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June Rewind

    What are days even anymore? Let’s do this I suppose.                                     TOTAL COUNT: 24, 1 Not Shown [Ready one to the spawn this month, Glory of Unicorns]   BLM Posts from Book Bloggers [These are only […]

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The City Among the Stars – Blog Tour

      GoodReads: First English translation of the celebrated Golden Age Science Fiction Classic. “This stunning classic stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein. No devotee of great sf should miss The City of the Stars.” – New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear Tankar […]

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Mini-Review Day!

    GoodReads: When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert’s directionless crisis there […]

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Sense & Sensibility Review

    GoodReads: Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father’s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their […]

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One Year Blogiversary & INTL. Giveaway

  Guess what January 3rd was? My Blogiversary Guess who had no clue until I looked it up on January 3rd? This girl. So, I did a Twitter poll, and a few people did it, so it’s been decided that today I’ll do my blogiversary post and celebrate by… Giving you all a tour of […]

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My Great Reads of 2019

  So these are books I read, in general, this year, they may have come out this year, they may have come out before, but, I wanted to just give you all a bit of a highlights reel of books I didn’t get to include on the other lists whether because they didn’t fit the […]

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The Penelopiad Review

    GoodReads: Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty […]

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The Boy Next Story Blog Tour

  Synopsis: The second book in a series where your favorite literary characters come to life, inspired by the timeless classic, Little Women! There’s no one better than the boy next door. At least not according to Aurora Campbell, fourteen, who has been in love with Tobias May since their very firstsandbox kiss. The problem […]

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Charity Shop Finds!

Hey all It’s Sunday, I’m picking my daughter up from her Brownies trip and yesterday we had an unexpected charity shop spree. We went to one but it was just choc-full of amazing books. So. We did it. That was our adventurous thing to do while the daughter is away, buy books. Also, I forgot […]

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Charity Shop Finds!

It’s time for another Charity Shop Fiiiiiinds! I know it probably seems like these are weekly, the truth of the matter is that it probably is a regular occurrence for us, but, when you have a family of three and are trying to save but still want to be able to go out and not […]