Tag: book-reviews
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March 2026 Reading Recap
Have I been good about writing on this blog? I have not. Is it because I’ve been so busy reading? Only slightly… March 2026 is over, we are a quarter of the way through 2026, and according to Goodreads, I am approximately 25% of the way through my goal of reading 250 books this year.…
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The “Big Ole Books” Mini Challenge
I love a challenge–a little goal that gives me structure and guidelines within a hobby, like reading, that can seem endless and boundless. At the end of 2025, I finally read Fourth Wing, flying through it pretty quickly. As I looked at my Storygraph statistics for the end of the year, I also noted that…
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Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief
I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…
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