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Top Ten Tuesday #40: Best Female Character Names

May 22, 2018: Best Character Names (make this as narrow/broad as you’d like) I really enjoyed creating this list and thinking up all the great feminine characters who I’ve enjoyed over the years and then finding art to go along with all of them. The characters who haven’t been on the big screen yet were a […]

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The Great American Read

THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series on PBS that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey).  It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these […]

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April 2018 Book Pick Ups

It was a pretty good month for book pick-ups. Half-Off sale at our favorite thrift store never hurts things and neither does the fact that an author I reviewed an ARC for recently liked my review so much that he sent me copies of the rest of his books. For Kindle: The Air Raid Killer […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #39: Books That Surprised Me

April 24, 2018: Books That Surprised Me (in a good or bad way) I wasn’t really feeling this week’s topic, “Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles”, so I decided to go back and finish a list I started last month. These are listed in the order I thought them up, and no other. Books […]