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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: Books on My Spring 2025 To-Read List

    Top Ten Tuesday

    There are so many books being published and I’m excited to see some of my favorite middle authors are publishing new titles this spring! These are only ten of the titles that are being published over the next few months and if you’re looking for even more great middle grade…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: YA Mysteries

    Top Ten Tuesday

    Today’s prompt is “Books that Include/Feature [insert your favorite theme or plot device here]” and while I’m intrigued to see what others come up with, I decided to focus on a specific genre rather than theme/plot device. Today I’m sharing some (fairly) new YA mysteries. Like the historical fiction genre,…

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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: Books I Never Reviewed

    Top Ten Tuesday

    After years of book blogging, I’ve come to the realization that I really don’t like writing book reviews. I don’t necessarily think that I’m a strong enough writer to write quality book reviews and I don’t tend to read carefully enough to take in the details needed for a book…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Loving YA Families

    Top Ten Tuesday

    Today’s prompt was a love freebie for Valentine’s Day and while I’ve done lists like 2024 Contemporary Romance Titles, First Crush Middle Grade Novels, 12 YA Couples for Valentine’s Day, and 12 Middle Grade Friendships for Valentine’s Day, I wanted to try something a little different and look toward supportive,…

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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…