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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/22/16
I read SO many books this week! I, unfortunately, got the 24-hour bug as well which left me down-and-out (of work) for two days when all was said and done, but I definitely put the second day to good use, getting a lot of reading done! This week I read:…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’d Give a Theme Song
Echo by Pam Munoz RyanThis books just begs for a theme song with the harmonica tying three stories together spread across multiple decades. This book needs a theme song. Crossover by Kwame AlexanderCrossover already has got such a great beat with the novel in verse, it’s another book that just has…
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Top Ten Tuesday, December 29: Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The First Half of 2016
Here’s my Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2016. I’m sure I’m missing some really great options, but these are the ones I found quickly and am really excited to read! Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics by Christ Grabenstein ~ Publication Date: January 5, 2016 The Girl in the…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/28/15
Over the course of the week, I finished Serafina and the Black Cloak and absolutely loved it! I also read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, which made me want the sequel immediately! And I started working on Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones. I didn’t get to any…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/21/15
This week I read Appleblossom the Possum written by Holly Goldberg Sloan which is a very different style from her previous work County By 7s. It’s an adorable story about a little possum who accidentally falls down a chimney and with the help of her brothers is able to escape. It’s an…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/14/15
I’m two weeks behind in my reading, but since I didn’t get to much this week this should work. Over the past two weeks, I finished Shadowshaper, which I absolutely loved. I also got my hands on a copy of Sunny Side Up and was blown away by the Holm’s take…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Finished Series I Have YET To Finish
A lot of times, I’ll try and read the first in a popular series so I can get a feel for the storyline, but I rarely have time to read the whole series, unless it’s something I really enjoy. I also have strong feelings about trilogies… I love the first…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/31/15
I got through a good number of books this week! I really enjoyed Currents by Jane Petrlik Smolik, a story interwoven between three young girls in the mid 1800s. I have always loved historical fiction and this book was really interesting! The next book I read was called The Education of Ivy Blake…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/24/15
I don’t know what happened this week, but I got very little reading accomplished. I was expecting to read a lot on Monday (I had the day off) but instead ended up at a pop-up concert with Stevie Wonder in Philadelphia. It was a lot of fun, very hot, and…
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The Iron Trial
I’m still battling a wicked cold/flu thing that forced me to spend time relaxing this weekend, which allowed me to get a lot of reading done! And boy, did it feel great! I finished The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare and read all of I am Malala:…