Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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This week I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and it is one of my absolute favorite reads of the year. The storytelling is so understated and honest. I feel…
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
This week I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and it is one of my absolute favorite reads of the year. The storytelling is so understated and honest. I feel…
Drop Dead Handsome by Matthew Hubbard
This book was absolutely adorable! It follows the life of Parker, a high school student who is told that his college admission essay is too boring. He decides to enter…
Fireworks by Alice Lin
As a kpop fan who was brought into the fandom by my daughter, this book seemed like a really fun one for both of us to read. It’s a sweet…
Allergy-Friendly Food for Families
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC! I was really excited to check out Allergy-Friendly Foods for Families. I really love the way this cookbook is set up. The recipes…
Hart’s Landing – Melanie Harlow
Thanks to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for the ARC! I was instantly drawn into Hart’s Landing and couldn’t put it down! It opens with a scene where 4 young friends…
The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett I am not really sure what made me decide to select this book for my Book of the Month, but I am so glad…
Night shift essentials
I transitioned to working graveyard shift a few months ago. I had previously done overnight shift work as a doula, but that didn’t require me to flip my sleep cycle…
Small change: Using up what I have
This is hardly a revolutionary idea, but it really hit home for me over the past year. My ex moved out with hardly anything. He took his personal possessions, a…
WIP-a-Day, Day 6 – Piper’s Journey Shawl
Today’s WIP is a newer project. It’s a Piper’s Journey shawl that I’ve been using as parking lot knitting. My 13yo has a decent number of classes/lessons/rehearsals and some of…
WIP-a-Day, Day 5 – Parallelolamb
Today’s WIP is the Parallelolamb by Stephen West. This is another pattern that I assumed was pretty popular. I tagged it on Instagram and realized that is actually had very…
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