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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/23/17
This week I read some really great middle grade titles – Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar, All’s Faire In Middle School by Victoria Jamieson, Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, and Posted by John David Anderson. These titles were all very well written and ones that I can’t wait…
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Book Review: The Littlest Bigfoot
Synopsis: Alice lives life almost invisibly – her family ships her off to school, she doesn’t have a single friend and she knows that she isn’t pretty with her big, bulky frame and her wild hair she calls a mane. So when she saves Millie Maximus’s life at her eighth boarding…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/16/17
I was surprisingly able to get a little reading done last week, even with how busy I was. I read What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold and The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner and started Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar. I’ve got some catching up to…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/9/17
I kicked butt reading this weekend. You know how when you eat a really great meal and you feel full, but so good? Well, that’s how I felt reading this weekend. I started out the week reading The Librarian and the Spy by Susan Mann, a romance novel a coworker told me…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/2/17
I can’t believe it’s October! The older I get, the faster time seems to go! I’m working on trying to read more throughout the week (rather than sitting in front of the television after dinner) and this week it seemed to work! I got a chance to read: Elsie May…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/25/17
I’m back! I made it safely back to the States last Monday evening and spent the last week catching up on sleep, laundry, emails and work. I’m glad to say that I think I’m starting off this week in a really great place – and that I read far more…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall TBR List
New fall releases from picture books to young adult titles! La La La by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated Jaime Kim (Release Date: October 3, 2017) I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness by Susan Verde, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds (Release Date: September 26, 2017) The Princess in Black: Mysterious Play Date…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Loved During the First Year I Started My Blog
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been blogging since 2011 and it’s amazing to think that I didn’t have anything in my mind worth sharing with the world. It’s been an awesome journey and one I know that will continue to change as I change and it was fun to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Were a Chore to Get Through
I read a number of these years ago and I’d really like to go back and re-read at least a little bit of them to see if I feel the same way. Most of the books on this list are loved by others, but for whatever reason I just couldn’t…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/28/17
This week I got a chance to read The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris and Sparrow by Sarah Moon and started reading Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork, which I can’t wait to finish because only a few chapters in, I’m already invested in the story and can’t wait to see what happens.…