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Book recovery: following up a hard book with an easy book
Markley, Stephen- The Deluge Gallico, Paul- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Yeah, I'm really pairing these two books. Bear with me, and I'll...
Feb 26, 20234 min read
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Our Missing Books
Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451 (read by Tim Robbins) Ng, Celeste- Our Missing Hearts House, Silas- Lark Ascending Once again, I'm pulling...
Feb 18, 20234 min read
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Marple, and more
Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Jean Kwok, Lucy Foley, Val McDermid, Ruth Ware, Alyssa Cole, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Dreda Say...
Jan 28, 20233 min read
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Some Gen-X books: Into the Wild and The Hours
Cunningham, Michael- The Hours Krakauer, Jon- Into The Wild (read by Phillip Franklin) My reading goal for the year is to read some of...
Jan 22, 20233 min read
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My 2022 reading challenge check-in
Well, it wasn't great, and it wasn't bad. Part of my reasoning behind this goal (read my own shelves) was that I am always buying new...
Jan 10, 20236 min read
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2022 favorite books
Novik, Naomi- A Deadly Education (fantasy, 2020, e-audio) Language studies and survival skills Liu, Cixin- The Three-body Problem...
Dec 30, 20222 min read
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Family Drama Books: vacation
Brown, Eleanor- Any Other Family Straub, Emma- The Vacationers Any Other Family Imagine a family with four young siblings being brought...
Dec 23, 20222 min read
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Things I learned while trying to get a little internet shop up and running.
I've been planning to open a shop online to sell things like t-shirts and posters for a long time, and this year, I decided it was time...
Dec 11, 20224 min read
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Christmas books for Christmas gifts
I love Christmas, and I love books, and I love books about Christmas. Sometimes I give Christmas books or music as gifts and send them...
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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The Disinvited Guest and Sea of Tranquility: the pandemic books are upon us
I have been wanting to re-read Station 11 for a couple of years now, but I couldn't read a pandemic book during the pandemic. It's...
Nov 19, 20224 min read
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