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Christmas Reading/ White Christmas: The Story of an American Song by Jody Rosen
Every year I try to read something new that is related to Christmas, about Christmas or set during Christmas. This year, I wasn’t tempted by any of the Christmas fiction available at my library so I did a quick search in the catalog for nonfiction Christmas-y books and this title jumped out at me. I…
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On My Holds List
There is a bit of a slump in December in the publishing world, but January will see the arrival of some exciting books that I am eagerly awaiting. I’m finding that December is a good month for reading classics or old favorites, but once January comes I will jump on the contemporary bandwagon and start…
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Christmas Book Tree
Last weekend I had planned on going to my local garden store to buy a little tabletop Christmas tree, but I was feeling under the weather – so instead, on Sunday, I got inspired and constructed my own Christmas tree made from books. Several friends and family members have shared pictures of book trees with…
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Mini Thoughts on Recent Suspense Reads
During my recent flirtation with suspense novels I finished these three very different books. Here are my mini thoughts: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon – This dual narrative novel has one part set in modern day and the other storyline set in the early 20th century. A young women returns home to find her…
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Cover Collection: The Warden
1. Penguin English Library // 2. Penguin Classics // 3. Oxford World’s Classics 4. Vintage Classics // 5. Dover Thrift Editions // 6. Modern Library One of my reading goals for 2013 was to read more Trollope because I so enjoyed The Warden when I read it last year. I did make a good start…
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Reading Notes
Over the past two weeks I fell into an obsession with suspense novels. I finished Under My Skin by Sabine Durrant and Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I started novels by Sophie Hannah, S.J. Bolton, Laura Lippman and Koethi Zan and checked out others by Megan Abbott and Chevy Stevens, Though I’ve always liked suspense…
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Fall Spin
Another season, another Classics Club Spin. I’ve really enjoyed the two books that were chosen for me in the spring and summer (Revolutionary Road and Mrs. Dalloway) so I am going to take a chance again. I’ve revamped my list, but I am still too much of a coward to include any of the big…
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More of the Story
I apologize that my last post was a bit abrupt – let me tell you the rest of the story. At the beginning of October I moved into a new position at work. I’d been a youth services librarian for four years and, though I enjoyed it, it was not my passion. When a vacancy…
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I’m Not Sure
When or if I will be returning to Gudrun’s Tights. I post a lot about books on Twitter, though, so if you’re interested in what I’m reading you can follow me @anbolynp. The 140 character limit seems to suit my book thoughts better than the blog format right now. I hope you’re having a gorgeous…
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Picture + Quote
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.” -Hilary Mantel from Wolf Hall
A Certain Fondness 