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2019’s Book Challenges
2019’s Book Challenges Well, last year was a failure in terms of reading challenges and goals. Not this year! I am going to shoot for the moon so that if I fail I will complete at least two 🙂 Book Riot’s Read Harder 2019 (#readharder) – https://bookriot.com/2018/12/12/2019-read-harder-challenge/ The Strand BookStore 2019 Resolutions (#readsolutions) – https://www.strandbooks.com/readsolutions-2019…
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Memoirs I want to Read
Here are a list of memoirs I have my eye on: A girl walks into a book : what the Brontes taught me about life, love and woman’s work – Miranda Pennington How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child – Abigail Pesta and Sandra Uwiringiyimana How to be Muslim: An American…
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New Release Tuesday 01/28/2025
It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your…
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New Release Tuesday 01/20/2025
It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your…
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New Release Tuesday
It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your…
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Tuesday Book Recommendations
Reading this right before a presidential election in the United States, where the votes are seemingly along gender lines, was both unsettling and encouraging. Unsettling because sexism and misogyny seem so uniform and pervasive no matter where you go. Encouraging because giving voice to what is happening can be an awakening to those reading. This…
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Books that have been made into media
It seems like more and more books are being made into movies and tv shows these days! Here are 3 to kick off 2024. Boy Swallows Universe is releasing as a series on Netflix.Set in Australia in the 80’s, it follows a young boy and his older brother caught in a chaotic and violent world.…
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Literary Quotes
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – Anne Shirley | Anne of Green Gables
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The Regional Office is Under Attack
When I first heard of this book, the blurb was something like this: what if super powerful assassins stormed your office and you had a bionic arm? While that is a very small part of the story, it does setup a powerful image in your head and it’s what made me pick up this audiobook.…
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Runaways
On the Libby site for Brooklyn Public Library, you can see the latest recommendations from the librarians and this month there was an awesome focus on Pride Month. An ebook that caught my eye was Drama by Raina Telgemeier – a lovely middle grade graphic novel about kids doing the spring musical – and instead…
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Linden Hills
Not too long ago, a friend of mine lent me a copy of the Women of Brewster Place. As I had never read it, I was excited to dive in. Before I started though, she told me – this isn’t my favorite book by Gloria Naylor, I think some of her other novels are better.…
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