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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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(many, many) books about dealing with and overcoming uncertainty
Given the stressful circumstances that many of us now find ourselves in, I thought that today I would share many, many books about dealing with and overcoming uncertainty. Each book listed is linked to a post or review that I’ve written about it (if there is one), in case you want to learn more or Continue reading
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Dear LONGBOURN by Jo Baker: An unconventional companion to Pride and Prejudice
Dear Longbourn by Jo Baker, I’ve had my eye on you for a while. When I was in high school I worked as a page at my local library, and I would often pick you up when I walked by you on the shelf and read your inside flap, intrigued by your basic premise. A Continue reading
About ME //
i’m holly — former english major, current twenty-something book lover, allergic to nuts. drop me a line at nutfreenerd@gmail.com or on instagram.
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