Tag: reading books

National Family Literacy Month:: How and Why to Get Kids Reading...

National Family Literacy Month This year in November, most of us are thinking among other things about the election and Thanksgiving; however, a lesser known...

Para La Raza:: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

The beauty of our present time is that we have the power to explore various cultures through life experience, rich texts options, and of...

For the Love of Reading:: 11 Must Read Books by Black...

Updated February 2026 In the months since the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, many of us have engaged in the valuable...

50 Reading Recs for Fellow Book Lovers

National Book Lovers Day is celebrated August 9 each year. What are you reading today? I wandered into a bookstore recently where the characters did...

Dirty Words and Where to Find Them :: Romance Books to...

Need an escape into pure entertainment and want to get in the mood? We've got a collection of romance books that will do the...

A Family Affair: Reading Diverse Books with your Tweens and Teens

Updated February 2026 When I was growing up in the olden days - the 70's and 80's - it was almost impossible to find diverse...

Houston Moms Blog Book Club:: Read with us in 2020

In 2019, the Houston Moms Blog book club read Michelle Obama's Becoming Liani Tamani's Calling My Name Fredrik Backman's Bear Town Rebecca Makkai's The...

Losing a Legend:: Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense

A fixture on best-seller lists for decades, Mary Higgins Clark died at the graceful age of 92 on the last day of January after...

6 Books to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

This week, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a great humanitarian, known for his tireless efforts to fight for freedom, equality,...

Books That Will Keep Our Kids Reading

I've already admitted my undying affliction--I mean, affection--for children's books. So even though I did read a handful of books for grown-ups this summer,...