These titles are just the tip of the iceberg known as my reading pile.
Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus, a 2016 Caudill nominee, is a story about a boy named Espen who joins the Norwegian resistance during WWII. I love WWII fiction and Shadow on the Mountain is a solid addition to that genre. The character of Espen is based on actual events in the life Erling Storrusten, who was a teengae spy in Lillehammer during the Nazi Occupation.
Shadow on the Mountain is appropriate for any reader who can handle blood, shootings, beatings, and all the things that come with a Nazi story. Edmund can't wait to read it.
I was seriously scared at the beginning of Hidden by Helen Frost. An eight year old girl, Wren, waits in the car while her mother runs into a gas station. Gun shots. Someone gets in the car and drives away, not knowing about the child in the back seat. Wren hides in the car and then in a boat in the garage for days before *SPOILER* she escapes and is rescued.
During her days of hiding, readers overhear conversations the driver of the car has with his wife and daughter,Darra, as well as hearing some domestic violence too. Darra leaves food and water out for Wren, while her parents think she must have gotten out of the car after the shooting.
Fast forward several years, Darra and Wren end up at the same summer camp. Wren has a happy family life, security, wealth. Darra's dad went to prison, her parents divorced, and she blames Wren for her woes.
Written in the girls' voices, the style of poetic verse changes back and forth. I didn't realize until I read the Author's Note at the end that the last words of Darra's longer lines tell another version of the story. Incredibly cool! I love secrets like that!
Hidden is also a Caudill nominee, and though frightening at first, I think it would be okay for ages 10 and up.
Need picture book recommendations? Search the #housewifespicepicturebook hashtag on Instagram for everything we've enjoyed lately.
I'll be posting again next Wednesday. I have some new stuff from Pauline Press and Ignatius/Magnificat Kids to share with you. Susan and Lucy each have a review to share as well!
It hits just below the knee which is my sweet spot.
It's all cotton and it comes in cute colors.
It's $59.99.
Wha?
So I made one my ownself for under $10 and I'm here today to tell you how you can do this too.
1. Assemble your ingredients.
Go to Wal Mart (or Hobby Lobby or Joann's etc.) and get 2 yards of cotton fabric in the color of your choosing. I chose Prussian Blue. The fabric was $5.97 for 2 yards pre-tax.
Grab a pack of 1 inch wide no-roll elastic for the waist ($1.77) and a spool of coordinating thread if you don't already have some.
Wash, dry, and press your fabric. With an iron, Sara. With an iron.
2. Cut your fabric.
Fold the fabric in half and cut two rectangles. My rectangles were 28 inches wide and at least 30 inches long. That gave me plenty of length to make the waist band and figure out a cute wide hem.
Those measurements are good for a GAP small. If you want to make a custom size, take your hip measurement and add 16 inches or more if you want a fuller skirt. If you're tall, cut longer rectangles. Two yards should be enough for everybody. Divide by 2 because one rectangle is the front and one is the back. But you knew that.
3. Sides.
I did my own version of a French seam on the sides. That's a fancy term for saying I sewed the rectangles together up the sides with a scant quarter inch seam allowance. (Apparently I was supposed to trim the seams to 1/8". Oops.)
Then I turned the giant tube inside out and ironed the seams.
Next, I sewed the sides again with a slightly more generous half inch seam allowance. This way, the side seams will never fray, and look super neat and tidy.
It helps that my fabric looks the same front and back.
4. The waistband.
Choose the top edge. Iron a half inch fold all the way around.
Next, fold over that edge and iron a generous inch and a quarter all the way around. We are making a tunnel for the elastic to go through.
Sew this edge down but leave a couple of inches open to fit the elastic in like so.
Use the biggest safety pin you can find, pin it through one end of the elastic and feed the elastic through the tunnel.
When you've worked it all the way through, try on the skirt and adjust the gathers to your liking.
Stitch the ends of the elastic together and clip off the excess.
Stitch down the rest of the seam to conceal the rest of the elastic.
I did sew through the whole waist band at the side seams for a vertical inch or so, just to keep the gathers even.
5. The hem.
This may or may not be the same picture from up above.
Decide what length you want. Get a second opinion. Lucy helped me settle on 23 inches. I cut the whole skirt length to 25 inches, and repeated the tunnel steps I used on the waistband. Half inch, then inch and a half hem. Ran it through the sewing machine one more time and done!
