Thank you very much Kathryn! I'm so grateful for your support of Be Where You Are and for sharing my writing with your readers. I'm also just excited to check out the writers & substacks here that are new to me. Thank you for your generosity!
Thank YOU for contributing to my newsletter with your awesome reading tips (and for sharing it here). I'm currently reading a book recommended to me by Emily Edlynn that I'm loving called "Margo's Got Money Troubles." Thinking of suggesting it for our next Relational Riffs book club, it's so good!
That Dog Man piece is great and I was just thinking about how I see a lot of disdain for those books but my kids love them and they did help them to read more.
Agreed with all of this—Dog Man was what got my son reading and he now reads all of us out of the water. I will forever be in the Dav Pilkey fan club for that!
Absolutely, Julie! And, the Wimpy Kid ones as well over here. I think that's what made him love the act of reading—getting lost in a book, and then once they're hooked, they're hooked. As a former high school English teacher, I know a lot of high school boys esp who confessed they hadn't read a full book since Dog Man. The trick is to keep them reading through those middle school years I think...
Sooo many good things to read, such little time 😩. You are truly a powerhouse of reading and writing, I need to up my game. Bookmarking all these links to come back to!
No game to be upped, there are all the things I don't do like clean my house or car (today my daughter found a hamburger bun in our backseat...so gross) so I can read and write. But I am happy to provide you with things when you do find a moment.
When I was in grad school, I had a training experience where I had a lot of downtime and I played Solitaire on a computer for long periods of time. So doing it with real cards felt special :)
There are so many fun programs at the library and I am not sure people know you just have to apply. It's a great thing for the library, the presenter, and the community. I had wanted to do a program for awhile and this seemed like a perfect match.
Such good links, and thank you, as always, for sharing and supporting Book Party! May we all find time to connect and read this season.
Cheers to connection and reading!
Thank you very much Kathryn! I'm so grateful for your support of Be Where You Are and for sharing my writing with your readers. I'm also just excited to check out the writers & substacks here that are new to me. Thank you for your generosity!
You're welcome Emily! So happy to have connected with you.
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Thank YOU for contributing to my newsletter with your awesome reading tips (and for sharing it here). I'm currently reading a book recommended to me by Emily Edlynn that I'm loving called "Margo's Got Money Troubles." Thinking of suggesting it for our next Relational Riffs book club, it's so good!
You're welcome! That would be a fun book club discussion!
Thank you dearest Kathryn for the recommendation! What a beautiful, caring place Substack is. May it never change!
You're welcome Elissa. I love this space, too!
That Dog Man piece is great and I was just thinking about how I see a lot of disdain for those books but my kids love them and they did help them to read more.
They have very much been gateway books for my older kids and although I don't personally enjoy the humor, I get why they do.
Yep, I don't love the humor, but many kids do.
Agreed with all of this—Dog Man was what got my son reading and he now reads all of us out of the water. I will forever be in the Dav Pilkey fan club for that!
Agreed! I think that his whole writer origin story also really spoke to my kids but those books (and the Wimpy Kid ones) really got them reading more.
Absolutely, Julie! And, the Wimpy Kid ones as well over here. I think that's what made him love the act of reading—getting lost in a book, and then once they're hooked, they're hooked. As a former high school English teacher, I know a lot of high school boys esp who confessed they hadn't read a full book since Dog Man. The trick is to keep them reading through those middle school years I think...
Yay to putting on a program at your library -- that's amazing, and of course I love the topic 😊
And thanks for the shoutout, as well! I appreciate your enthusiasm and support.
Thank you Sarah!
Sooo many good things to read, such little time 😩. You are truly a powerhouse of reading and writing, I need to up my game. Bookmarking all these links to come back to!
No game to be upped, there are all the things I don't do like clean my house or car (today my daughter found a hamburger bun in our backseat...so gross) so I can read and write. But I am happy to provide you with things when you do find a moment.
Solitaire with paper cards! What a fun idea. I’m eager to dive into Unfit Parent, too.
When I was in grad school, I had a training experience where I had a lot of downtime and I played Solitaire on a computer for long periods of time. So doing it with real cards felt special :)
I love that library program idea! So needed.
There are so many fun programs at the library and I am not sure people know you just have to apply. It's a great thing for the library, the presenter, and the community. I had wanted to do a program for awhile and this seemed like a perfect match.