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Jul 312 min read
I can't read when I have a headache, and I can't stop having headaches
I had to call in sick, and I watched 3 movies. All this free time, and I'm watching TV like a dummy. I just can't read when my head aches.
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Nov 15, 20234 min read
Sometimes books and movies help!
I've written before about needing to read an easy book after a hard book, but this time, the movie I was watching to co
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Sep 13, 20234 min read
Am I getting too persnickety about what I read?
I've recently DNF'd three books that I'd been very excited to read, and two of them were just today, so I'm starting to wonder. Am I gettin
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Feb 26, 20234 min read
Book recovery: following up a hard book with an easy book
Markley, Stephen- The Deluge Gallico, Paul- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Yeah, I'm really pairing these two books. Bear with me, and I'll...
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Oct 8, 20223 min read
The Reading Life: Trying and Failing to Keep Up
Reading is my favorite thing. It's fun, it's solace, it's instruction, it's inspiration. But I'm about to write the third post in a...
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Sep 25, 20224 min read
The Reading Life: the Trouble With Holds
As librarian and a life-long enthusiastic library user, I love putting holds on books at the library. You don’t have to try to catch the...
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Aug 13, 20225 min read
The Reading Life: When and why to ditch a book
When I was a kid- not just a little kid, but all through school, and probably all through college- I completed every book that I started....
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