6. Commence awkward backyard photo shoot.
7. Caveats.
The Gap skirt has pockets. Carry a purse or wear a fanny pack or pay $60 for pockets.
The thin cotton fabric needs a slip. On it, Mom. FYI, the Gap skirt needs a slip too.
My apologies for the photo quality of this post, or lack thereof. I can only master one piece of machinery at a time. This time I beat the sewing machine into submission but let the camera be the boss. No time for photo editing or this post would never see the light of day like many I have in my drafts folder.
Susan and Lucy have fabric ready and waiting to be transformed. Lucy's is red, and Susan's is seersucker. Way to choose the wrench, Susan.
Linking up with This Ain't the Lyceum for Friday Quick Takes and you know I'll be back on Wednesday. I never miss the first Wednesday of the month because WHAT WE'RE READING WEDNESDAY!
On Wednesday, Lucy made her first appearance of the day at nearly 11 o'clock am and informed me that she was leaving for a party at 5. I very matter-of-factly stated that she was making dinner.
She put chili in the slow cooker and baked corn bread from scratch. Boom.
2. Rather than wrap up the St. Jude's school year in some formal way, it just faded out. Still fading. Fading out. Fading out. Just fading out....
We are still watching documentaries and educational programs on Netflix all the time. Can't quit the 'flix.
Some of our favorites include
Ted Talks.
Leap Frog. Math or phonics, it doesn't matter. Jill loves the opposites, the rhyming, the counting, all the things. I only wish there were more Leap Frog shows streaming and Jill wishes there were more Netflix Leap Frog shows with the cute dogs aka Scout and Friends.
Patrick was a little hot about some of the more obvious propaganda points. For example, the movie makes a point of saying that life and health insurance companies invest in Big Food companies. Patrick says that all large companies with 501k programs invest in portfolios and those portfolios will include Big Food, but not because of some nefarious partnership.
On the whole, Fed Up packaged the Sugar Is Bad For Us message along with lots of other new messages about science and diet and exercise, which is great because I was calling this "science class."
For example, exercise is NOT going to help Americans if they consume soda and processed foods. There aren't enough hours in a day to work off those calories. The Calories In, Calories Out message is ripped to shreds.
There are many sad statistics about the health and future of American children.
I had no idea how difficult it is for children to make healthy food choices in a public school setting. Jamie Oliver taught us how public school kitchens do not have cooking equipment. They only have "heating-up-processed-food-equipment."
The partnerships between fast food companies and soda companies and public schools was news to me. Horrifying news. I'm bothered that my daughter's private high school has a soda machine, but public school kids are being given junk food for free?!?
Jamie Oliver is spot on when he says that the problem is education. He wants to educate people on how to cook in their homes. He says every child should graduate "knowing how to make ten dishes that will save their lives."
5.
Edmund cooks every day. Every single day, he starts off by making a wholesome breakfast from scratch. No cereal here, unless there is some sort of early morning crisis, like we are out of eggs.
6.
Jamie Oliver. Edmund. Both dyslexics who love to cook. I'm working out a brainstorm here. Edmund. Cooking show. YouTube. Teaching kids how to cook dishes that will save their lives.
And I can call it Science!
7. If you were 12 years old and going to make a vlog or series of YouTube videos, what kind of equipment would you need? What kind of program would you use? Asking for a friend.
1. Birthday Trifecta Week is over. Three birthdays, three parades, three cakes, three birthday dinners.
My feast was the best. Patrick grilled salmon (and Italian sausages because he has that thing about fish) AND he grilled avocados for this Grilled Avocado and Tomato Salad recipe from John Besh. Grilled avocado is a brand new wonderful thing that we are going to eat a lot of this summer.
2.
Edmund won't finish a book because he "doesn't like it." I told him I finish every book I start. His response, "You're a geek." I said to give it to page 100, then decide.
Patrick said, "You're right." I said, "I know. You can't tell until page 100 if it's worth it or not."
Patrick said, "No, he's right. You are a geek."
I get no respect.
3. Jill adores Polly. Worships her. And speaks to her in this weirdly deep voice, "Heh behbeh."
Heh Heh beh beh. Heh Chubs.
