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Top Ten Tuesday: Beach Reads Week
Summer’s almost here and for most people that live in this area it means traveling “down the shore” for weekends and week-long vacations. Vacations are a distant memory and goal for the future as summer reading will be here in a few weeks and I’ll be at work answering reference…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/30/16
I’m so proud of myself this week! I read all three books that were on my list from last week. Nothing But Trouble by Jacqueline Davies is a fun story about two girls who couldn’t be more opposite and yet become friends and co-conspirators to increase class spirit in a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed
I chose to stray just a little from this week’s topic because my feelings towards books usually stay fairly similar from when I read them and as time passes. As I’ve said before graphic novels aren’t my favorite format for reading, but I’ve read many graphic novels that I really…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/23/16
This week instead of reading, I spent a lot of time getting ready for a work happy hour hosted at my house. Between cleaning the house, mowing the lawn and cooking/baking, it left me with a lot less time to read than I wanted to, but I did get to…
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National Readthon Day
Today is National Readathon Day, the second annual event hosted by Penguin Random House and the American Library Association. I’m apparently not a very good blogger because I didn’t pay attention to this until this week and haven’t had time to check out the website with great ways to throw…
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25 Children's Books for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
I’ll be honest, I had to do some research to really understand what countries, heritages, cultures, and religions Asian Pacific American included. The Asian Pacific American Heritage Month website created in part by the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim
Most of the books I read, I learn about through various blogs, Twitter mentions, and talking with colleagues, but every once in a while I’ll just pick something up as I ‘m assigning a call number to it. Some of these are also ARCs that I received at ac conference…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/16/16
I spent last week participating in Bout of Books and although I didn’t hit my goal (by one book), it was a great week of prioritizing reading and I got to read a number of great books! This week, I’ve read: Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg School of…
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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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Teacher Appreciation Week
I’ve been lucky to have some amazing teachers in my lifetime, specifically my parents who along with raising four kids are both professors at a university. My favorite school teachers (and the ones I can remember the best) are the ones who read aloud to us – a few even…