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Celebrating the nerd life, being a huge dork, and geekery.
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Spooky season reads (and movies, and more)
what I've read, watched, and listened to this spooky season.
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Finally read a challenge book: The Mill on the Floss
I don't know if any two characters I've come across in the hundreds of books that I've read in my life have made me half as tired as Tom Tul
Oct 13, 20232 min read
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Am I getting too persnickety about what I read?
I've recently DNF'd three books that I'd been very excited to read, and two of them were just today, so I'm starting to wonder. Am I gettin
Sep 13, 20234 min read
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A ways back list: 2003
I like to take a look back to book lists of past years and remember covers that I haven't seen in a while, or books that I loved years ago.
Aug 31, 20232 min read
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Books from the Future: The September House
I wasn't crazy about this book, but it got a starred review, so ? I don't know. If you like ghosts, but it's funny, this might be for you.
Aug 23, 20232 min read
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Backlist Books: 2020
Why I like visiting the backlist and two titles I read this year that came out three years ago, The City We Became and My Dark Vanessa.
Jul 30, 20233 min read
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The Joy of Re-reading: Emily of New Moon
Revisiting LM Montgomery's Prince Edward Island, this time in an audiobook narrated by Megan Follows.
Jul 22, 20233 min read
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Well, that was weird: a short book list
Each of these books has something weird in it, except Lost Places, which is a story collection, and each story has something weird. The wei
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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My 2023 reading challenge check-in
I thought that I'd set the easiest challenge in the world this year. Since starting this blog, I'm always making book lists; often of...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
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In the footsteps of Jane Austen and L. M. Montgomery: books about their homes
Two books, one about the homes of Jane Austen in England, and one about L. M. Mongomery's homes in Canada, and the Green Gables house.
May 22, 20232 min read
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