'Reading' Category
Harriet’s Book Bus
Harriet is fortunate to have a library “book bus” (that might be “bookmobile” to you and me) service near her home in Norway. It will surprise no one here that she makes excellent use of it. In November, the local paper did a story on the Book Bus, featuring an interview with Harriet. I asked [...]
Barb’s Short Shelf Favorites for Christmas
The Short Shelf Book Services by Barb Weber Note from Jen: All links to Amazon on this page are my (not Barb’s) Affiliate links. If you click on one and then make any purchase, I, and subsequently Stitching for Literacy, will get a small commission used for needlework outreach. Your purchase price is not affected. [...]
Affiliate Link Reminder
Remember, if you’re buying gifts through Amazon this holiday season, and you access Amazon through a link here (or now on the Funk & Weber site, too), I and Stitching for Literacy receive a small commission. There will always be book links in the sidebar, and the image here is an affiliate link, too: You [...]
S4L Book Club
Yay! Yay! Yay! Thanks heaps for letting me twist your arms. I think maybe there’s more to this book than the title conveys. I recently listened to chapter three about the psychology of price. I find it fascinating and disturbing. I like to think I’m smart enough to not fall for the ubiquitous $whatever.99 ploy, [...]
A Bribe
Stitching for Literacy is all about . . . well, let’s face it: it’s about bribery. We bribe kids to read by giving them bookmarks, right? That works for me. Anything to get kids on the path to reading for fun. The hope, of course, is that they like it. That in the end, they [...]
S4L Book Club – Cheap
So who has read Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture? And who’s ready to discuss it? I am so glad to have read this again, and I hope someone else has read it, too, because I really want to discuss it. As the holiday season approaches, and as we’re bombarded with Black Friday, Small [...]
NaNoWriMo Update
Harriet, Ziggy, and I are participating in NaNoWriMo, writing 50,000 word novels in the thirty short days of November. Here’s the first progress report from Harriet: Harriet: Last year Jen told us in either the Bookmarks 101 Class or on the blog at S4L, I do not remember, that she was off to a writing [...]
S4L Book Club – Where is the Mango Princess?
ACK! I put it in the sidebar a while ago, but I never formally announced that we’re going to read Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture for November discussion. I know, I know, for those reading from small devices, you’re probably not seeing the sidebar announcement. So how about this: we’ll start the discussion [...]
Barb’s Short Shelf Favorites for Halloween
The Short Shelf Book Services by Barb Weber Note from Jen: All links to Amazon on this page are my (not Barb’s) Affiliate links. If you click on one and then make any purchase, I, and subsequently Stitching for Literacy, will get a small commission used for needlework outreach. Your purchase price is not affected. [...]
S4L Book Club – Where is the Mango Princess?
From Shelly: Cathy Crimmins, in Where is the Mango Princess, talks about her life being divided into Before (the accident causing her husband’s TBI) and After. I think many Americans today divide time into Before 9/11 and After 9/11. As a mom, I find that I frequently provide myself with a timeline by looking at [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
