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Cover Collection: To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Warner Books // 2. Arrow Books // 3. Vintage Classics 4. HarperCollins // 5. William Heinemann // 6. HarperPerennial Yesterday I saw To Kill a Mockingbird at the theater and it was sublime. It was just as wonderful as I’d remembered and Gregory Peck is magnificent as Atticus Finch. I haven’t cried so much…
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A Little Bit About Me through The Liebster Award
The lovely Florence at Miss Darcy’s Library has nominated me for the Liebster Award. What is the Liebster Award? This is from Florence: “From what I can find out, the Liebster Award (from the German, meaning “dearest” or “beloved”) is granted by fellow bloggers to new blogs with fewer than 200 followers and deserving of…
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Welcome, Beauties!
Hello, all! How has your week been? I felt more stressed than usual this week, but today I am off from work and looking forward to my four day weekend. I have lots of reading planned as I realized that I have to read 11 more books by January 1 if I want to reach…
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Mini Book Thoughts
Since I can’t seem to gather enough thoughts together these days to write about books in any lengthy fashion, I am going to give you three brief thoughts on books I’ve finished lately: A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark -Set in 1950’s Kensington, this darkly humorous novel is told in the first…
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Hope Returning
The weekend’s weather was stunningly beautiful, full of promise for open windows, walks in the breeze and warmer blankets on the bed. These are the days when being outdoors is a much missed treat, one we haven’t been able to experience comfortably since March. And thankfully, it seems my reading desire is returning just when…
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4 Outstanding…Spooky Books
1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King – I read Pet Sematary one fall when I was living in a small town in Arkansas. My apartment was at the bottom of a hill next to a dense and dark forest. I lived alone and stayed up late into the night reading about the Creed family…
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Fall In
Fall in Phoenix is so far pretty much the same as summer in Phoenix. It is still excessively hot and we are all still wearing shorts and flip-flops (long sleeves and sweaters haven’t left the back of the closet). But… there are signs that change is on the threshold. Small clumps of brown leaves skittering…
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Cover Collection: O Pioneers!
1. Oxford World’s Classics // 2. Penguin Classics // 3. Vintage Classics 4. Houghton Mifflin // 5. Signet Classics // 6. Virago Modern Classics I don’t have much to write about lately, so I am throwing out another cover collection for your enjoyment. I really like all of these covers, but I think my favorite…
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A Writing Block & A Reading Slump
Hello, friends! I am in the midst of a massive writing block at the moment. I can’t seem to write about a book to save my life. I have a few books I want to tell you about, but every time I sit down to post about them my little brain just freezes right up.…
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Most of you probably know that Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre. It tells the story of Bertha Mason, Rochester’s mad wife in the attic, and her childhood, family and how she came to be married to Mr. Edward Rochester in Jamaica. Jean Rhys wrote the novel in the 60’s as she…
A Certain Fondness 