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Top Ten Tuesday: Romance Books Involving Food
Feeding people is my love language. I love to cook, I’ll bake, but I truly love to cook and love to spend time in my kitchen. I’m the type of person that (tries) to meal plan every week with well-loved recipes and new options that make both my partner and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Great Families in Middle Grade
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is a relationship freebie – friendship, romance, family, etc. And so, today I’m sharing all about great families that you’ll find in middle grade novels. Many of these stories have large immediate families which reminds me of growing up with my own family. I am…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
My first instinct with this post was to head straight to picture books, after all, transportation-themed picture books are some of the most popular books available. But, I decided to take this theme in a little bit of a different direction and focus on road trips in middle grade novels.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Series I Want to Read
Today’s theme: Favorite Book in a Series was just too overwhelming for me to consider! I’m also extremely horrible at finishing series. One of two things happens – I either get super frustrated by one of the books in a series because it just doesn’t feel as strong as the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: I Wish More MG Books Were Set Outside the U. S.
While today’s general theme was “Books I Wish Had More/Less [Insert Your Concept Here] In Them”, I went in a little bit of a different route because I love learning about different places and cultures and I’d love to see more middle grade books set in places outside the United…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Debut Novels I Want to Read
Here’s a great list of debut novels for 2024 that are on my TBR and I’m hoping to read at least one of them this weekend! You’ll find young adult and middle grade titles on this list and I love supporting debut authors because the publishing world is a hard…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Things I Loved About When Green Becomes Tomatoes
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano and illustrated by Julie Morstad is a beautifully written book of poems that takes readers from March 20 all the way through the year to land back in March at the end of the book. The poetry is beautifully…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Beach Reads
Rather than hitting up the dozens of summery themed romance novels, I decided to switch it around a little bit and share some great picture books today! And while I love the idea of the beach, as someone who is very pale, the beach is a lot of work to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with My Favorite Color on the Cover
My favorite color for as long as I can remember has always been teal. I love the combination of blue and green that can either go dark and moody or bright and cheerful. I’ve even done this prompt before for Top Ten Tuesday focusing on all middle grade novels with…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Summer 2024 To-Read List
I’ve got a bunch of great romance titles on my summer TBR list this year – all of which have been published in the past couple of months! For many people, summer is a time to spend time reading when they don’t normally. Summer for me is much more of…
