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The Book Journal September 2023
When I sat down to look at my reading options at the start of the month I was almost dizzied by the possibilities! After tackling my summer reading project I’d almost forgotten how many other options I had (and of course how many new books were at the library). I have also now signed up…
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My Summer Book Report
To me, these were all the core of what used to make summer reader projects so enjoyable – they were chosen by someone else, often a bit more challenging than what I usually pick on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, or books I’ve heard of but not picked up.
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Poems not Prose
I don’t read much poetry now that I’m out of the formal educational system. Not because I don’t enjoy it, but because I’ve never been a very confident poetry reader so having a little guidance from a group or a class made all the difference. For the past two weeks though I’ve been unable to…
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The Book Journal May 2023
You ever have a month that truly gets away from you? The last few weeks have been a combination of amazing once-in-a-lifetime travel and stressful work responsibilities with very little book reading time in between. In the end I read plenty of guidebooks and magazines while sitting in airports alongside two novels, one audiobook, and…
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The Book Journal April 2023
I have been traveling a lot so there have been days this month with plenty of time to read and then days where I don’t get any reading time at all, so it’s been an interesting month of reading on planes, trains, and automobiles. Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste was everything I hope a modern…
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The Book Journal March 2023
The first hint of Spring arrived this month and although I love reading by the fire in the Winter, it was a good reminder reading outside in the sunshine is pretty great too…
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The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
There’s plenty to be said about a 500 something page family saga… beware spoilers abound!
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Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain by Jeremy Paxman
I love a book that teaches me a lot of things I didn’t know.
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