Elizabeth

Giveaway: Have Mother Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World

by Elizabeth April 22, 2013 59 comments

Elizabeth, staff reviewer at 5 Minutes for Books, shares her thoughts about Have Mother, Will Travel. She received a copy of the book from the publisher, but her opinions are her own: Mother-daughter duo Claire [...]

Sparkly Green Earrings {Review & Giveaway}

by Elizabeth February 17, 2013 41 comments

I can’t remember how I first stumbled across Melanie Shankle’s blog Big Mama, but I know it was years ago and I quickly became a fan of her down-home writing style. She blogs about everything [...]

Where the Light Falls {Book Review and Giveaway}

by Elizabeth February 10, 2013 62 comments

At the dawn of the Belle Epoque, an artist in Paris tells his students to “study where the light falls and where the shadows lie.” In many ways, Where the Light Falls does just that–looks [...]

The Death of Bees {Review & Giveaway}

by Elizabeth December 30, 2012 95 comments

Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved. The opening lines of The Death of Bees sent chills [...]

Parental Guidance Movie & Giveaway Pack

by Elizabeth December 15, 2012 158 comments

We’ve all been there. I grew up in a strict household as far as sugary snacks went. I begged, fruitlessly, for Cap’n Crunch and Corn Pops. I was allowed about 1/2 a slice of cake [...]

Walk With Me Book Review and Giveaway

by Elizabeth October 14, 2012 19 comments

Celeste and Peter are two people journeying to the King’s City when they decide to walk together as partners, promising to stay together no matter how difficult the path. However, they have no idea what [...]

Bilingual is Better; Review and Giveaway

by Elizabeth September 23, 2012 14 comments

Roxana Soto and Ana Flores don’t have to convince me that children gain untold advantages by being raised to speak more than one language–I am so convinced that “bilingual is better” that I raised my [...]

What You Wish For {Review and Giveaway}

by Elizabeth August 26, 2012 67 comments

Most girls growing up assume one day they’ll have a husband, kids, a house possibly with hardwood floors and an ocean view and maybe even twins. (Oh those details weren’t important to you?) It’s not [...]

Where We Belong {with Giveaway}

by Elizabeth July 23, 2012 50 comments

How do secrets, squirreled away and hidden from our nearest and dearest, affect our relationships? How do they change us, the people we become, as a result of the choice to deliberately hide things? Where [...]

How to Deal with Bullies {with Giveaway}

by Elizabeth July 8, 2012 42 comments

In 2003, my son Abel was in Grade 1 and we were living in France. The Iraq war had just started, and our 3 kids were the only Americans in their school. Overall this wasn’t [...]