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Nov 29, 20222 min read
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...
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Nov 19, 20224 min read
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...
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Nov 11, 20222 min read
Language studies and survival skills 2: the kids are not alright
Barry, Quan- We Ride Upon Sticks Novik, Naomi- The Golden Enclaves In this edition of Language Studies and Survival Skills: The Kids Are...
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Oct 30, 20224 min read
Victorian Bears and Monsters
OK, these two books don't really have much to do with each other, except: Victorian, British setting really looooong sinister, selfish...
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Oct 21, 20223 min read
Halloween reads for 2022
It's time for my annual tradition of scaring myself half to death by late October! Books: King, Stephen- 'Salem's Lot Searles, John- Help...
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Oct 8, 20223 min read
The Reading Life: Trying and Failing to Keep Up
Reading is my favorite thing. It's fun, it's solace, it's instruction, it's inspiration. But I'm about to write the third post in a...
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Sep 25, 20224 min read
The Reading Life: the Trouble With Holds
As librarian and a life-long enthusiastic library user, I love putting holds on books at the library. You don’t have to try to catch the...
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Aug 21, 20224 min read
The Joy of Re-Reading: The Silmarillion
Tolkien, JRRR: The Silmarillion The first time I read it I'm not going to summarize this book. It's a hard book to summarize; odds and...
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Aug 13, 20225 min read
The Reading Life: When and why to ditch a book
When I was a kid- not just a little kid, but all through school, and probably all through college- I completed every book that I started....
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Jul 24, 20223 min read
The Joy of Re-reading: Circe
If you love to read: -about a woman telling a bully who is much bigger than she is, "You don't know what I can do," -or, if you love...
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