Tag: Reading
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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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TTT: 10 Series I Can’t Wait to Finish and/or Start
Alan Bradley, book series, Discworld, Douglas Adams, fantasy, fiction, Flavia de Luce, Great Cities, Hannah Whitten, His Dark Materials, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Jasper Fforde, N.K. Jemisin, Patrick Rothfuss, Philip Pullman, Reading, Sarah J Maas, Shades of Magic, Terry Pratchett, The Kingkiller Chronicle, The Wilderwood, Throne of Glass, Thursday Next, V.E. SchwabTop Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Are you the type of person that can finish a series? I am….not generally that person. There are a few series that I love–that I’ve read multiple times, but to be honest those are mostly books that I started as a kid or young adult.…
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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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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re discussing a new book: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara. Hayan Charara (1972–) grew up in Detroit, and some of his poetry deals with the decay of this particular urban landscape, his Lebanese cultural roots come through mostly in meditations…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. We’re talking about another new volume of poetry today, published in 2021: You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson.. Andrea Gibson (August 13, 1975-) is a queer poet, whose work focuses on LGBTQ+, health, and social justice themes. They are a well known spoken word performer as…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Anyone else absurdly motivated by arbitrary reading challenges other people have set? I started subscribing to Book of the Month when I bought a 6 month subscription for my friend for Christmas. It’s now her annual gift. We don’t coordinate our choices–sometimes we choose the…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s Poetry collection. Taking a break from the 20th century, let’s spring ahead to something published this year. Rae Armantrout (1947-) is a Pulitzer winning poet (2010 for Versed). She has published something like 10+ collections, which seems amazingly prolific to me. She was born and did her undergrad and…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was books with geographical terms in the title, and while I was looking through my read books (thank you, Story Graph), I noticed a trend. All of the geographic terms I was encountering were through fantasy books. So I leaned into that…
Allison Burris 