Tag: books
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted on That Artsy Reader Girl. Be sure to check out her blog for other takes on this week’s topic! If fall is the season for all things cozy, for me winter is a time of reflection and stillness. This is the time of year I most enjoy reading in depth…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Be sure to check out different takes on this week’s freebie topic on her site! * * * We are currently bird sitting for one of my partner’s coworkers. Gizmo is an adorable green-cheeked conure, but goodness birds are so much work! We’ve learned a…
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Join me as I read through the Oakland Public Library poetry collection. So this week has not quite gone to plan, and this book is going to be a few days overdue. Whoops. But I’m glad that I finished it and didn’t just turn it back in because I so thoroughly enjoyed Troy Jollimore‘s collection,…
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I’m the kind of person who always brings a book to the cabin and…never reads more than a few pages of it. I go on trips with several book and come back with most of them unread except for the audiobook on the plane. I’m often lucky if I get a single book read on…
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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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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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My Top 10 Reads of 2020
Akwaeke Emezi, Alix E. Harrow, Angela Carter, books, Brit Bennett, Casey McQuiston, favorite books 2020, Geraldine Brooks, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Novik, People of the Book, Reading, Red White and Roya Blue, Spinning Silver, Stone Mattress, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Magic Toyshop, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Vanishing Half, V.E. SchwabThis year I read 150 books, and though it was a bit of a mixed bag with plenty of books I didn’t finish and lots of reading for classes, there were still a number of great books. In fact there were well over 30 books this year that I unreservedly loved, and narrowing it down…
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In my reference class this semester we’ve been talking about how to find books for patrons in need of a new great read. The holidays are fast approaching and maybe you’re planning on getting a book for yourself or for someone else this holiday season. Need a good recommendation? You can drop a comment on…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings My partner and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary with sushi and an evening of watching…
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