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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is about Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a young German soldier, in the besieged town of Saint-Malo in 1944 as the Allies are liberating it....
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Thoughts on Wonder
Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a book about middle-school kids, probably written for middle-school kids, but is one that everyone should read. Wonder is about August (Auggie) Pullman, who is 10 years old...
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Thoughts on A Tale for The Time Being
I picked up A Tale for The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki based on recommendations of a few bookish friends with whom I generally share reading tastes, but honestly I wasn’t sure about how I’d like it. I’m...
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Sitting Around on a Sunday — Bingo Update #2!
I managed to fill three more squares on my bingo card in July: Middle Grade Book: Wonder by R.J. Palacio, which was amazing and which I reviewed here. By an author of a different gender: The Assault...
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Readers’ Workouts
The Readers’ Workouts meme is hosted at Joy’s Book Blog. This is a place to share exercise successes and challenges. This is how I felt after my workout with the Marine last night: I felt like I...
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The Ghost Bride – TLC Book Tour
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo is an interesting novel set in a world few in the West are familiar with. Set in 1893 in the Malaysian port city of Malacca, it is a story about Chinese traditions...
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The Story Hour – TLC Book Tour
I know this will sound strange, but Thrity Umrigar is an author whose work I love yet I often forget about her. On the on hand, I am ashamed of this, but on the other it makes me that much more...
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Summer Reading Bingo Wrap-Up
Well, what do you know, I got a BINGO!! The book that got me to the bingo was Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (book with only words on the cover). It was a nice short (142 pages) read about...
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TLC Book Tour – Liar,Temptress,Soldier Spy
I was born and raised in Canada, so the Civil War was not something I formally learned about in school. Because I have always been a curious sort, though, I picked up information about the war here...
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TLC Book Tour – Us by David Nicholls
Even though I am an avid reader, I rarely have had the occasion to read the perfect book at the exact moment of my life that I should be reading it. That does sound cryptic, and perhaps I don’t quite...
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