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Reading Log: February-March 2023

8. A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Re-read, except sort of not. You see, Diane Duane rewrote the Young Wizards novels and this is the New Millenium edition, updated from the original book which was originally published in 2002. Diane Duane’s Young...

Reading Log: January-February 2023

I am slow, slow, slow in updating. It’s June already and I haven’t even logged my reading for the first three months of the year. Life is busy and other writing has taken precedence over updating here, alas. I started off the year with...

Windows in My Name is Asher Lev

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok was one of my favorite books of 2022 and I suspect it will be one of those books that I cherish and re-read many times in the future, the sort of book that speaks to the heart, that changes you. It’s the...

The Whirlwind

Clearly my dream of daily posting died pretty quickly. Defeated by Epiphany cooking and baking and present wrapping. I stayed up too late wrapping presents and I’m still catching up on the sleep deficit. It was a good weekend, though. The boys...

Now We Are Ten!

Lucia, my baby, is 10 today. I can hardly believe it. We are definitely in a different stage of family life now, with three teenagers and two pre-teens and no children with single-digit ages. Last night we went out for an anticipatory birthday...

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