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Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share our auto-buy authors—in other words, authors whose books we would automatically buy without even really knowing what their new book was about beforehand. Personally, there are few authors whose books I would automatically purchase, but there are many authors …
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Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is a character freebie, which means we can choose any theme we wish as long as it involves characters. I thought it would be fun to list some characters that I relate with for various reasons. Some of these might be obvious …
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Happy Tuesday!! This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share books by some of our favorite authors that we haven't read (yet). Because I've had very little time to read lately and much of my reading is dictated by class reading lists, this particular list of mine could …
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Happy Tuesday!! Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is supposed to be books I've loved but will never reread, but I've decided to scratch that and add a bit of a twist to it. Because I ADORE rereading books, there's a likelihood that I'll reread almost any book that I …
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Happy Tuesday!! The end of 2017 is just around the corner (!!!), meaning it's time to reflect on what I've read thus far this year. Today's Top Ten Tuesday theme highlights the best books we've read in 2017, and fortunately I have plenty of fantastic texts to choose from. I've decided to limit my list …
It seems fitting that books by two of my favorite authors—Willa Cather and John Green—would connect across different centuries. As mentioned in a past Top Ten Tuesday post about pairs of classic and contemporary novels, I’ve found many interesting parallels between Cather’s The Song of the Lark (1915) and Green’s Paper Towns (2008). Thea and …
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I first joined Goodreads in December of 2010, which means that I've been an active member for SEVEN YEARS. When I first discovered that such a website even existed I was ecstatic-- finally, a place to connect with other people about BOOKS. Today I am still a loyal Goodreads user, so you can imagine how …
Happy Tuesday!! The lovely bloggers behind The Broke and the Bookish are back with their weekly TTT themes and we’re starting off with a great one. Since today’s topic is open-ended, I’ve decided to share my Top Ten Book Recommendations for Outdoorsy Bookworms. My love for camping, hiking, and spending time in the mountains tends …
July was a blur of hot days, air-conditioned office spaces, lakeside reading, and time spent with friends and family... not a bad way to spend the bulk of summer! Here's what I was up to this past month: In July I read a total of 9 books: Hard Times by Charles Dickens North and South by Elizabeth …
One day while reading a short bio of Willa Cather I stumbled upon the fact that she's buried in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, only an hour and a half from where I live. As you can imagine, I was ecstatic. I was shocked when I learned she's buried in NH because I knew she was born …
