Month: December 2017
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Literary Linking: December 25 – 29
This week’s link topics include: hot chocolate recipes based on fictional characters, sensitivity readers, your personal Dewey Decimal number, and more! The best bookish links the week of December 25 -29 What’s Your Dewey Decimal Number? Dust off your Dewey Decimal knowledge and have fun taking this librarian’s dream of a quiz. It’s fun AND…
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Top 10 Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2018
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week’s topic is the Top 10 Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2018. I read some great books in 2017 (check out my favorites in My Top 10 Favorite Books of 2017 post), but there are a lot of…
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Literary Linking: December 18 – 22
This week’s link topics include: getting rid of library fines, bookshop dogs, books turning 10 in 2018, and more! The best bookish links the week of December 18 – 22 The Case Against Library Fines According To the Head of the New York Public Library As long as people don’t abuse it, I think getting…
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2017 End-of-Year Reading Survey
I came across this survey on the wonderful blog, Never Enough Novels, and thought back to those years in high school when online surveys were THE thing. I loved filling them out, so I thought a reading survey would be right up my alley. Some of the answers will be familiar if you read My…
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Literary Linking: December 11 – 15
This week’s link topics include: literary celebrity lookalikes, bike desks in the library, best sentences of 2017, and more! The best bookish links the week of December 11 – 15 Tell Us Your Favorite Books and We’ll Tell You Your Hogwarts House I usually find online quiz results to be inaccurate, but this one is…
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My Top 10 Favorite Books of 2017
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week’s topic is Top 10 Favorite Books of 2017. Overall, it’s been a pretty good year of reading. Many of my favorite books of 2017 have been mentioned in earlier posts, so I will refrain from sounding like…
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Literary Linking: December 4 – 8
This week’s link topics include: the NPR book concierge, baking like Emily Dickinson, full-cast audiobooks, and more! The best bookish links the week of December 4 – 8: Meet Max, the Cat Who Lost the Library but Won the Internet This article is from last week, but it’s so adorable, I just had to include…
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New Series: Lit Burger – Lit Burger #1 is The Sound and the Curry Burger
I am very late to the game when it comes to loving the stuffing out of the animated show Bob’s Burgers. To make up for taking so long to become a fan, I am creating a new series that ties Bob’s Burgers to the literary world. It is called: Lit Burger! For each episode, there…
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What’s Making Me Happy: Vol. 6
This post is a bit late, but I think I have a pretty good excuse. Earlier this month, I had a brain aneurysm and it’s thrown my regular schedule off quite a bit. In any case, I have SO much to be thankful for and I am just happy to be alive. That said,…
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Literary Linking: November 27 – December 1
This week’s link topics include: free books in Baltimore, Christmas read-alouds, the success of indie bookstores, and more! The best bookish links the week of November 27 – December 1: How Giving Away Free Books Became a Baltimore Institution The day I tried to go to Book Thing for the first time, they’d just had…