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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 12/19/16
I spent another great week reading! This is becoming a trend (again) and I love it! I’m still working my way through The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman, but I also read Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina, Ghost by Jason Reynolds, Dory Fantasmagory: Dory Dory Black Sheep by Abby Hanlon and Some Writer!: The…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/31/16
I got a lot of reading down over the past 24 hours (not so much throughout the week)… I finally finished Start With Why – not a book that was easy for me to get through, it seemed a little all over the place and wasn’t as well organized as I…
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Top Ten Tuesday: All About the Villains
I wanted to focus on villains in more of a fantasy setting than in realistic fiction and you’ll see that’s kind of where I leaned for this list. The problem with that is I’m not a huge fan of anything scary – books, TV shows, movies, haunted houses, etc. So, this is definitely not…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/9/16
This week I got back into the reading game and read a bunch of middle grade novels, which felt great! Here’s what I read this week: The Best Man by Richard Peck Wishing Day by Lauren Myracle Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern Me and Miranda Mullaly by Jake Gerhardt…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/2/16
I have a lot of reading to do! Especially since I picked up a bunch of ARCs at PLA in Denver a few weeks ago! I try and read each one before it’s actually published and then either pass it on to a reader at work or send them…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed Recently That Weren’t My Typical Genre/Type
Roller Girl by Victoria JamiesonI am not a huge fan of graphic novels; I’m a quick reader and I think I don’t spend enough time looking at the art, feeling as though it gets in the way. But I loved Roller Girl! The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by…
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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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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/8/16
I read exactly what I had planned this week, plus a few picture books thrown in! I got the chance to read On the Run by Tristan Bancks, check out my review. I also read The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate both by Jacqueline Kelly a turn of…
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2015 Nerdies
The 2015 Nerdies have officially been announced! Take a look at all the amazing titles from each category: Fiction Picture Books Nonfiction Picture Books Early Reader and Chapter Books Graphic Novels Poetry and Novels in Verse Nonfiction Middle Grade Fiction Young Adult Fiction (Part One) Young Adult Fiction (Part Two) The…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Halloween Picture Books
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was a Halloween freebie and since I focus so often on middle grade novels (which I love), I thought I’d focus on ten Halloween picture books that I personally enjoy. It might have also been decided in this way because I don’t like scary books……