Category: Books and Reading
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Raising my Frequency
So I’ve been listening to an awesome book – You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero. I love this author and everything she has to say. I’ve checked out the book from the library and have been listening to it as much as I can while in the car – commuting, running errands,…
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It’s been awhile
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I’ve been busy with life. Too busy to write about books I’ve been reading. I’ve been busy finding and buying my first house, moving, (all while pregnant and working full time), giving birth, and raising my son. He’s a beautiful boy. And while I’ve been busy with all of this, I’ve still been reading. Just…
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Something new
So, I haven’t been posting to this blog recently – I just haven’t had time lately… However, I did post a few days ago to the Ravenous Reader Blog which my library runs. My post was called Horror in the Woods, which refers to a book I read recently, not the branch where I work. Unfortunately due…
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Procrastination 2013
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Happy Belated New Year! I started writing this a couple of weeks ago to post in mid-January – and it had been a while since I had finished the books then…. Some parts of my life just feel as though I am wading through quickly drying mud. A couple of weeks ago, I was going…
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The Dog Stars
By Peter Heller I found this book to be extremely moving. While the story is both grim and bleak, it is also wondrously hopeful and beautifully written. The story is about love, courage, and finding one’s home. It is written from the main character, Hig’s, perspective in short segments. While the first part of…
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October is a Great Month for Nordic Noir
Often I will put books on hold with the library and they all tend to come in at once – or in a very short time period. This is what is happening right now. I’ve had many items on hold for months which have started to arrive. First I got Phantom by Jo Nesbø. I…
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Bless Me, Ultima
By Rudolfo Anaya It’s been three weeks since I’ve returned from a visit to NYC on a not fun plane trip and a really long time since I’ve posted here. And I read most of this book on this excruciating journey. The woman who was sitting next to me joked about me finishing the book…
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Gone Girl
By Gillian Flynn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2012 This book has had over eight hundred holds on it in my library system for the past couple of months. It is the must read of 2012. I think I first became aware of it through EarlyWord, but it wasn’t until I put…
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Masques
By Patricia Briggs Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2010, 1993 Recently at work, I was checking in books and this book passed through my hands. I am mostly familiar with Briggs’s more recent Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega series – both of which I love. I did read Dragon Blood a little while…
Ra's Spiral Path 