Year: 2017
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. The period between Thanksgiving and the end of the year is typically a good time to wind down, but if you’ve got a big reading challenge to finish up it doesn’t alway feel that way. My grandma and I…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was characters that would make excellent leaders. This proved to be very interesting, and in picking characters I also thought about 10 traits that are important for leaders. I tried to pick characters that weren’t filling…
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I’m taking quite a few trips with my Nana this coming year, but even with a trip to Paris looming on the horizon, this little jaunt to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho was absolutely lovely. We went in early October, so it was definitely not tourist season anymore, and the air was brisk and the leaves were…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature, brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Happy Halloween! It’s so strange–as a kid you’re excited about Halloween no matter what day of the week it falls on, but as an adult I feel like I’m usually more excited about the weekend closest to it. This…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is unique book titles. And what sets a book apart more than a crazy title? Here are 5 books from my TBR list that have intrigued me on the basis of name alone: Stalking the Wild Asparagus–Euell…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Hello, dear reader. It’s been a while. I was moving, so I stopped writing. I was planning my best friend’s wedding, so I stopped writing. I was planning my own wedding, so I stopped writing. But now, it’s time to start writing…
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Title: Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air Author: Richard Holmes How it fulfills the challenge: Besides the normal strategic inserts of color photographs, the text of the book is studded with black and white pictures of hot air balloons, portraits of the balloonists who flew them, and various documents and drawings. Genre: Nonfiction Quick Description: A…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Let me just say that I’m not really good at reading books in one sitting. I’m not even very good at reading one book at a time. If I’ve “lost” my current book around the house, I’ll just pick up another one.…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. It’s finally warming up here in Idaho. I’ve always liked winter, but the weeks and weeks of snow and below 10 degree weather have been getting to me. Normally, spring is my least favorite season (daylight savings is the worst), but this…
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Title: Ethan Frome Author: Edith Wharton How it fulfills the challenge: This is sort of self-explanatory, but it seems like this kind of title was far more common in days of olde. There are a ton of classics that are named after their protagonists, but there are far fewer that are published now, or at least that’s…
Allison Burris 