Moffat p&l travers biography
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Mother Reader
I'm
Susie
, mother to three sons aged 4, 6, and 8. I am a homemaker and home educator and my husband and I live in northern Florida, U.S.A. We love to read aloud together. I started reading voraciously on my own about 8 years ago. I'm happy to share about my journey here!My mother-in-law inspired my habit of reading aloud with my children. As a newlywed twelve years ago, I often looked through the books that lined her shelves. She still has many of the paperback books she had read to her five children. My husband often talks with gratitude about how his mother read good books aloud to him when he was young. When our oldest son was born, we began reading together a lot! As an adult, I became friends with someone who was herself a reader, and I wanted to read more so I could have something to share in our conversations.
Growing up I remember loving The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper and Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. Today, some of my favourite non-fiction authors are Alan Jacobs, Elisabeth Elliot, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, and Katherine Paterson. Some of my favorite fiction authors are middle grade novelists I didn't read until my 30s: E.B. White, Eleanor Estes, George Selden, and Linda Sue Park.
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When it came to my viewing material in 2017, it was a year for feminist icons. I finished Xena Warrior Princess, revisited Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and got started on The X-Files, finally meeting Agent Dana Scully in the process. I was introduced to the likes of Laura Cereta, Ada Lovelace and Katherine Johnson. I watched The Handmaid's Tale and Still Star-Crossed and Big Little Lies.
This year we saw women as Jedi, women as Star Fleet captains, a woman as the Doctor. We got Michael Burnham and Jessica Jones and Rosaline Capulet and Eleven. It was the year of Rose Tico, Phillipa Georgiou (however briefly) and the announcement of a live-action Mulan. A couple of days ago the trailer for an all-woman Ocean's Eight was dropped. We got Amazons and Valkyries and the Dora Milaje. It's like the universe has decided if we can't have a woman for President, we're damn well gonna get women as EVERYTHING ELSE.
Korra and Asami returned from their honeymoon holiday in deep canonical love. I discovered the wonderfully damaged-but-not-broken Dutch on Killjoys. Max not only survived the conclusion of Black Sails, but prospered. Orphan Black stuck the landing and gave its clones a beautiful send-off, filled with happiness and love a
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