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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/10/2020
Last Week A Wish In the Dark by Christina Soontornvat was so, so, so good! It’s probably one of my favorites for this year! Again, it’s been another week of very little reading, but this book was so engaging. Even when I could barely keep my eyes open, I’d try…
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Book Lovers Day
Here are five simple things you can do to celebrate Book Lovers Day! Visit an independent bookstore in person or online! Check out Bookshop.org to connect with your local indie and support indie’s all over the U.S. Take time to read together (or separately) as a family. Maybe dinner tonight…
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Finding What Brings Me Joy
I’ve mentioned a few times over the past couple of weeks that I’m finding it difficult to have enough energy to open a book. This has led to an average of reading one book a week and if you know me at all, that is extremely low. That being said,…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/3/2020
Last Week This week I read the YA debut, My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong. The publishers describe it as Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato. Ivy is sent to Beijing to stay with her extended family after a difficult start to her summer. It is there that…
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Netflix’s Baby-Sitters Club
I’m a child of the 90s which means The Baby-Sitters Club series was regular reading material for me growing up. I didn’t have many on my bookshelves at home, but I read dozens of them from the public library. Basically devouring them as fast as I could (even faster when…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/27/2020
Last Week Historical fiction when well written has always taught me something new. And that’s exactly what happened when I read The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee. I had never heard that during Reconstruction plantation owners looked to Chinese Americans for labor. After reading about Jo’s story, I did more…
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Adulting So Hard
There are some things I never thought I’d get excited about. Things like a freshly mowed lawn, getting a new roof installed, and buying kitchen appliances. But, they do! Which I think means that I’m adulting so hard in my thirties! I don’t necessarily love the act of mowing my…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/20/2020
Last Week This week I read Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite. I was so looking forward to this book and really enjoyed it! It’s the story of a graduating senior who makes a mistake at school and spends a few months in Haiti with her…
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From My Kitchen: Grilled Za’atar Chicken
I don’t think it’s much a surprise to my readers at this point how much I love to be in the kitchen. My work schedule is all over the place right now. And my partner and I have opposite schedules right now which means we’re eating pretty late every night.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/13/2020
Last Week I did it! I’m finally out of my reading slump! I contribute my reading slump to working long hours for the library and being utterly exhausted from making decisions that keep changing every single day! This week I finished Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys – a YA…
