Keeping up with my reading last month was a bit of a challenge. The first two weeks of the month were devoted to Frozen, Jr. and then recovering from Frozen, Jr. I was so tired, I swear I went to work, came home, went to bed and then repeated it all the next day! Thankfully, our two weeks of show insanity was followed by a week off, which gave me the opportunity to catch up on my life a bit. […]

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I promised to be back with a post today, and here I am! Moving forward with the blog, I am still planning to do posts on Tuesdays and Fridays. However, I am going to be a little more forgiving when I don’t get a chance to do it. This blog is not my main job (or really a job at all), and I often have a lot going on. I don’t need to add more stress in other places that […]

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I’m back dating this post to Friday, January 10, but truth be told I completely forgot to write it. This is crunch time as far as working on the musical goes (we’re three and a half weeks away!), and my brain is not at full functioning capacity at the moment (unless you need me to identify whose shirt is who from a pile of exactly matching shirts). December was the month of Lisa Jewell. I read not one, but FOUR […]

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Despite having a very busy month, I managed to squeeze in a number of books thanks to a sick day and Thanksgiving break. Let’s get right into it shall we? The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell was SO GOOD. I’ve read a few of Jewells books before and liked them, but none so much as this one. It was a creepy psychological thriller with three narrators who alternated chapters. They are connected to each other, that much is obvious going […]

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My goal when October started was to read five books. When the month began, I had fifteen left to reach my goal for the year. I knew going in that this would be a tough goal to meet, and I was right. I managed to get through three of the five, and about halfway through a fourth (but that one doesn’t count since I haven’t finished it yet!). The first book I read was The Fountains of Silence, by Ruth […]

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I knew going into September that it wasn’t going to be a big reading month. There’s so much going on in my life at the moment that I was honestly surprised that I managed to eke out two books in the end! First up was The Paris Seamstress, by Natasha Lester. I bought this book back in mid-summer and somehow managed to leave it in the trunk of my car for about five weeks before actually reading it. I initially […]

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August was not quite as productive as July as far as reading goes (however, I surprised myself with sewing, as you’ll see in Friday’s post!). I managed to add three more books to my reads of the year, bringing the total to thirty-three books. My goal is fifty… but with Frozen costuming starting this month, I don’t know if I’ll make it there. We shall see. First up, we had The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. I was […]

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I love summer vacation for three main reasons: 1.) lots of time to visit my niece and nephew, 2.) sewing, and 3.) reading. And read I did this July, making up for the months with only two books this year. Hey, I pledged to read 50 before the year is up. Given what I did this month, I may just get there! Though I read a number of books, I’m going to count six of them in one group as […]

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School’s out! June was a doozy of month to get there though and as a result I read only two books. I definitely chose sewing over books at the end of the month once summer vacation started – it feels so good to sew for myself again! (But we’ll get to that in Friday’s June Makes post…) Both of the books I read were recent Book of the Month Club selections. I’m very behind on those, but that doesn’t stop […]

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