Speaking of Polly, she walks. She only takes steps if no one is looking or paying attention to her. She's a baby ninja.
4. Things are gorgeous here.
Breathtaking.
Pulchritudinous.
5.
Last weekend, Lucy changed up our exterior home decor with a spot of paint. Don't you love it? I sure do.
6.
Check out our entry way now! Look at all of those hooks just waiting to be overloaded with jackets and bags.
7. Today is Prom!!!
Today is also the four hour European history test from noon to four so send up a prayer that we can get her hairs done by 11:30am. I fired up my hot rollers for a test drive last night and she's been scouring Pinterest.
Unfortunately, my Irish-dance-wig-putting-on skills are not helping me at all.
I'll be discussing important things like the uncanny similarity between Lucius Malfoy and Thranduil the Elven King,
and whether or not my husband can pull off the blonde wig look again this Halloween
and where we can find him a giant moose to ride.
But seriously, I'm going to chat books and other things with Allison Gingras on A Seeking Heart on May 4th. Be sure to download the Real Life Radio App to your Android or Apple device so you can hear our folksy chat.
I imagine it's going to be like SNL Coffee Talk or the SNL NPR bits.
Or more likely she will be all suave and sophisticated and I will be like this:
2. Ever tried to comment on this blog and it didn't work out? Please try again today. I'm trying something new. I really really want to hear from you.
Mom, please give it another shot. :) Or just call me.
Don't know what Gallipoli is or how to pronounce it? Neither did I, but my high school freshman, Lucy, filled me in.
I'm not that savvy with my history dates. I just happen to follow @kensingtonroyal on Instagram and they are gearing up for a big memorial. Mostly I just follow because I like to see Princess Kate's clothing choices.
Looking for a good movie about the invasion at Gallipoli? So am I. The Mel Gibson one on Amazon Instant Video is not it unfortunately. The beginning is slow but okay, the end is tragic but okay. The middle has porn and prostitutes. Not okay.
Perhaps Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner, in theaters this weekend, will prove better.
True confession. Aside from the asassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, everything I know about WWI, I learned from Rilla of Ingleside, War Horse, and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (and Gallipoli the movie and the boardgame Stratego).
It ain't much.
Hit me with all of your good First World War aka The Great War literature recommendations by loading up my brand new open to all readers combox. Danke!
4. Movie Rec
We all greatly enjoyed The Conspirator available on Amazon Prime or on Netflix.
It's all about the trial of Mary Surrat who was allegedly one of John Wilkes Booth's conspirators in the Lincoln assassination, and who also happened to be Catholic. (Lots of esses in the word "assassination.")
Several famous actors star in The Conspirator, including Rory Gilmore, Kevin Kline, Princess Buttercup, and Mr. Tumnus.
This movie is fine for the whole family as long as the whole family is fine with watching Lincoln and Booth get shot in the head(s?) and footage of the other murder attempts.
5. Book Rec
The Conspirator pairs well with the audio book we are still listening too. Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson. (Yes, I know I mentioned this book here, but I hadn't actually listened to it yet.) The author draws upon every detail in the attempt on Secretary of State Seward's life and the plot to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson.
Did you know that Booth and his cohorts planned to murder three of the top political leaders of the nation in one night? Not just Lincoln? Well, I sure didn't.
6. Girl Talk
Susan is gearing up for her "season." Prom is coming up and her graduation gala is later in May. No caps and gowns at her all girls' academy. Graduates wear long white dresses with elbow length white gloves.
Her gala dress is actually a wedding dress from ModCloth. I bought it last summer, but they still have a few one in stock. I absolutely love it. I wish you could see the back because BUTTONS!
We got her prom dress from an online shop called Promgirl of all places. We rejected other prom dress websites because of poor return policies. Promgirl has a great return policy and an enormous selection.
Too bad her #promposal isn't up on YouTube. Several senior boys (from the brother school) made an adorable and hilarious music video to Uptown Funk to invite their dates.
Remember that scene in the Sound of Music where the family is at the music concert singing So Long, Farewell and they do this?
They did that. Too cute.
7. Bizniz
May 6th is the May WWRW Link Up date, but I keep the party doors open all month. Have a book review post from April? It's not too late to join the April WWRW party!
