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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/28/16

    I feel like I’ve been in a reading rut, but I finally got some quality reading done this week and have a few books to hit up before PLA next week!  This week I read – Zombie Baseball Beatdown by Paolo Bacigalupi, a crazy story about zombie cows, small town life,…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Love

    Today’s Top Ten Tuesday official title is: Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven’t Talked About Enough/In A While.  I decided to head over to Young Adult (since I don’t get to talk about these books as much as I’d like!) Not If I See You First by…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/7/16

    This week I read Jackaby by William Ritter, which I absolutely LOVED!  The book is described as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Who – which I can definitely see.  I loved the mix of mystery and fantastical elements and I’m really looking forward to the next in the series.…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/29/16

    It was a very busy week!  Working late a few nights, working for a little bit on Saturday and a ton of birthday parties Saturday and Sunday to celebrate (which left me very little time to read!)  I did read The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, a horror fiction story about wasps…

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    It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 1/22/16

    I read SO many books this week!  I, unfortunately, got the 24-hour bug as well which left me down-and-out (of work) for two days when all was said and done, but I definitely put the second day to good use, getting a lot of reading done! This week I read:…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’d Give a Theme Song

    Echo by Pam Munoz RyanThis books just begs for a theme song with the harmonica tying three stories together spread across multiple decades. This book needs a theme song. Crossover by Kwame AlexanderCrossover already has got such a great beat with the novel in verse, it’s another book that just has…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/28/15

    Over the course of the week, I finished Serafina and the Black Cloak and absolutely loved it!  I also read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, which made me want the sequel immediately!  And I started working on Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones.  I didn’t get to any…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/21/15

    This week I read Appleblossom the Possum written by Holly Goldberg Sloan which is a very different style from her previous work County By 7s.  It’s an adorable story about a little possum who accidentally falls down a chimney and with the help of her brothers is able to escape.  It’s an…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/14/15

    I’m two weeks behind in my reading, but since I didn’t get to much this week this should work.  Over the past two weeks, I finished Shadowshaper, which I absolutely loved.  I also got my hands on a copy of Sunny Side Up and was blown away by the Holm’s take…