Bubbly on Your Budget: Live Luxuriously with What You Have is a delightful book about how women of any age and circumstance can live fabulously even if they feel they have to economize in some way. Originally written in the 1930s … Continue reading
In her book Mean Moms Rule: Why Doing the Hard Stuff Now Creates Good Kids Later Denise Schipani writes about how parenting has changed between her mother’s generation and her own and how she attempts to do hard things as a parent … Continue reading
I’ve been putting countless hours into prepping our house for sale. If you’ve ever undertaken something of the sort, you know what I mean – you get used to living with your house a certain way, with the furniture in … Continue reading
A New Kind of Normal: Hope-Filled Choices When Life Turns Upside Down is the follow-up book to When I Lay My Isaac Down. In this volume, Carol Kent writes more about the shock of living with her son’s incarceration, and how … Continue reading
Although I don’t personally enjoy cooking as an art form (although I’m prone to complicated cookery – the more exotic the better) I do love food memoirs. I enjoy memoir in general for the insight it affords into other lives … Continue reading
As it turns out, I read and reviewed 29 books in the first quarter of 2012, which is more than my usual because I’ve worked less this quarter and because I read as a coping mechanism and have been grappling … Continue reading
If you’re like me, you may be a little skeptical about one more parenting book claiming the superiority of one nationality over another. But, if you’re like me, you will be pleasantly surprised by Pamela Druckerman’s book Bringing Up Bebe. … Continue reading
Although the book is set at Christmas, you won’t regret reading I Am Half-Sick of Shadows at other points in the year because the story is so fun. The book is the fourth in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, and … Continue reading
We like to have a few chapter books going for our read-aloud time so that we can read a little of this and a little of that rather than just having one book for a long stretch of time (although … Continue reading
In my post reviewing It’s a Big World, Little Pig I asked for suggestions about how to balance teaching your children to practice and work hard at a new task with allowing them to try new things. I find … Continue reading
Hi, I'm Catherine Gillespie and A Spirited Mind is where I post about reading, writing, and parenting and the lessons I'm learning as a result. Thanks for stopping by!
