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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Art

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    It’s April first and the first day of the 2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge! This year, I’m sharing all children’s nonfiction titles. And I know, before you say, what the heck is she thinking?!?!? I promise you, children’s nonfiction books are some of the coolest books on the market…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024

    Top Ten Tuesday

    These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books

    Top Ten Tuesday

    While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025

    Top Ten Tuesday

    In order to work on my bookish goals for 2025, I thought it might be smart to look back at my goals for 2024. And not surprising after the year that I had, I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to in terms of these goals. I was really…

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    2025 Word of the Year

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    2024 Before I jump into sharing my 2025 Word of the Year, I’m going to take a moment to reflect back on the past year and how my 2024 Word of the Year helped to guide me. My 2024 Word of the Year was trust. I chose it after careful…