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    Top Ten Tuesday: 2026 YA Fantasy Titles

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    Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is a genre freebie and while I’ve done a number of middle grade genre book lists, I don’t spend a lot of time on young adult titles. But, I had to share some of these great YA fantasy titles that are being published this year!…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Quotes

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    I love quotations and I’ve got another set of fun quotes written by authors from a variety of genres, ages, and formats. And I love a quote about books, libraries, reading, and writing. Before you check out the quotes below, check out some of my other quotes that I’ve highlighted…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Armchair Traveler

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    I love to travel and while I don’t get to do it as often as I’d like, this was a fun list of middle grade books to pull together. Rather than a travel theme, I wanted to focus on books set outside the United States, an extension of the 20…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: First Crushes in Middle School

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    I’ll be the first to admit that I can’t imagine a first crush in middle school, as I was the girl with my head down reading any spare minute I could! I was not the middle school girl anxiously awaiting to grow up and get a crush. But, I had…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025

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    I couldn’t think of ten different discoveries for this post, but I did share five about my reading habits, fun concepts, and my thoughts on books as a whole! I don’t mind eBooks as much as I originally thought. I always thought that I’d read eBooks as a last resort…

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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 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…