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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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ALA’s 2025 Youth Media Awards
This morning, the American Library Association announced the Youth Media Awards. The most popular being the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. But, in actuality, there are over 20 award announcements this morning! Today, I’m sharing the winners and honors and a little note about what each award is for and what…
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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…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Holiday Romances
I didn’t really want to follow this week’s prompt, but thought I could still participate by sharing some holiday romance titles. I’ve read a few of these with a few more on my TBR list for this season if I can get them from the library. So, if you’re like…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Winter 2024-2025 To-Read List
Today’s list includes a host of middle grade titles all being released at the beginning of 2025. With lots of great authors behind these books, I can’t wait to get my hands on them! And with only a few more weeks to the new year, do you have the first…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Read During a Storm
For today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme, I decided to select some middle grade books that have a winter setting. While not all of these titles are set during a storm, I feel like curling up with anyone of these books during a winter storm would be the perfect companion. I…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Destination Titles
Some Top Ten Tuesday themes are simple to pull together and I know exactly what titles I’m going to pull for the list. While others, like this one are a little more difficult to pull together. I ended up browsing through my Goodreads account to pull together ten middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List
Fall is officially here and while my schedule has gotten crazier than I had imagined it would this year, I have some hope that I’ll get to a few of these great middle grade books this season. I’m so excited to see books written by some big name in the…
