In My Mailbox is a weekly meme, hosted by The Story Siren, in which bloggers share books they’ve acquired in the mail / at the library / from a bookstore. I’m in the middle of moving and, therefore, trying not to acquire more books at the moment. So naturally, several new books came into my …
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BBAW: Forgotten Treasure
Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week topic is Forgotten Treasures: Sure we’ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it’s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction. This is your chance to tell the community why they should consider reading this …
BBAW: Unexpected Treasure
Today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week topic is Unexpected Treasures: We invite you to share with us a book or genre you tried due to the influence of another blogger. What made you cave in to try something new and what was the experience like? I’m not opposed trying any book or genre in theory, but …
Thoughts on “One Amazing Thing” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I first heard about One Amazing Thing, the newest novel from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, earlier this year, a few weeks after it came out. A coworker handed the book to me and said, “Doesn’t this look interesting?” I read the synopsis and agreed, but the book remained at the periphery of my attention until my …
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Thoughts on “The Last Survivors” Trilogy by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Audiobook)
I heard about Susan Beth Pfeffer’s The Last Survivors trilogy — Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, and This World We Live In — from a school librarian who came into the store to buy books for her library. She raved about the audiobooks, which she was listening to in her …
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