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The Book Journal February 2023
Is there anything better than an impulse book from the library? All of the joy of an impulse bookstore purchase but for free!
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A Stack of Half-Read Books
We all hear about and talk about (and read about) what it means to finish a book. I’m sure I will finish all of these books and have plenty to say when they are done. But this month showed me just how much power starting a book can have as well.
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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
The real power of the book is how it is part memoir, part oral history.
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The Book Journal January 2023
January was full of un-packing, catching up with friends too sick to celebrate the holidays last month, and tackling all of the work that everyone agreed could wait until the new year, so I’ll admit it was a strange month of reading.
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The Book Journal December 2022
The last month of 2022 was full of holidays parties so in between catch-ups and cocktail hours I tried to squeeze in as much reading as possible with as little to do with Christmas as possible (well, with one exception anyway.)
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben MacIntyre
I have a list of history writers ready whenever someone claims history books are too boring. Lindsey Fitzharris, Erik Larson, Annette Gordon-Reed, David McCullough, Greg Jenner… there are plenty of historians who know how to turn archival or oral history into a good story. Ben MacIntyre is my newest addition to the list thanks to…
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
… you don’t need to know about Poe to enjoy the novel. You just need to love a creepy story involving late night sleepwalking, deathbeds, reanimated corpses, a mysterious monster, and a thoroughly charming narrator.
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The Book Journal November 2022
This month was a bit of a variety show including a gothic novel, two biographies, some non-fiction essays, and plenty of mysteries.
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The Book Journal October 2022
This month was full of heartbreak and humor – but not from the same authors.
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True Ghost Stories
This year though I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole of true ghost stories – that is true stories of people and ghosts.
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