Tag Archives: books

Top 10 Books on my Spring TBR List

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Gail

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. 1. The Dead in their Vaulted … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Memoirs/Autobiographies

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Gail

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. 1) A Girl Named Zippy by … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Popular Authors I have NOT Read

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Gail

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. Working in a library means … Continue reading →

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My Top Ten Book Quotes

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Gail

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. 1. “Despite his money and his … Continue reading →

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Austen for Infants

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Gail

A lovely serendipitous find–we are short-staffed here at the library so I was out in the stacks shelving and came upon this marvel! Pride & Prejudice in a board book! Sweetly sums up the entire story in a dozen pages, … Continue reading →

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Top 10 (5-Eacher): Why I love being a Reader/Blogger

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Gail

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. Why I love being a … Continue reading →

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My Top 10 Tear-jerker Reads

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Gail

  Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. If you want to play along, post a link on their site to your blog post and then post a link to them from your blog. 1. The Shoemaker’s Wife … Continue reading →

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2013 Book List

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Gail

The Boy with a Hat asked, “How many books have you read this year?” and it got me thinking… My number is 36 and a half. The half is Anna Karenina, probably my only title that (my son-in-law) would classify as Literature, and … Continue reading →

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Gorey Hero

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Gail

I love the work of Edward Gorey, and recently came across a book of his that I hadn’t previously seen: Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert and The Deadly Blotter. It inspired me to try my hand at an alphabet story. … Continue reading →

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Recent Bits of synchronicity

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Gail

I received an email out of the blue from my cousin, whom I hadn’t heard from in months, with the cryptic: “A book I loved! If you haven’t read it- “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes At the library the next morning, I … Continue reading →

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