Notes on Books & Life
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, as set forth by the crew at The Broke and the Bookish, is “all-time favorite authors.” Since I have, until very recently, been a book fan more than an author fan — meaning I tended not to develop loyalties to particular authors, but to specific books instead — this prompt …
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, as set forth by the crew at The Broke and the Bookish, is “inspiring quotes from books.” I love this prompt! I keep a notebook of handwritten quotes from books I read, and it was so much fun to go through it to find some quotes for this post. After considering …
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, as set forth by the crew at The Broke and the Bookish, is “characters you’d like to check in with” — as in the book or series is over, but you’d like to know what they’re up to. Such a fun topic! Be warned, though: since we’re talking about …
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Today, in my first post of 2015 — first in a good five months, actually — I’d like to tell a bit of a story. A Tale of Three Blogs Erin Reads was the very first blog I started, way back in 2008. I mean, I’d done the LiveJournal thing and all, but this was …
When I started Erin Reads back in 2008, I decided not to incorporate a rating system. As I continued to blog, I kept revisiting the question, and each time I chose to keep the site rating-free. I had my reasons. As I wrote back in 2011: For me, ratings are a way to remember my …
