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Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Books with Travel
I love a road trip and with my own vacation coming up soon, this was the perfect theme for me this week! Today, I’m sharing ten middle grade novels about travel and whether that’s a road trip with your favorite people, running away from something or running toward something, or…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With the Word Library In the Title
I don’t think it’s surprising that a librarian would choose to create a book list with the word library in the title! And that’s what I did! I did create a list of books from picture books to adult fiction (and nonfiction) all about libraries from the fantastical to the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons Why I Don’t Finish a Book
I may be becoming the person who never follows the exact prompt of Top Ten Tuesday! But, while today’s official prompt is “Books I Did Not Finish” I don’t like to be so negative on my blog and while I may not have liked some books, that doesn’t mean it…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters That Have Stuck With Me
While today’s official prompt is “Things Characters Have Said”, I had to adapt it a bit since I am the worst reader when it comes to remembering many details. And if I had tried to find ten things characters have said the list would be extremely disjointed and would have…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Time
Historical fiction titles have been some of my favorite reads for most of my life. I started reading historical fiction with books like Little House on the Prairie and the American Girl series and now I love to read middle grade and YA titles that expand beyond some of the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To
While today’s prompt is 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To, there are so many books I haven’t gotten to yet! So, I decided to create a list of ten middle grade titles that I really want to read and even have some of these…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024
These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025
In order to work on my bookish goals for 2025, I thought it might be smart to look back at my goals for 2024. And not surprising after the year that I had, I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to in terms of these goals. I was really…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025
There are so many amazing books being published just in January, I didn’t even really get past this month of new titles! I grabbed one picture book that was published in December that looks absolutely adorable – Ten-Word Tiny Tales for Love and Laurie Halse Anderson has a new historical…
