only a couple weeks behind with this post.  truthfully, i haven’t been getting as much reading done as i thought i would this summer, but i’m doing okay.  i guess i have been busier than anticipated, and that’s okay too!  so here is what the bookshelf brought for june:   how to behave in a crowd by camille bordas the good:  in some ways the protagonist reminded me of other characters that i have read about before like eleanor oliphant.  i… Read more »

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first of all, we are going to go ahead and ignore the fact that i’ve been MIA for months and just jump back into things!  secondly, i’m going to jam a few months of books into this post, BUT the good (or bad) news is that i haven’t read much so it shouldn’t take that long.  this winter/spring i took the last of my librarianship courses and so i guess i was just distracted by that and didn’t have a… Read more »

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when i’m on holidays i have such good intentions.  it seems like it will be soooo easy to work blogging into my schedule and like i will keep up with it no problemo.  and then work.  and life.  and i’m terrible at blogging.  AGAIN.  so here i am, posting my first book post of 2019 and i’m already behind schedule! HA!  anyway, here is what i was reading in jan and feb: the incendiaries by r.o. kwon i must admit… Read more »

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i think i mentioned that i plan to read 52 books again this year.  BUT, in order to step up my game a bit, i’ve decided to create a ‘bucket list for books’.  so among the 52 books i will read this year, i will try to check off the things on this list to sort of broaden my reading horizons.  i spent some time browsing and compiling and brainstorming and i came up with the following list:   if… Read more »

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actually. i think that i will start with what i loved. and then i will post a complete list of what i read this year. BUT FIRST, i have to say that i am so proud of the fact that i reached my reading goal for this year! i wanted to read 52 books and i think that i ended up with a total of 53. and yes, some of them were young adult or middle grades books, but i… Read more »

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GUYS!!!!  I DID IT!!!  i met my reading goal for this year!!  i’m so excited that i actually accomplished it!  and i will do another post to talk about how my reading went this year and what my faves of the year were…but for now, here is what december looked like:   puddin’ by julie murphy after reading “dumplin’” by this author, i knew that i wanted to read the second book.  this book is written from a different character’s… Read more »

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the roanoke girls by amy engel. i have been wanting to read this book for a while because i saw it on lots of recommended lists and it certainly didn’t disappoint.  my friend suhaila (who has reaaaalllllly good taste in books) loaned it to me and she was so right in describing it as a page turner!  it’s a mystery for sure, with a bit of darkness and underlying…strangeness…but i really enjoyed it.  it’s about two girls (and their family)… Read more »

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in an effort to catch up and get back on the blogging train, here i am (SECOND time this week!) with another book post!  i am very happy to say that i am on track for accomplishing my 2018 reading goals and i will work to make sure that i keep it up for the next two months!!  so here is that october brought to the book shelf: side effects may vary by julie murphy if you recall, i read… Read more »

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sooo….i’m just going to leave this here and pretend that it’s not november as i post about what i read in august and september!!  thanks for playing along! the good news is, i read some REALLY AWESOME stuff those months and i have been excited to share it with you…which doesn’t explain why it’s taken me so long to do so, but here we are!  what can i say?!  anyway, here is what august and september’s reads looked like: el… Read more »

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well, this month was better!  i managed to get back on track and read 4 books, all while doing my teacher librarian part 2 course!  WOOP!  i read some goodies this month, and i’m even going to share them with you BEFORE the end of july!!  another WOOP!  here they are:   Educated by Tara Westover this one was so intense.  i don’t really know how else to describe it, but i loved it.  it is a memoir of her… Read more »

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