by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2018 | Books You Might Like
The last couple years have been … eventful. Eventful, adjective: 1) full of or rich in events; 2) momentous. He led a short but eventful life. It was an extremely eventful period in American history. I didn’t make that last example up, y’all; Merriam-Webster said a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 29, 2018 | Books You Might Like
My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns … Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF Ta-Nehisi Coates / We...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 23, 2017 | Books You Might Like
Food A natural diet would require hunting for several hours a day and the consumption of as many as a dozen small rodents. How many cats living naturally eat twice a day from a predictable source? Cats spend up to six hours a day hunting, foraging, stalking, catching...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 13, 2017 | Books You Might Like
Some years my favorite book is never in question. Some years there are so many I truly enjoyed that I have to make a list to narrow it down: Geraldine Brooks / March / LF Louise Erdrich / LaRose / LF Alison Hodgson / The Pug List / MEM Hope Jahren / Lab Girl / MEM...
by Jamie Chavez | Feb 10, 2017 | Books You Might Like
There is no greater divide in life than the one between kids for whom the experience of learning to read is a painful or tedious one, whose rewards are remote if real, and those for whom the experiences of reading and writing are addictive, entrancing, overwhelming,...