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What’s in your summer reading pile?

One of my favorite summer activities as a teenager was spending long, lazy afternoons lying on a lawn chair in our backyard under the shade of our eucalyptus tree, reading Georgette Heyer novels, while boats droned along the river near our house and cicadas chirped in the bush. All through my teenage years, and well [...]

Tentatively Untitled. Because you’ll see why.

Here’s what we need to just get out of the way: My writing is crap. Also, if another child gets out of bed to tell me something “important,” I may actually start crying. REAL tears. It’s not that I don’t want to listen to them tell me their importants, but I don’t really want to [...]

A Good Book for Christmas

One of my favorite gifts to give (and get) at Christmastime is a good book. Although I realize that the more organized among us have already finished their Christmas shopping, I’m guessing some of you are like me and still have some holiday scrambling to do. I’m hoping that I can share some of my [...]

Discovering Jane

Today’s guest post comes from Charise Hansen. Chariese has been trying to adjust for the past four years to the arctic climate in Minnesota, and is still failing miserably.  She is also the mother to 5 children, the latest of which came from China; he is quickly becoming the world’s most spoiled little boy with [...]

Confessions of a Compulsive Reader

Today’s guest post comes from Lindsay Denton, who lives in San Antonio, TX where she works full-time as a speech-language pathologist.  Her husband, Jay, graduates from dental school this summer.  When she’s not working or holed up somewhere with a book, you can find her snapping photos, doing something musical, trying (and failing) to organize [...]

the books of summer

My older boys set the rule: if you want to see a Harry Potter movie, you must read the book. It’s a simple way to monitor age-appropriateness and for me, at least, to justify a PG13 movie for a 9 year old boy. Motivated by the final movie premiering July 15th, my Gabriel is knee [...]

Leaving an impression

I am so impressionable, if you touched me I would probably retain your fingerprint on my skin. I’m kidding, but barely. What I read, watch, listen to, & see really colors how I see the world. (This is probably true of everyone but I might have it to such a degree that the Victorians would [...]

Running the Numbers

And the evening and the morning were the first day. I ran 200 fewer miles in 2010 than in 2009.  I read 25 fewer books.  I spent a lot of time doing things I don’t enjoy like moving, volunteering in classrooms, baking (mostly) unsuccessful allergen-free breads and goodies, hosting parties and play-dates, and cleaning.  I [...]

“I Just Don’t Have Time for That”

A caveat: I realize this post is a little grumpy. I’d rather write a Segullah post that’s intelligent, or enlightened, or at least pithy. (Ha! What am I thinking? I’m never pithy.) But no. It seems that today, I must whine. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Now, onward! *** There are certain phrases I [...]

Segullah Book Club: Mockingjay Discussion

Today is the day! Our inaugural Segullah Book Club Discussion. We’ll be discussing four books a year here on the blog, and we’re kicking things off with a novel that’s had readers buzzing since its release in August: Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay. Mockingjay is the final book in the Hunger Games series, a trilogy of novels [...]

Book Club Reminder: Mockingjay Next Thursday

A quick reminder to those interested in participating in our first ever book club discussion: we’ll be discussing Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins here on the blog next Thursday, Nov. 18th. You have less than a week to finish reading it, but there’s still time. Anyone who’s read the book is welcome to participate in the [...]

Segullah’s New Book Club. Yes, It’s About Time!

Ever since I joined Segullah three years ago (three whole years? seriously?) I’ve been wanting to form a book club with the articulate, intelligent, book-loving women who frequent this blog. Myself, I’m a book club person. Especially when my kids were small, I looked forward to my monthly book club outing with a little thrill [...]

Are a bunch of morons raising our kids?

Conversations at our dinner table have been robust this week over two articles: first, How to Raise Boys That Read from the Wall Street Journal and next, Are we raising a bunch of idiots? from Associated Press (printed in the Deseret News). A few excerpts: WSJ– So why won’t boys read? The AP story drops [...]

What happens when my ADD of housecleaning spreads to writing

What you almost got from me today: How we come to terms with our own not-enoughness. What it feels like to be a Republican deep in the heart of Utah County fearlessly campaigning for a Democrat in the upcoming election. Funny things I observe or overhear while serving in my new calling in the Primary. [...]

With a Lot of Lying Down Comes This

First it was Elizabeth Strout. A thorough reading and rereading of Olive Kitteridge wasn’t enough and I delved back into her other novels with abandon: jealous and thirsty. Then it was an inordinate amount of chick lit, the best of which (probably Jennifer Weiner?) I’m even almost too embarrassed to admit. Right now it is [...]

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