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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Never Reviewed
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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2024 CYBILS Award Winners
The Children’s and Young Adult Book Lovers’ Literary Awards are a little different from the awards you’ll often find on the ALA Youth Media Award Winners list. And that’s because these books are chosen by judges who are book lovers – typically bloggers and content creators that absolutely love children’s…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Loving YA Families
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
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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ALA’s 2025 Youth Media Awards
This morning, the American Library Association announced the Youth Media Awards. The most popular being the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. But, in actuality, there are over 20 award announcements this morning! Today, I’m sharing the winners and honors and a little note about what each award is for and what…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
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
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: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025
There are so many amazing books being published just in January, I didn’t even really get past this month of new titles! I grabbed one picture book that was published in December that looks absolutely adorable – Ten-Word Tiny Tales for Love and Laurie Halse Anderson has a new historical…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I Read in 2024
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
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…
