Welcome to Seeing Stars!

When my daughter Sarah and I decided that we wanted to begin a mother-daughter review blog together, we spent a while trying to come up with just the right name. We had a lot of laughs over some of our sillier choices, but at the end of our brainstorming we arrived at "Seeing Stars."

Why Seeing Stars? Well, we knew that we would be reviewing books and movies we love, and that got us thinking about stories we especially love. Right now Sarah (hereafter known as "Jedi Teen") is particularly into Star Wars (especially the original trilogy, films 4-6). So we knew we'd like to get Stars into the title. Then we thought of some of the books we both love, including Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and all the other books in that trilogy/quartet. Remember the star watching rock?

Seeing Stars also felt like a grand name because when we really, truly love a story, it can dazzle us. It also made us think of actually looking for stars in the sky and tracing the beautiful patterns of constellations. Hopefully we will point out many beautiful things in the stories we love within the reviews we post here. Finally, since we also plan to review movies, Seeing Stars seemed appropriate because when you watch a film, you're spending time with "movie stars"!

Jedi Teen is turning 13 this month. And I, her mother (hereafter known as Obi Mom) am 47. I've been a book and movie reviewer since Jedi Teen was a Jedi infant. And now she has been bitten by the review bug too. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!