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My Goodreads Review for The Red River Slayer by Katie Mettner (Plus a few more notes!)

The Red River Slayer is the third book in the Secure One series, but could be read alone (although if you do, I’d recommend going back to read the previous two.) I couldn’t put this installment of the series down! This book focuses on the relationship of Charlotte and Mack, and their personal backgrounds. However, there is much more as there are mysteries to solve and lives to save! Who is the…

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Another Four Years Passed

I have been busy with a variety of projects, but I have not discontinued my genealogy research by any means! I have gotten my DNA tested, and have found distant cousins all over the place. Most of my ancestral regions are of no surprise to me, although the 1% Irish was! Unfortunately, my dad died suddenly before I got his DNA tested. I miss his dearly. On my paternal side however, I have found…

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It is Disability Pride Month!

In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, while more amendments were passed in 2008. (I was actually unknowingly a part of this community much earlier than I realized due to allergies and asthma, and undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, part of the collection of Connective Tissue Disorders.) The first Disability Pride parades were held in 1990. I have seen posts encouraging people…

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An Article on Disability Representation in Children's Literature

The Current State of Disability Representation in Children’s Books

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100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons

I actually liked this book enough to read it all the way through, and I borrowed it from the library because it appeared on a list for teens that include various disabilities. I have been trying to read more depictions of disability in literature. In this book, Tessa is temporarily blind due to a special type of concussion, and it could take 100 days to resolve. The second main character is…

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Still Here!

I am still around. I haven’t updated, honestly, because shortly after my last post in 2017, I found out I was pregnant! Surprise! Truly surprised as we didn’t think it could happen for us anymore the ‘old-fashioned way.’I have read some good books lately such as: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Finding Balance by Kati Gardner. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling.…

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Life Keeps Going. . .

I started researching my genealogy 20 years ago! Where did the time go? At the time, I was working on my Master of Library and Information Sciences degree. I am looking for work. Anyone want to hire me? I am willing to do genealogy research, too. Meanwhile, after I am done KonMarie-ing my home, I plan to get back to genealogy. I have so much more I could add to this blog. . . even if blogs…

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My Baby's Book . . . but also the mystery of my grandpa's first visitors!

My Baby’s Book . . . but also the mystery of my grandpa’s first visitors!

In January 2017, my 94-year-old grandpa died. I inherited his head shape. My son inherited his head shape. After his death, I learned that he still had his baby book (“My Baby’s Book” as given by Dorothy Upfer) from the early 1920s in his possession. It is still in wonderful shape, and there is a photo of him at 4.5 months old. That’s why I can say for sure that the very specific head shape…

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World Pizza by Cece Meng

The book opens with a family having a picnic, and the mother sees a wishing star. She says, “I wish for world peace-ah, ah, ahchoo!” A sneeze is sparked by a nearby tree. Her children think she’s said “world pizza” and apparently the wishing star does, too. Peace is brought about, for at least a day, when people all over the world experience pizza dropping out of the sky. It is enough to…

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Big Girl by Kelsey Miller

This memoir is written by a young woman, a millenial born in the 1980s. Ms. Miller chronicles her relationship with food and the many diets she has tried over the years. She has been all different sizes over the years. . . her closet is full of clothes, most of which don’t fit in the opening of this book. She either exercises and diets like crazy, or has no urge to do anything and overeats. It…

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It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell

It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell (2015) – Memoir/Nonfiction The author is a food blogger (http://www.canyoustayfordinner.com) and though she is only 30 now, she has written this memoir. I have read several criticisms about this book including these: sometimes she doesn’t go in depth enough about her feelings because her mother will read them (I think this is true to a certain extent) and…

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Saving Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

Saving Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea (2015) – Middle Grade Fiction This is the third book in the Mr. Terupt series. As in the previous two, each chapter is told from the first person perspective of a different classmate. These students have been in the same class in school for the last two years, with Mr. Terupt, and this year, they are starting seventh grade. It is a major issue that they will no…

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The Look of Love by Sarah Jio

The Look of Love by Sarah Jio (2014) – Fiction Jane was born on Christmas and receives a gift she learns about on her 29th birthday, which explains her health issues over the years: she can see true love! Before her 30th birthday, she must identify several types of love otherwise face consequences (possibly no true love for herself, for instance.) I actually liked this book by Jio better than…

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#2015_Reads #Fiction #Summer_Reading_Online_2015

The Box and the Dragonfly (The Keepers #1) by Ted Sanders

The Box and the Dragonfly by Ted Sanders (2015) – Middle Grade Fantasy Horace is on this way home from school one day when he notices a strange billboard on a wall while riding the bus. He eventually gets off the bus, and finds a store that isn’t really a store – most people can’t see the entry. It turns out he is a Keeper, and he find an object in the storeroom that feels right to him. He…

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The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer

The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer (middle grade fiction, grief) Grace is 12. She’s a writer, but since her mother died (and Grace blames herself), she has been unable to write. She has only ever lived with her mother, moving around often, but now she goes to lived with the grandmother she has never met. She has always wanted a place she could really call home, but with the grief and…

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I Regret Nothing by Jen Lancaster

I Regret Nothing by Jen Lancaster (2015) I have read one of Ms. Lancaster’s earlier memoirs, in addition to a couple of her novels. I have been following her on Facebook as well. So I thought I would read this book. It starts off pretty nicely. I found her bucket list fairly interesting and the remainder of the book was about her journey tick things off of her list. One item on her bucket…

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Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin

Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin (2014) Franny Katzenback of Pittsburg lives not too far from Dr. Salk’s search for a polio vaccine. However, it is too late for her. She has gotten paralytic polio, and spends months in the hospital, including time in an iron lung. While she was in the iron lung, a nun comes to hospital regularly to read to her. She reads her a brand new book:…

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