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Top Ten Tuesday: Wintry Picture Books
I love snow, especially when I’m safe at home and don’t have to drive anywhere in it! I chose to highlight ten picture book titles that showcase snow and what humans and animals do when it snows. With diverse illustrations, poetry, nonfiction, stories, and more. You won’t want to miss…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Family Relationships
This week’s theme was to focus on platonic relationships and I decided to take a close look at family relationships after just spending a long weekend with a lot of my own family. The families in these books are either blood-related or adopted, but just as important are chosen families –…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Thankful For
These are ten titles that I’m thankful were published this year. I wanted to highlight diverse titles that were published – highlighting different races, religions, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, socioeconomic statuses and more. Diverse titles are still not as easy to find as I’d like, especially when you only have a handful…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Items I’d Like to Own
This was a great exercise in curating a list for Christmas and my birthday. I found some really great things that are adorable and would fit perfectly into my home! I love small little nods to my literary passion – necklaces that you have to take a closer look at.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Books I Want To Read
I’m constantly wishing I had more time in each day to get to all the books I want to read. But sadly, I haven’t quite figured out how to do that yet! I’ve got a host of backlist titles I’d love to read, but then they keep publishing new titles!…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Spooky Middle Grade Titles
This week’s theme is spooky, scary books, a genre, I admit, is not one that I read that often. I’m not a huge fan of spooky books, tv shows, and movies, so it was honestly difficult to come up with ten titles that I’ve read recently! I focused on middle grade…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Villains
This week’s theme is a look at the best villains in books. I read a lot of realistic fiction and there’s always a villain, but it isn’t always a person (although there are a fair number of mean girls!) it’s often a theme or social issue. So, rather than focus…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookstore I Want to Visit
I love bookstores, but rarely spend time in them for lack of self-control (and space!) I’m desperately running out of bookshelf space at home to add new titles, so I’ll have to find more space before I purchase too many more books. But, that being said, there are some fabulous…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Longest Books I’ve Ever Read
I’m not a HUGE fantasy reader, which is where a lot of those really long titles are, but I’ve created a list of books that are all close to or over 500 pages (which, I think, is still a lot!). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’d Like to Meet
I’ve been blessed to meet a number of authors and illustrators in my career at conferences, book festivals and expos. But a few who I would love to meet (and haven’t yet) include the authors below. I chose my list based on the titles they’ve published (which I’ve loved), interviews…
