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2015 Favorites.
This was not a great reading year for me. I won’t go as far as saying these are the best of a bad lot, because that’s not true, but my reading slump was so pervasive that, at times, it felt that way....
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Dear Santa…
I’d like to think I’ve been good this year, but I suppose only Santa knows whether that’s true or not… In no particular order, though – theoretically – each once fills a niche on my shelf. Or under my...
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Fiction To Look Forward To: Early 2016
My list is all over the place this week. It represents a little bit of everything I read, though I struggled to come up with 10. I think this has to do with the fact I just made a list of anticipated...
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Goal.
I resisted the urge to title the post “Goooooaaal”, but it was a near thing. I don’t know whether it is a good thing or not, but I am (generally) a driven person. I love goals and to-do lists. At the...
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Historical Settings I Enjoy
Salem Witch Trials. Growing up in the Boston area, Salem was a big part of our New England history curriculum. We even took a field trip there. I’d love to say it was as fun as Hocus Pocus, but alas,...
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This Is Not a Love Story.
Okay, okay, I lied. A little. There is a bit (or a bunch) of love in each of the following novels, but most are not intended to be a “love story” and certainly not genre romance. They are, instead, are...
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Songs to Inspire a Novel
When I started this blog it had a much bigger focus on music, so it’s no surprise that I was excited to see this week’s prompt (songs I wish were novels). While I’ve moved away from that – and in the...
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Ten Books for the Botany Lover in Your Life
Mammillaria germinispina Please note I mean botany lover and not botanist… Though I imagine they can be one and the same. In this case, it’s for the casual fan of botany, bordering on eco-lit fan....
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Childhood Idols
I will take a minute to be thankful that we are not judged on our childhood idols. Right? Right. If we were, I’d clearly be blond, meddlesome, and prone to trouble – but also, I’d be absolutely...
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Best of the Bad Guys
And gals. There are so many ways this list could go, from the truly terrible Judge Holden of Blood Meridian and the ghastly Cathy of East of Eden to the more humorous, but no less evil Corrine of...
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