Candy tastes good, right? Especially — at least to me — some sort of peanut butter, chocolate, perhaps caramel combination. It’s delicious, truly, but a diet consisting solely of candy wouldn’t be very satisfying in the long term. For me, variety is good — both food wise and in my literary pursuits. I love reading…
Category Archives: On Reading
On Reading: My Month of Middle Grade Fiction
It all started back before the holidays, when my mother-in-law asked for book recommendations for my children as she shopped. I began browsing Amazon for middle grade books for my eleven year old son, who is an avid reader and especially enjoys reading his favorite books again and again. When I saw the entire Percy…
On Reading: The Casa Del Mar, a Readers’ Hotel
Vacation (or “business” travel in this case**) is a big opportunity for me to get reading done. Quiet mornings in the hotel or afternoon breaks are a great time to cuddle up with a book. The Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica really blew me away. It was so warm and cozy. The furniture…
On Reading: New Job, New Reading Habits
Having been in several levels of employment during my eleven years of motherhood, from full-time employment outside of the home to a full-time stay-at-home status, I’ve had a lot of practice finding ways to fit in my own interests in different manners. Of course, the biggest leisure activity in my life is reading, and I…
On Reading: No More Number Goals
Last year, Dawn wrote an On Reading about the ups and downs of setting reading goals. I’ve always set goals to read a certain number of books in a year, and each year it’s gone up when I’ve blown away the goal. This year I set the lofty goal of 100 books. Last year I…
On Reading: My Own Personal Reading Challenge
Do you participate in reading challenges (If you’d like to share — link your challenge goals in the comment for as many challenges as you are participating in this year)? I love the community and the focus of reading challenges, but since so much of my reading is skewed by review reading (and I’m fine…
On Reading: Merry Christmas! What Books did you give or get?
Merry Christmas (and other Winter holiday happies) from the 5 Minutes for Books team! We are so happy to be able to do what we do here. We do it because we love books, and we like sharing that love with all of you other booklovers. Here are some of the books that we are…
On Reading: Books Make Great Gifts
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I thought that the readers over at 5 Minutes for Mom needed to be reminded that books make great gifts. I linked to a couple of our current giveaways, our gift ideas category, and of course our 5 Star Reads page. I’d love for you to…
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