May the Fourth be with you!
To All the Boys Read-Along Part 1
Rapid fire questions for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Aru Shah x 2
Little Lion writes a mini review of the first two Aru Shah books by Roshani Chokshi.
Quarantine Read-Along Time + First Pages: To All the Boys
“I like to save things. Not important things like whales or people or the environment. Silly things. Porcelain bells, the kind you get at souvenir ships. Cookie cutters you’ll never use, because who needs a cookie in the shape of a foot? Ribbons for my hair. Love letters. Of all the things I save, I guess you could say my love letters are my most prize possession.”
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Balancing Calm and Stress
How do you balance the calm with the anxiety? The need to know current news with the need not to bombard your kids with every detail of what’s going on?
Book Friends
My plan for escape? Books, of course.
3/18/20 Trisomy 18 Awareness Day
Do you know what trisomy 18 is?
I thought I did when I was a med student and resident. I thought I did until I found out that my daughter had trisomy 18.
The Beary Best Bear Picture Books
It’s BEAR DAY! Okay, not officially, but I’m calling today Bear Day in the Bookworm house.
Why?
Because today is my sister-in-law’s birthday and she LOVES bears.
Who I follow on Instagram
There are a lot of talks out there about who you should or shouldn’t follow on Instagram, especially if what you’re scrolling through doesn’t make you feel good about yourself.
International Women's Day
We’re going to see lots of posts today about some fabulous and inspiring women and girls.
Here are some of my own (writer) heroes.
My Best Friend + Giveaway
My Best Friend is a self-explanatory title so on first read, I readily accept this friendship between the girls. But <SPOILER ALERT>, it’s Fogliano’s ending that makes me fall in love with the book as a whole.
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings
I first spotted In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek around Valentine’s Day last year. I picked it up, assuming it was a book associated with the holiday. Instead, I found a picture book so full of heart and emotion that it was overflowing.
Pre-ordering Books
Do you pre-order books so you’ll have them on their release day?
World Read Aloud Day 2020
In honor of World Read Aloud Day, here are two of our all time favorite picture books to read out loud.
National Women Physicians Day 2020
I celebrate my mom every day by honoring her example.
For Macy
What are the things I carry? It’s an amalgam of treasured childhood moments, intimidating med school and residency moments, and an awful lot of both regrets and happiness that involve each of my kids, including, of course, my Macy though she passed away.
New Year, New Books
Every New Year’s Day, my Lola (grandma) would hold a raffle.
Holiday Family Traditions
When I was little, my mom would get a few new Hallmark ornaments every year. Our ornaments were handmade school projects and a mish-mash of gathered ornaments from years past, and I loved our tree very much.