Sarah Anne Carter

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Yearly Archives: 2019

Smartest Kids in World — What is the best way for a nation to educate its children? Amanda Ripley explores that question in The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way. The author looks at education systems in four countries – America, South Korea, Poland and Finland. The book is not just full of facts and statistics; it is full of personal stories from children

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got ...

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on March 1, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

My Family's Survival — My Family’s Survival is a true story about the author’s grandmother (Rachel) and her relatives survival during the Holocaust.

My Family’s Survival: The true story of how the Shwartz ...

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on February 25, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Little Fires Everywhere — “Perfection: that was the goal, and perhaps the Shakers had lived it so strongly it had seeped into the soil itself, feeding those who grew up there with a propensity to overachieve and a deep intolerance for flaws.” When Mia and Pearl move to the community of Shaker Heights, they […]

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on February 22, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Reading — Find more time to read

Find More Time to Read

This entry was posted in Reading Writing About Reading on February 20, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Glitter and Glue — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Things happen when you leave, when you walk out the door, up the driveway, and into the world.” Kelly’s mother and father have always been so different. Her father is laid-back and likes to host parties. Her mother worries and is more introverted. In the book, their […]

Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Memoir on February 18, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Night to Remember — The sinking of the Titanic was avoidable, but the loss of life that night is tragic. The details of that fateful night have been passed on by survivors and compiles in the book A Night to Remember.

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Historical Non-Fiction on February 15, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Bookseller — In The Bookseller, Kitty wakes up from a vivid dream where she is married and a mother. Her real life couldn’t be any more different – she is a single woman who runs a small bookshop with her best friend, Frieda. The dream is hard to shake but it’s when she keeps goin

The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on February 11, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Side Hustle — Chris Guillebeau goes step-by-step on how to figure out a good side hustle idea and then make that idea come alive and thrive.

Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on February 8, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Reading — I am trying to read at a slower pace this year and read books that are already in my house on or my Kindle. I read 9 books in January and two of those were books I already had on hand. The rest were library books (including an audiobook) except for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which I bought for a book club I started locally.

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – January 2019

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged bookshelf on February 6, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter

Tattooist of Auschwitz — The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the author’s interviews with a man named Lale Sokolov who wanted to talk to someone about what he saw and experienced in Auschwitz after his wife died.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on February 4, 2019 by Sarah Anne Carter