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    Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons Why I Don’t Finish a Book

    Top Ten Tuesday

    I may be becoming the person who never follows the exact prompt of Top Ten Tuesday! But, while today’s official prompt is “Books I Did Not Finish” I don’t like to be so negative on my blog and while I may not have liked some books, that doesn’t mean it…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Characters That Have Stuck With Me

    Top Ten Tuesday

    While today’s official prompt is “Things Characters Have Said”, I had to adapt it a bit since I am the worst reader when it comes to remembering many details. And if I had tried to find ten things characters have said the list would be extremely disjointed and would have…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Time

    Top Ten Tuesday

    Historical fiction titles have been some of my favorite reads for most of my life. I started reading historical fiction with books like Little House on the Prairie and the American Girl series and now I love to read middle grade and YA titles that expand beyond some of the…

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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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    Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2024

    Top Ten Tuesday

    I’m going to come right out and say it, these may not have been the best books I read in 2024, but they were some that I really enjoyed reading/learning from. I didn’t read as many books as I had expected to in 2024, but I don’t put too much…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Oldest Books On My TBR

    Top Ten Tuesday

    I don’t keep a very active TBR or to be read list because inherently I ignore the list and just grab whatever strikes my fancy and whatever is available when I’m ready for my next book. But, I was able to scrounge up ten books on my shelves at home…