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Melanie Bettinelli

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...

You Shall Plant Bulbs: Thoughts on Beauty and Healing

I woke up this morning with a phrase from my dream burning in my mind and needing to be written down: You shall plant bulbs. And suddenly, like an explosion, a whole bunch of things I’ve been pondering for a while have come together at once...

My Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Read in 2022

At long last, I’m getting around to sharing my thoughts about the rest of my favorite books from last year. These thoughts still feel kind of rough, but I want to get this off my plate and move on to talking about this year’s books. 1...

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...

This is the chapter in which not much happens

Today was another busy full day. Everything was compressed because I had to take Bella to the dentist at 4pm to get a cavity filled. Poor thing, it was a big cavity and she was kind of traumatized. Then we had to have an early dinner because Bella...

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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