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The Book Journal March/April 2025
My dear fellow readers, happy belated independent bookstore day! I hope everyone went out and celebrated the book to the best of their ability. Even if you’re on a budget, I hope you at least dropped in and soaked up the magic of the bookstore.
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The Book Journal February 2025
February was cold and gray and overall drab so I had plenty of early nights tucked up with a book. I see some sunshine in my future, but here are the books that have kept me busy for the past few weeks:
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The Book Journal January 2025
I hope everyone has been giving themselves time during these difficult, overwhelming, long winter evenings with a good book. I have definitely been spending time with plenty of great books. Here are my highlights from the start of the year:
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My year so far…
Dear Readers, As you may have noticed, I have not written to you all for most of the year. Unfortunately, at the start of this year I was faced with a major operation which upended pretty much all of my plans including writing this blog. Fortunately, I have come through the other side and spent…
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The Book Journal January 2024
January is over and I’m relieved. Most of my family ended up with a nasty bug so in between naps, television, and doses of cold medicine, I read what I could
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The Book Journal December 2023
The start of December was full of happy hours and end-of-year catchups but that lovely week between Christmas and New Year’s Day was also full of excellent reading time!
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The Book Journal November 2023
My November reads included witches, vampires, and ghosts but they also included plenty of very real horrors from history and the specters that haunt our society today. The bookshelf offered plenty of remarkable characters and stories, but I was glad for the chocolate from the leftover candy bowl to go with it.
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A Woman Walks the City
I am grateful for those years of company during lockdown and those reunions after. Being alone must have been terrifying during that time and I wasn’t alone. Now, though, the world is breaking the structure of the past few years and settling into a new one. Being alone might not be just because of illness…
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The Book Journal October 2023
This month involved a trip to London curated by a local museum that I have been looking forward to for almost a year. I was able to look at some amazing, beautiful, very old books. However, my actual reading was minimal.
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The Power of the Comfort Read
This summer was a major time to test my instincts because it was filled with stress and worry. Books, by authors I knew would help, brought me a great deal of comfort. Now that the situation has passed though, it’s made me curious about my choices. My question is, what makes a book comfortable?
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