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2021 Project LIT Titles
Project LIT is spending the next few weeks announcing the 2021 titles for both middle school and young adult readers. This grassroots organization began in 2016 by Dr. Amato of Nashville to empower readers and has spread to over 1,700+ schools and communities around the world. The goal is to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Memories
A walk down memory lane on this Tuesday morning! I’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of bookish memories, but I’ve included a few that really stand out in my mind. Some of these memories are about certain books, while others are book-adjacent having to do with my career and my…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/29/2021
What I Read I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! Because my family travels for the holiday weekend, Thanksgiving begins on Wednesday and doesn’t end until Sunday for me. It was a little different this year, just due to everyone’s schedule, but it worked out. I got to spend…
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NYPL Best Books 2021
As I mentioned when I released my gift guide last week, it’s that time of year when all the “Best of” lists are being published from organizations, libraries, blogs, and more! Today I saw the New York Public Library’s Best Books 2021 list is available. With suggestions for kids, teens,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d Love an Update On
This was such a fun list to pull together! I wanted to know about how these characters are faring after big things have happened in their lives. I want to explain, but don’t want to say too much about each of the characters in case you haven’t read these yet.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/22/2021
What I Read A little work/life balance leads to some amazing things! Even working late a little bit this week, I actually read four middle grade books! That’s a great reading week for me, especially lately! I even got a lot of the house cleaned up and organized. I’ll have…
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Goodreads Choice Awards 2021
It’s the time of year when you start seeing “Best of” lists and “2021 Favorites” almost everywhere you turn! The National Book Award winners were announced last night. I don’t tend to read a lot of the National Book Awards as they focus primarily on books for adult readers. And…
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2021 Holiday Kids’ Book Gift Guide
I love sharing books as gifts! Partially, because I love books and reading, but also because books can be extremely personal gifts. I regularly gift books to readers in my life. Last year, all of my friends received books from me – titles that I thought they would enjoy based…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Read if You Love the Baby-Sitters Club
My formative years were spent in the 90s which means the original Baby-Sitters Club books by Ann M. Martin were an essential part of my TBR list for many years. I read dozens of these books, checking them out of the library by the stack. And if anyone couldn’t already…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 11/15/2021
What I Read Well, the best-laid plans! I was planning to be off from Thursday – Sunday this week and was super excited to work on some blogging ideas and get a lot of reading done! But, unfortunately, I had a few staffing situations that required me to head back…