Tag: books
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There is always a lot of controversy when public libraries (or really any libraries) get rid of books. In 2015, the Berkeley Public Library chief resigned due to controversy over weeding books. This was due largely to his behavior and attitude around removing thousands of books, but there are many stories about community members being…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It has been a long time since I’ve written. Since that time I’ve spent 3 weeks in Taiwan and 10 days in Paris. I’ve got travel posts coming, but I thought today I’d start with a book post. This week’s…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s topic is all about “books you could re-read forever.” There are a lot of books I read, but there aren’t many I re-read, and even fewer that I would read multiple times. The books that make this list tend…
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Happy 2018, everyone. I hope that you had a good New Year. I spent New Year’s eve with my family, celebrating my Nana’s birthday, and then my husband and I spent New Year’s day driving back home from Portland. The New Year is always a great time to look back on the year behind you…
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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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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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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.…
Allison Burris 