These titles are just the tip of the iceberg known as my reading pile.
Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus, a 2016 Caudill nominee, is a story about a boy named Espen who joins the Norwegian resistance during WWII. I love WWII fiction and Shadow on the Mountain is a solid addition to that genre. The character of Espen is based on actual events in the life Erling Storrusten, who was a teengae spy in Lillehammer during the Nazi Occupation.
Shadow on the Mountain is appropriate for any reader who can handle blood, shootings, beatings, and all the things that come with a Nazi story. Edmund can't wait to read it.
I was seriously scared at the beginning of Hidden by Helen Frost. An eight year old girl, Wren, waits in the car while her mother runs into a gas station. Gun shots. Someone gets in the car and drives away, not knowing about the child in the back seat. Wren hides in the car and then in a boat in the garage for days before *SPOILER* she escapes and is rescued.
During her days of hiding, readers overhear conversations the driver of the car has with his wife and daughter,Darra, as well as hearing some domestic violence too. Darra leaves food and water out for Wren, while her parents think she must have gotten out of the car after the shooting.
Fast forward several years, Darra and Wren end up at the same summer camp. Wren has a happy family life, security, wealth. Darra's dad went to prison, her parents divorced, and she blames Wren for her woes.
Written in the girls' voices, the style of poetic verse changes back and forth. I didn't realize until I read the Author's Note at the end that the last words of Darra's longer lines tell another version of the story. Incredibly cool! I love secrets like that!
Hidden is also a Caudill nominee, and though frightening at first, I think it would be okay for ages 10 and up.
Need picture book recommendations? Search the #housewifespicepicturebook hashtag on Instagram for everything we've enjoyed lately.
I'll be posting again next Wednesday. I have some new stuff from Pauline Press and Ignatius/Magnificat Kids to share with you. Susan and Lucy each have a review to share as well!
It hits just below the knee which is my sweet spot.
It's all cotton and it comes in cute colors.
It's $59.99.
Wha?
So I made one my ownself for under $10 and I'm here today to tell you how you can do this too.
1. Assemble your ingredients.
Go to Wal Mart (or Hobby Lobby or Joann's etc.) and get 2 yards of cotton fabric in the color of your choosing. I chose Prussian Blue. The fabric was $5.97 for 2 yards pre-tax.
Grab a pack of 1 inch wide no-roll elastic for the waist ($1.77) and a spool of coordinating thread if you don't already have some.
Wash, dry, and press your fabric. With an iron, Sara. With an iron.
2. Cut your fabric.
Fold the fabric in half and cut two rectangles. My rectangles were 28 inches wide and at least 30 inches long. That gave me plenty of length to make the waist band and figure out a cute wide hem.
Those measurements are good for a GAP small. If you want to make a custom size, take your hip measurement and add 16 inches or more if you want a fuller skirt. If you're tall, cut longer rectangles. Two yards should be enough for everybody. Divide by 2 because one rectangle is the front and one is the back. But you knew that.
3. Sides.
I did my own version of a French seam on the sides. That's a fancy term for saying I sewed the rectangles together up the sides with a scant quarter inch seam allowance. (Apparently I was supposed to trim the seams to 1/8". Oops.)
Then I turned the giant tube inside out and ironed the seams.
Next, I sewed the sides again with a slightly more generous half inch seam allowance. This way, the side seams will never fray, and look super neat and tidy.
It helps that my fabric looks the same front and back.
4. The waistband.
Choose the top edge. Iron a half inch fold all the way around.
Next, fold over that edge and iron a generous inch and a quarter all the way around. We are making a tunnel for the elastic to go through.
Sew this edge down but leave a couple of inches open to fit the elastic in like so.
Use the biggest safety pin you can find, pin it through one end of the elastic and feed the elastic through the tunnel.
When you've worked it all the way through, try on the skirt and adjust the gathers to your liking.
Stitch the ends of the elastic together and clip off the excess.
Stitch down the rest of the seam to conceal the rest of the elastic.
I did sew through the whole waist band at the side seams for a vertical inch or so, just to keep the gathers even.
5. The hem.
This may or may not be the same picture from up above.
Decide what length you want. Get a second opinion. Lucy helped me settle on 23 inches. I cut the whole skirt length to 25 inches, and repeated the tunnel steps I used on the waistband. Half inch, then inch and a half hem. Ran it through the sewing machine one more time and done!
