“Do you have any books you listened to on the Odyssey Award committee that you think I would like?” I asked our teen librarian. She gave me this one. Had I read the back cover first, two years after the unexpected death of a male family member would have sounded really uncomfortably close, given that I started the book exactly two years after my ( Read more... )

Two books came in on the same day… part two.


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Not dead. Just now getting over early pregnancy narcolepsy. I've been reading lots of books while doing lots of eating, but having difficulty finding the energy to write reviews on top of everything else that needs to get done. I'm not going to write up reviews of the romance novels, but I will note as an aside that I read one where the ( Read more... )

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Here's some sweet summer fun:


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This one has been on the bestseller list for a while. I resisted reading it. Probably because the ladies were going to be dealing with depressing stuff and because it was a bestseller? So much for knowing my own tastes. Once again, my colleague S. put it on hold for me. And once I opened it, I had a really hard time putting it down.


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Could I resist a book about the travels of a beautiful illuminated book? No, I couldn’t.


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