Was it just me or did July race by? (Whoa, just sounded like an old person there, accidentally). Anyway, Round 2! Time to tell me what to read in August. A few people asked last time how I picked the winner; I put the number of comments in a random integer generator and then whatever number between 1 and 32…
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
8 of 10: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was just what I like in a book – history, interesting characters, a little mystery, and some romance. For all that, though, it is at its heart, a quiet book. I won’t lie, people. Catching Fire sort of ruined all other books for me temporarily. What can possibly compare?…
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Festival!
This fall there will be the Ninth Annual National Book Festival in DC. Laura Bush started it up, with the help of the Library of Congress, while George Bush was president, modeling it on the very successful Texas Book Festival she started in Austin when GWB was governor here (have I mentioned she and I are both alumni of the…
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Late Summer Reading
Texas has these book lists that a group of librarians decide on each year. And there are a lot of them (truly, everything is bigger in Texas): they have the 2×2 list for ages 2 to grade 2, the Bluebonnet list for 3-6 graders, the Lone Star list is for 6-8 graders, and the TAYSHAS list is for high school…
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Thursday
Today I can’t believe: I have a masters degree I’m moving to Boston in just over three weeks it is so stressful to decide what stuff to leave and what to take when we move the cat ran away from the house we are staying at (they said it was okay) anything is worth reading after Catching Fire I’m going…
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