by Brandy Heineman | Oct 19, 2019 | Blog, Reading
Happy Sweetest Day! For today’s Bookish Memory, I thought I’d swing back to one of the first book signings I ever attended. Elizabeth Musser visited FoxTale Book Shoppe to promote her book The Sweetest Thing, and I was excited to attend. I had first...
by Brandy Heineman | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog, Reading
August 17 is Black Cat Appreciation Day! And I am writing this on August 26 because sometimes we can’t do everything the way we’d like to. But never mind—let me share with you a Bookish Memory of a cussing kitty. No cussin’! Penelope (or Nele,...
by Brandy Heineman | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Reading
School Days It’s that time of year again! In some places (like here), the kiddos have been back in the classroom long enough to get into the groove of a new school year. In others, they still have a little more time to work on their summer reading lists before...
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...