6. Commence awkward backyard photo shoot.
7. Caveats.
The Gap skirt has pockets. Carry a purse or wear a fanny pack or pay $60 for pockets.
The thin cotton fabric needs a slip. On it, Mom. FYI, the Gap skirt needs a slip too.
My apologies for the photo quality of this post, or lack thereof. I can only master one piece of machinery at a time. This time I beat the sewing machine into submission but let the camera be the boss. No time for photo editing or this post would never see the light of day like many I have in my drafts folder.
Susan and Lucy have fabric ready and waiting to be transformed. Lucy's is red, and Susan's is seersucker. Way to choose the wrench, Susan.
Linking up with This Ain't the Lyceum for Friday Quick Takes and you know I'll be back on Wednesday. I never miss the first Wednesday of the month because WHAT WE'RE READING WEDNESDAY!
On Wednesday, Lucy made her first appearance of the day at nearly 11 o'clock am and informed me that she was leaving for a party at 5. I very matter-of-factly stated that she was making dinner.
She put chili in the slow cooker and baked corn bread from scratch. Boom.
2. Rather than wrap up the St. Jude's school year in some formal way, it just faded out. Still fading. Fading out. Fading out. Just fading out....
We are still watching documentaries and educational programs on Netflix all the time. Can't quit the 'flix.
Some of our favorites include
Ted Talks.
Leap Frog. Math or phonics, it doesn't matter. Jill loves the opposites, the rhyming, the counting, all the things. I only wish there were more Leap Frog shows streaming and Jill wishes there were more Netflix Leap Frog shows with the cute dogs aka Scout and Friends.
Patrick was a little hot about some of the more obvious propaganda points. For example, the movie makes a point of saying that life and health insurance companies invest in Big Food companies. Patrick says that all large companies with 501k programs invest in portfolios and those portfolios will include Big Food, but not because of some nefarious partnership.
On the whole, Fed Up packaged the Sugar Is Bad For Us message along with lots of other new messages about science and diet and exercise, which is great because I was calling this "science class."
For example, exercise is NOT going to help Americans if they consume soda and processed foods. There aren't enough hours in a day to work off those calories. The Calories In, Calories Out message is ripped to shreds.
There are many sad statistics about the health and future of American children.
I had no idea how difficult it is for children to make healthy food choices in a public school setting. Jamie Oliver taught us how public school kitchens do not have cooking equipment. They only have "heating-up-processed-food-equipment."
The partnerships between fast food companies and soda companies and public schools was news to me. Horrifying news. I'm bothered that my daughter's private high school has a soda machine, but public school kids are being given junk food for free?!?
Jamie Oliver is spot on when he says that the problem is education. He wants to educate people on how to cook in their homes. He says every child should graduate "knowing how to make ten dishes that will save their lives."
5.
Edmund cooks every day. Every single day, he starts off by making a wholesome breakfast from scratch. No cereal here, unless there is some sort of early morning crisis, like we are out of eggs.
6.
Jamie Oliver. Edmund. Both dyslexics who love to cook. I'm working out a brainstorm here. Edmund. Cooking show. YouTube. Teaching kids how to cook dishes that will save their lives.
And I can call it Science!
7. If you were 12 years old and going to make a vlog or series of YouTube videos, what kind of equipment would you need? What kind of program would you use? Asking for a friend.
1. Birthday Trifecta Week is over. Three birthdays, three parades, three cakes, three birthday dinners.
My feast was the best. Patrick grilled salmon (and Italian sausages because he has that thing about fish) AND he grilled avocados for this Grilled Avocado and Tomato Salad recipe from John Besh. Grilled avocado is a brand new wonderful thing that we are going to eat a lot of this summer.
2.
Edmund won't finish a book because he "doesn't like it." I told him I finish every book I start. His response, "You're a geek." I said to give it to page 100, then decide.
Patrick said, "You're right." I said, "I know. You can't tell until page 100 if it's worth it or not."
Patrick said, "No, he's right. You are a geek."
I get no respect.
3. Jill adores Polly. Worships her. And speaks to her in this weirdly deep voice, "Heh behbeh."
Heh Heh beh beh. Heh Chubs.
