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8 Books to Celebrate Pi Day
Any excuse to celebrate and eat dessert is a good day in my book! So, let’s celebrate Pi Day (3-14) with these great pie-themed books. With five picture and three middle grade titles, you’re sure to find a book you’ll love and maybe even a recipe to try! Apple Pie…
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Spider-Man Read Alikes
A teen superhero who isn’t always taken seriously by the Avengers, Spider-Man is out to prove himself. He doesn’t like balancing his superhero good deeds with spending time at school or feeling like Iron Man’s sidekick all the time. But, that’s what he’s got in common with the characters in…
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Slice of Life Day 13: My Personal Library
I have a beautiful floor-to-ceiling bookshelf in my office that houses (most) of my personal library. It’s filled with books from board books to college class texts. But also includes picture books, middle grade, and fiction titles, and reference books for coaching, teaching, and photography. I’m very particular about what…
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New Podcast Alert!
I was just swiping through Twitter and found an announcement for a new podcast from Book Riot – Kidlit These Days. It’s hosted by Karina Yan Glaser, author of The Vanderbeekers series and Matthew Winner (school librarian and podcast host of The Children’s Book Podcast). I just listened to Episode…
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Slice of Life Day 12: Meetings
Much of my time as a director is spent attending meetings. Some more helpful than others. Last night was our Library Board of Directors meeting – this is an advisory group of township residents who work with me on projects for the library and meet monthly. My Board is extremely…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Standalone Books That Need a Sequel
I’m not a huge fan of trilogies or series, mainly because I’m reading books as they are being published and when the sequel finally appears on the shelf, I’ve forgotten everything about the first book! That being said, I’d love to see either a sequel, prequel, or crossover title in…
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Slice of Life Day 11: Rescue Dog
This is Aria, she’s a 5-ish year old rescue pitbull mix. And she’s absolutely loveable, cuddly, crazy, energetic and weird. Her gotcha story is probably a good place to start: We started looking for a dog about 6 months after we bought a house (one of the main reasons for…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/11/19
Last Week It was such a busy week! Monday and Tuesday were spent continuing to work on the garage renovation and I will tell you, it finally feels like we’re making progress! The walls are up, primed and painted and this weekend I finished up the lighting. Now, we’ve got…
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Slice of Life Day 10: Spring Ahead
It’s supposedly 7:15am and I’m all discombobulated! I fell asleep early last night after a busy day of garage renovation and deep cleaning the house (which now looks amazing)! After my dog woke me up requesting her morning walk, I realized just how dark it still is (plus it’s pouring…
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Slice of Life Day 9: Accomplishment
Accomplishment is a whole lot of wiringfive outletsfour LED lightsthree hourstwo YouTube videosone garage doorone light switchand one call to my Dadto actually work. If I don’t get anything else check off my to-do list today, that’ll be okay! I wired the garage! It’s coming along! The Slice of Life…
