Category: Thoughts About Books
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Why Read Old Books?
Do you ever finish reading a book and immediately want to talk about it with someone? Whether I love a book or hate it, I often finish with a huge desire to yap about it…or hear someone else yap about it. Do they hate the same things I hate? Did the scenes that moved me…
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ABC Post 13: What I’ve Been Reading Lately
I’ve been extra tired the past few days and don’t have the energy to post about important and potentially controversial topics like MLMs or artificial scents. So I’m gonna do an easy post today. Are you feeling nosy about what I’m reading? Well then this is the post for you. I try not to read…
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Books I’m Reading: Wives and Daughters; The Vanishing Half
Part 1: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell For several years I’ve been part of an on-again-off-again virtual book club. Recently we read Wives and Daughters, and instead of waiting until we were finished with the book to start discussing it, we had weekly reading goals followed by weekly WhatsApp chats. It was rather a…
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What I’ve Been Reading: The Lunar Chronicles, by Marissa Meyer
It’s been a long time since I’ve read something that was this fun. In my late teens and early 20s, the big fad in YA books was dystopian fiction. Some of it was done really well and some of it was done poorly, but the main reason I remember that era fondly was the imagination…
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What I’ve Been Reading Lately
A Tale of Time City, by Diana Wynne Jones Diana Wynne Jones is my favorite author, but this was not my favorite book of hers. It was missing some of the coziness and cleverness I’ve come to expect. Also, it dealt with time travel. There are always plot holes in time travel stories. Always. It…
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Thoughts about Books: The Watsons, by Jane Austen and John Coates
Jane Austen is known for her six main novels, but she wrote a few other novellas and fragments that aren’t particularly well-known, except to her die-hard fans. Personally, up until now I’d only read the main six. But a friend lent me a copy of The Watsons, an unfinished novel by Austen that was then…
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Thoughts About Books: Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel
I would like to start briefly (or not-so-briefly) posting my thoughts about every book I read. This is not quite like a review. Just thoughts. To me, there is no pleasure quite like thinking about books. The most recent book I read was Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel. I read it because Amy…
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Giveaway!
Edit: Giveaway is now closed. Hi everyone, Today I’m giving away a copy of my book, The Highway and Me and My Earl Grey Tea. Entering is simple: Just leave a comment below telling me your favorite Christmas/holiday tradition. Or, just leave a comment. Any comment. Unless your comment specifically says “don’t enter my name…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 