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Spring 2021 Sneak Preview – Little, Brown & Co.
There’s nothing more exciting than getting a BIG box of books delivered to your doorstep from a publisher. Last week, I received a box from Hachette, specifically the Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The box is filled with spring 2021 titles and I get a chance to read and…
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Four on Friday: Public Speaking & Debate
With all eyes in the U.S. on the 2020 presidential election, I felt that I should probably offer up some different titles than the typical “election” books that are available. (Although, I do have a list of those titles too!) Today’s Four on Friday: Public Speaking & Debate focuses more…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/19/2020
What I Read It was a bit of a week – a few unexpected things popped up and I worked on our first Saturday open to the public which cut into my weekend reading time a bit! Unfortunately, I was so exhausted most nights, I didn’t even crack open a…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/12/2020
What I Read This week I read three books, the first – Dear Universe by Florence Gonsalves is a YA contemporary fiction when all that matters is senior prom and graduation until it isn’t and how one girl manages her home life with finishing school. The second book I read…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/5/2020
What I Read I’m moving forward with this reading! Got held up in July and August, but my reading game is back and I’m super excited by it! I finished up The Candy Mafia by Lavie Tidhar and absolutely loved the noir-feeling of the book. You can read my review…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/28/2020
What I Read 2.5 books this week! I feel like in the past few weeks things have settled down enough at work. To the point, that I’ve got a better handle on balancing work, my blog, and my personal life. Granted, we’ll be increasing our open hours at work next…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/121/2020
What I Read I actually read three books this week, making me feel much more like myself! I read Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It’s an intense novel written with a deft hand. I also read Raising Lumie by Joan Bauer about a young girl raising a seeing-eye puppy.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/14/2020
What I Read Finally! I’m back in the reading game. I’ve had to very purposefully set aside time to open up a book over the past few weeks. And it’s working, I’m trying to go to bed earlier or take time during my morning or lunch time to read at…
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12 Titles for Healthy Eating
Every Sunday morning I walk the pup and then come home and sit down to plan my meals for the week and get my grocery list together. I find that we’re much better about eating healthy when we put a little thought into it. With that in mind today I…
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Black Panther Tribute
The death of Chadwick Boseman rocked the world as fans of his work can’t imagine what this means for the Marvel Universe and other projects for which he would make the perfect character. I loved Black Panther, it was probably one of my favorite Marvel movies. I loved the story…