Author: allison burris
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This series is being born out of a dangerous whim, which I can only attribute to the temporary giddiness of a new library card. Upon seeing the (truthfully rather average sized) poetry collection at the main branch, I was seized by an impulse to read from one end of the poetry section to the other.…
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It has been… an interesting few months. Blogging and writing was pushed to the edges as buying our new home took over every waking moment. We didn’t realize how many pages would make up the housing disclosures (over 600). We did not know we would need to read these in 24 hours (which I did)…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I actually have two TBRs. I have the one that I keep on my phone through Story Graph and the stack of books I own. When I buy a book off of my digital TBR, I take it off the list. This is the easiest…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. So many delightful bookish things are out there…it’s really a pity I live in a studio apartment at the moment. There’s not much room for collecting things (even when they are adorable). But these are 10 items I think would be worth the space! I…
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You think you’ve read a lot of poetry for your degree and from whenever you’ve picked up a random collection…. and then you start reading established poets talk about poetry and you realize that the scratch you thought you’d made has in fact left no visible mark at all. Some of these poets I’ve known…
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There’s a lot of things in life that we just can’t control–like if the friend who borrows your favorite book will actually read it in a reasonable amount of time and return it. But if you’re really worried about book thieves, you can take a leaf out of the medieval scribe’s book (only figuratively though…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ve recently been devoting more (read most) of my time to reading and writing poetry. While I’ve been reading for years, I consider myself a novice in the poetry world. There’s. Just. So. Much. Out. There. I know a lot of readers don’t really know…
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April Showers Bring May Roundups
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Arsenic and Adobo, books, Brandon Taylor, Brit Bennett, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Charles Yu, Daughter of Fortune, Edward Carey, Elisabeth's Lists, fiction, Get a Life Chloe Brown, Hafsah Faizal, Howards End, Interior Chinatown, Isabel Allende, Isabel Ibanez, Isabel Wilkerson, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Lucy Worsley, Mia P. Manansala, Reading, Real Life, Salman Rushdie, Talia Hibbert, The Girl with the Louding Voice, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Mitchells vs the Machines, The Mothers, We Free the Stars, WolfwalkersEventful Events and Happening Happenings We got our first Covid shots! And our second Covid shots! Two steps closer to quasi-normal life! I’m very excited about it (if you couldn’t tell). It took almost two weeks to get an appointment and we’d been checking every day and then all of a sudden appointments! It was…
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Just as a disclaimer–none of my links are paid/sponsored/solicited. It’s just stuff I like or wanted to share. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings March was a crazy month for me. It’s always kind of a crazy month because there are so many family birthdays in March, but this year was especially hectic. Two of my…
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