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    Top Ten Tuesday: Goals for 2026

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    Inevitably, I always want to do better with my new year’s resolutions or goals than I actually do. Here’s my list of goals for 2025. Let’s got through them and you can see just how not great I did! Log reading for the year on The Storygraph – Didn’t do…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Occupations in the Title

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    This was a fun list to pull together and I’ll be honest to say I started with a completely different list of books before pivoting to the list I pulled together below. Rather than choose ten different occupations, I decided to share ten books with the word “librarian” in the…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count

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    This theme could also be labeled, “Books that would make great doorstops” because these titles are quite hefty! Almost all of the books I’ve selected are over 1,000 pages and are chunky. And I’ll be the first to admit, I’ve only actually read one of the books on this list…

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    Read Alouds for Fifth Graders

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    I believe that one of the biggest disservices to children when it comes to literacy is that many caregivers stop reading aloud once a child has learned to read. Reading aloud is extremely beneficial to children of all ages and should continue long after they are reading independently. My niece…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set Around the Partition of India

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    I enjoy reading historical fiction to learn about time periods that have come before now. I especially enjoy learning about events and people that I don’t know much about. While there was a lot of time spent on World War II in school education, there was little discussed about what…

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    Titanic Books for Curious Kids

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    The Titanic is a historical event that will live on forever. If you’re a millennial like myself, you’ll probably have some really strong memories of Celine Dion singing My Heart Will Go On with young Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in your mind. I think it’s one of those things…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Honorifics in the Title

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    This Top Ten Tuesday theme was a little trickier than others, especially because I tend to focus on children’s books. And while stories like Dear Mr. Henshaw and Because of Mr. Terupt would have worked, I decided to take a different route and focus (almost) solely on historical fiction romances!…