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What’s Waiting For Me

I have 2 To-Read Shelves. One is specifically for YA titles, the other is, well, everything else. You can see them in the pictures on the right. They are basically overflowing right now. It’s hard for me to turn down cheap titles, and darn that St Vinnie’s and their 1/2 price book sales, oh and […]

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Mistaken Launch

I am not really the “new book” kind of person. Usually I am patient enough to wait to check it out from the library or adopt it in the wild at a garage sale or thrift store. (Just this week I bought Catching Fire and Mockingjay for 25 cents each at a thrift store.) If […]

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American Agri-Women Book Chat

This year I helped started a new book club for American Agri-Women a group of women from across the country in farming, ranching, forestry and agri-business. Our website states: American Agri-Women is the nation’s largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women with over fifty state, commodity and agribusiness affiliate organizations throughout the country. It […]

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2012 Overview and Book of the Year

This was the year of the disappointing sequels. As I quoted on my review of Lady of Avalon, “As one other reviewer said on Goodreads, ‘I learned from this book that one shouldn’t try to milk a successful concept beyond its possibilities.’ Enough said.” So first it was Lady of Avalon, then it was Mossflower […]