The year started off with a pretty high level of reading activity – taking vacation days for the first week of January gave me the opportunity to get my reading going at quite a pace! January 2007Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, Melanie RehakFrom the Amazon.com product page: From Publishers Weekly The intrepid Nancy Drew has given girls a sense of their own power since she was born, Athena-like, from the […]

I’m not sure how much I remember about some of these now, so the notes may not be too long. November 2006To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee (for Book Club)Summary from the Amazon.com page: Amazon.com Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual […]