Tweet I have exciting news to start your 2013 reading year. Great New Books, a books-focused site I was invited to help run in July 2012, has relaunched with a new site design and a new (and better) format. Our motto? Sharing our favorite books one week at a time. By the end of the year our…
Tweet Instead of calling my 2012 reading roundup a “best of” list or a “top 10″ I decided to focus on what this list REALLY is—the names of the books I frequently recommended whenever a friend texted: “I need a good book.” The books below are the ones I wanted to read instead of picking…
Tweet Today I’m sharing the literary highlight of the year for the Badzin household. Sam, Rebecca, and I met Jeff Kinney, author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series! Or as I like to call it, The Books that Got My Son to Read series. I was thrilled when I heard that my blogging…
Tweet Exactly 2.5 years ago I joined Twitter and found myself clicking links that led to interesting blogs. Reading blogs was a fun distraction, but I insisted that I would never, never, ever become a blogger. Nope, it wasn’t for me. I was going to write novels. Serious novels. Novels that would make you cry….
Tweet Am I imagining things, or does it seem like a lot of people complain about buying books? Even those who consider the act of reading and discussing books a cherished hobby seem resentful about actually paying for books. Let me tell you, sometimes I’m one of those people. There are periods, whole months, when…
Welcome! I am a freelance writer living in Minneapolis with my husband and four children. My essays on parenting, social media etiquette, improving my habits, Jewish life and more appear in the Huffington Post, Kveller.com, The Jewish Daily Forward and elsewhere. I'm glad you found your way here!
