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Spooky Season '24
I'm usually much more into spooky season than I am this year, and I think that it's so hot!
Oct 21, 20242 min read
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Finally read a challenge book: The Mill on the Floss
I don't know if any two characters I've come across in the hundreds of books that I've read in my life have made me half as tired as Tom Tul
Oct 13, 20232 min read
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Victorian children being cured by being allowed to run out of doors
I know that I've read this in more than these books, but I'm going to write about Heidi by Johanna Spyri and The Secret Garden by Frances...
May 9, 20232 min read
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What books do you like to read in Spring?
Some books are tied to the time of the year or the time in my life when I read them. In winter, I often want to read something...
Apr 30, 20233 min read
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Our Missing Books
Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451 (read by Tim Robbins) Ng, Celeste- Our Missing Hearts House, Silas- Lark Ascending Once again, I'm pulling...
Feb 18, 20234 min read
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Victorian Bears and Monsters
OK, these two books don't really have much to do with each other, except: Victorian, British setting really looooong sinister, selfish...
Oct 30, 20224 min read
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Alphabet Reading Challenge: s, t, u, w
Strong, Anthony M- The Haunting of Willow House Tarkington, Booth- The Magnificent Ambersons Unsworth, Emma Jane- Grown Ups Walker,...
Dec 12, 20213 min read
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Children's favorites: Emily and Anne
When someone gave me the awesome Christmas present of the Emily of New Moon trilogy, I didn't like it! I didn't like old-fashioned books....
Nov 21, 20214 min read
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Challenge check-in: halfway(ish) through April
Reading Paradise Lost, Shakespeare essays, The Night Swim, Wives and Daughters, and starting on Plain Bad Heroines.
Apr 30, 20215 min read
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March 2021: challenge check-in and a galley
Titles from my alphabet reading challenge and my Goodreads reading challenge. Also one YA book and one galley.
Apr 4, 20216 min read
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Challenge check-in: mid-Feb 21
Goodreads list: Haig, Matthew- The Midnight Library Nonfiction: Didion, Joan- Let Me Tell You What I Mean Stretch: Dickens, Charles-...
Feb 20, 20214 min read
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2021 reading goals: challenge level
When I was in my last year of college, I decided that I was reading too many old books (I really liked Victorian novels), so I made...
Dec 27, 20204 min read
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