Speaking of Polly, she walks. She only takes steps if no one is looking or paying attention to her. She's a baby ninja.
4. Things are gorgeous here.
Breathtaking.
Pulchritudinous.
5.
Last weekend, Lucy changed up our exterior home decor with a spot of paint. Don't you love it? I sure do.
6.
Check out our entry way now! Look at all of those hooks just waiting to be overloaded with jackets and bags.
7. Today is Prom!!!
Today is also the four hour European history test from noon to four so send up a prayer that we can get her hairs done by 11:30am. I fired up my hot rollers for a test drive last night and she's been scouring Pinterest.
Unfortunately, my Irish-dance-wig-putting-on skills are not helping me at all.
I'll be discussing important things like the uncanny similarity between Lucius Malfoy and Thranduil the Elven King,
and whether or not my husband can pull off the blonde wig look again this Halloween
and where we can find him a giant moose to ride.
But seriously, I'm going to chat books and other things with Allison Gingras on A Seeking Heart on May 4th. Be sure to download the Real Life Radio App to your Android or Apple device so you can hear our folksy chat.
I imagine it's going to be like SNL Coffee Talk or the SNL NPR bits.
Or more likely she will be all suave and sophisticated and I will be like this:
2. Ever tried to comment on this blog and it didn't work out? Please try again today. I'm trying something new. I really really want to hear from you.
Mom, please give it another shot. :) Or just call me.
Don't know what Gallipoli is or how to pronounce it? Neither did I, but my high school freshman, Lucy, filled me in.
I'm not that savvy with my history dates. I just happen to follow @kensingtonroyal on Instagram and they are gearing up for a big memorial. Mostly I just follow because I like to see Princess Kate's clothing choices.
Looking for a good movie about the invasion at Gallipoli? So am I. The Mel Gibson one on Amazon Instant Video is not it unfortunately. The beginning is slow but okay, the end is tragic but okay. The middle has porn and prostitutes. Not okay.
Perhaps Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner, in theaters this weekend, will prove better.
True confession. Aside from the asassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, everything I know about WWI, I learned from Rilla of Ingleside, War Horse, and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (and Gallipoli the movie and the boardgame Stratego).
It ain't much.
Hit me with all of your good First World War aka The Great War literature recommendations by loading up my brand new open to all readers combox. Danke!
4. Movie Rec
We all greatly enjoyed The Conspirator available on Amazon Prime or on Netflix.
It's all about the trial of Mary Surrat who was allegedly one of John Wilkes Booth's conspirators in the Lincoln assassination, and who also happened to be Catholic. (Lots of esses in the word "assassination.")
Several famous actors star in The Conspirator, including Rory Gilmore, Kevin Kline, Princess Buttercup, and Mr. Tumnus.
This movie is fine for the whole family as long as the whole family is fine with watching Lincoln and Booth get shot in the head(s?) and footage of the other murder attempts.
5. Book Rec
The Conspirator pairs well with the audio book we are still listening too. Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson. (Yes, I know I mentioned this book here, but I hadn't actually listened to it yet.) The author draws upon every detail in the attempt on Secretary of State Seward's life and the plot to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson.
Did you know that Booth and his cohorts planned to murder three of the top political leaders of the nation in one night? Not just Lincoln? Well, I sure didn't.
6. Girl Talk
Susan is gearing up for her "season." Prom is coming up and her graduation gala is later in May. No caps and gowns at her all girls' academy. Graduates wear long white dresses with elbow length white gloves.
Her gala dress is actually a wedding dress from ModCloth. I bought it last summer, but they still have a few one in stock. I absolutely love it. I wish you could see the back because BUTTONS!
We got her prom dress from an online shop called Promgirl of all places. We rejected other prom dress websites because of poor return policies. Promgirl has a great return policy and an enormous selection.
Too bad her #promposal isn't up on YouTube. Several senior boys (from the brother school) made an adorable and hilarious music video to Uptown Funk to invite their dates.
Remember that scene in the Sound of Music where the family is at the music concert singing So Long, Farewell and they do this?
They did that. Too cute.
7. Bizniz
May 6th is the May WWRW Link Up date, but I keep the party doors open all month. Have a book review post from April? It's not too late to join the April WWRW party!
