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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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- dream-invader
- education
- end of year
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- food
- gender studies
- goals
- good omens
- Harry Potter
- health
- historical
- house
- humor
- I made a thing.
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- KonMari
- Latin America
- LGBTQIA
- lists
- memorable
- Middle East
- mini-review
- multi-read
- nonfiction
- photography
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- psychology
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Tag Archives: lists
Top Ten Series Quit
Today’s is an interesting topic, based on anything bookish you’ve “quit” (interpret how you like). I decided to focus on series today. This isn’t about series that I read one book for and never continued, but series I read a … Continue reading →
Top Ten Books on my Fall TBR
I’ve been listing my top ten seasonal TBR piles for the last year, and not once have I read more than 3-4 books off the list. Heh. Maybe this will be the season I break that pattern – especially since … Continue reading →
Top Ten “In Spite of the Cover” Books
We’re always taught never to judge a book by its cover, but nearly everyone does. If we didn’t, there wouldn’t be whole divisions of employees at publishing companies carefully crafting book covers to appeal to specific markets. All you have … Continue reading →
Best Second-Chance Books
In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo says that the time to read a book is the moment we acquire it (or become interested in it, I suppose, for those of us who do not really acquire unread … Continue reading →
RIP X
Turning leaves, shifting winds, airing out sweaters, and pumpkin-everything – wishful dreaming for this part of the world. With the temps sticking in the swelteringly hot upper 90s (if not higher), the start of RIP-season is a welcome occurrence. Soon, soon, … Continue reading →
Fat Girl Walking, by Brittany Gibbons (audio) + getting personal
Subtitled: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It One woman’s journey into body-positivity. Exploring her life through stories, Gibbons discusses the ins and outs of being a larger woman in our society, and how she … Continue reading →
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Top Ten Most Read Authors
I adore today’s topic! When I first read it, I wrote down all the authors I thought I’d read the most books from, and then I went back through Goodreads to tally actual numbers. For the most part, I was … Continue reading →
Favorite Things About My House
Last week, I mentioned that I could fill a whole post with just my favorite things about the new house. Well, um, that seems like a good list topic for today. Heh. So here we go! My favorite things about … Continue reading →
My Favorite Things About Being Home
It’s been about a month since we returned to Texas. I can’t say, and have never said, that I love everything about this state. The heat and politics in particular drive me crazy! But despite all that, this is home, … Continue reading →
Top Ten Books That Celebrate Diversity
This is both a fantastic topic and a very difficult topic – difficult because I’ve read so many great books of many sorts of diversity and it was hard to narrow down to a top ten! I debated between choosing … Continue reading →