviously, but nothing I do or say seems to be able to convince them otherwise. Probably because… Continue reading ‘Kids hate reading’ and other stories.

Books

Judging a book by it’s cover…


Ah, the age old saying that we've all heard ten thousand times. Mostly, in my case, when they dumped a tedious looking, brown covered 'classic' in front of me at school and saw the look of boredom sweep across my face. Granted, they had a point in one case - I quite enjoyed Catcher In… Continue reading Judging a book by it’s cover…