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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/30/18
I’m getting back into the groove of reading more regularly again and I read two really great books this week – The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson and Forever or a Long, Long Time by Caela Carter, plus I also started The Art of the Swap by Kristine Asselin and Jen Malon. This week, I’m…
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24 Must-Have Books for Babies (7-12 Months)
After talking briefly with a new momma/blogging friend, we brainstormed creating a list like this for new parents who may not have any idea where to start when creating a library for their little one. If you’re looking for Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you won’t find them on this…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Frequently Used Words To Describe Middle Grade Titles
This is a little something different, rather than rattling off a list of books, I spent some time really thinking about the words used in middle grade fiction and here are ten that are (I believe) fairly commmon: Family Friends Overcome Invisible School Diverse Coming-of-Age Hope Belonging Identity Middle grade…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/23/18
Short recap for the week – I finished up A Possibility of Whales by Karen Rivers and promptly didn’t get to any other books! My mom and good friend are in town for a long weekend which has been absolutely wonderful. We’ve had beautiful weather and spent a lot of time…
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24 Must Have Books for Babies (0-6 Months)
I love when my friends announce their pregnancies – it’s another excuse for me to love on their kids by buying them lots and lots of books. In fact, I’m really starting to regret that I didn’t create a spreadsheet with kids’ names and books gifted to them because I…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books for My Brother
This week is a FREEBIE week for Top Ten Tuesday, so with my brother’s birthday today, I decided to create a top ten list just for him. Growing up, my brother wasn’t much of a book reader, but he loved sports statistics and could rattle off stats for pretty much…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/16/18
I’m slowly getting back into the groove! I’m really trying to do some higher quality workouts when I’m at the gym which means that I’m not riding a stationary bike and reading a book because although I’m working out, I know I should be doing better. So, I’m back to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved But Will Never Re-read
I used to re-read books all the time when I was little, finding comfort in the stories that I knew from cover to cover. Now, working in the library and on this blog, I rarely feel as though I have the time to re-read books at all (which is why…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/9/18
This week was so weird and I’m completely blaming the weather with snow flurries, rain, sun, clouds, warm weather and cold which led me feeling sleepy, a little cranky and not in the mood to read… I’m hoping to finish up The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta today and over the weekend…
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18 Titles to Inspire Kids Under 18
Since the February 14th school violence shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, more teens and kids are becoming politically active to change the laws to better protect other children in school. Each time the news reports on a horrifying event like this, my heart breaks a little more and…
