Month: April 2020
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Dear THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orleans: major Fahrenheit 451 vibes, an arson mystery, and librarian nostalgia
Dear The Library Book by Susan Orleans: One of my favorite genres of books–if you can call it a genre–is books about books. This category also encompasses books about libraries, so you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across you in audiobook form on the Libby app. Somehow I had never heard about the…
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#escapril book recommendations (30 books!)
I’ve been working on today’s post for some time now, and I’m really excited about it! Today I’d like to recommend 30 books to you based on the #escapril daily prompts. #escapril is a poetry challenge created by Savannah Brown in which people write a poem every day based on the daily prompts. Here’s her…
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Dear EDUCATED by Tara Westover: Worth the hype?!
Dear Educated by Tara Westover, You are one of the most hyped books I’ve read in a while. Not only did you appear on countless must-read lists, but you were also recommended to me by numerous bookworms online and friends in person. At first I was quite skeptical, I must admit. How good could you…
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Dear THE PALE KING by David Foster Wallace: for a book about boredom, you were surprisingly interesting
Dear The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, I have a tendency to enjoy books that many readers deem boring, dull, longwinded, and painstakingly meticulous. (Examples? Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Grant by Ron Chernow, etc.) There’s just something about an author putting in an enormous amount of time…
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#stayhomereadingrush TBR
I adore the Reading Rush. I participate in this week-long readathon every summer and it’s so much fun to be part of such a large online community of bookworms all reading at the same time. Fortunately, the Reading Rush folks have decided to set up another readathon while so many of us are social-distancing at…
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5 Classics for April
In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. Where I live, April is a solid month of rain, interspersed with some light springy days that tempt you with promises of sunny May. Accordingly, the theme for this month’s classic recommendations is going to be…
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SUNDAY SHOUT OUTS! | 5
Hope everyone is doing well! Life feels a bit more unpredictable than usual right now, so I thought I would continue sharing some posts from other bloggers in the midst of all this chaos. I think we could all use a good distracting blog post! Here are some great posts I’ve read lately: 10 Things…
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