by Brandy Heineman | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Happy belated birthday, Gramma I’d planned to post this for my grandmother’s birthday on July 16. However, I fell behind and didn’t get it done. It’s almost funny. Since she and Grampa had their anniversary on July 17, I often got the days...
by Brandy Heineman | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, Reading
“Can we keep her?” When Izzi came to live with us, she was a rail-thin scrap of a kitten our neighbors found living under their church. They brought her over. Mom agreed to let me keep and care for her . . . possibly because she thought the ugly little cat...
by Brandy Heineman | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Suspension of disbelief… what and why When I was in college, I considered myself an avid reader even though I probably only read something like 3-5 books for leisure per year at the time. Of course, those tended to be 800 page tomes, since, as previously...
by Brandy Heineman | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Good times with good friends and good books Today’s Bookish Memory is less about Wild Montana Skies, which I haven’t actually read yet, and more about book reviewer and friend Carrie Schmidt of ReadingIsMySuperPower.org! I first met Carrie through...
by Brandy Heineman | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Best. Assignment. Ever. My fifth grade teacher assigned our class to read The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright. This, to me, was like being offered dessert for breakfast. Um, yes please. It’s a suspenseful mystery, and you know how that goes. Once...
