Category: Bookish Musings
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It’s Okay to Forget: 10 Books I Love but Remember Very Little About!
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl and this week’s topic is Books I Really Liked but Can’t Remember Anything/Much About. In an ideal world, I would remember every last detail of every single book I’ve ever read. It is not an ideal world. I’ve read lots of…
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A Brief Hiatus for High Shelf Esteem
This is just a quick post to let you all know that I will not be publishing any new content for the next 2 or 3 weeks. I’ve been out of work on medical leave for almost 2 months now, but will be heading back relatively soon. I need to take my remaining time off…
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No New Books for a Year!: The Back To My Bookshelf Challenge
I absolutely love my personal library and I like keeping it in tip top order. However, this has become more and more difficult with the excessive number of books I’ve acquired since my amazing husband finished building the library three years ago. In an effort to do some organization and cleaning for the New Year,…
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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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10 Books You’ll Want To Read Based on Their Intriguing Super Fun Long Titles
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week’s topic is Top 10 Unique Book Titles. This post is my variation on the theme. It can’t be easy for an author to decide on the title of his or her book. How can you encapsulate the…
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Books in the Nude…SFW, I Promise 🙂
Don’t worry — this post is safe for work! What I mean by “books in the nude” is simply hardback books without their dust jackets on. I process a lot of children’s picture books at work (barcoding, labeling, covering, etc.), and in doing so, I see a lot of fun covers under the dust jacket….
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10 New Bookish Vocabulary Words To Use Today
I recently I read over my blog posts and noticed that I use a lot of the same turns of phrase and vocabulary. To remedy this and liven up my writing, I actively searched for new and interesting words relating to the literary world. Did I use Websters’s? Nope! Did I use www.dictionary.com? Negative! I…
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The “Best” Age To Read a Book
If you read my August “What I’ve Been Reading” post, you’ll know that I recently read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and truly enjoyed it. However, you’ll also know that I felt like I would have loved it exponentially more if I’d read it earlier in my life. I’d heard over and…
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10 Best Teachers in Children’s Literature
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week’s topic is Back To School Freebie: anything “back to school” related. Summer break is coming to an end, and while I will miss the time off, I’m also excited to be back in the library with my kiddos. I hope…
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A Guide To Finding Cheap Books for Beach & Poolside Reading
It’s beach and pool season, and while I love both locales for reading, I’m always hesitant to bring my Kindle, library books, or pretty hardbacks to either. What if I accidentally get them wet or super sandy?! Recently, I asked a public librarian what she thought about people bringing library books to the beach…