Category: Book Reviews
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Picture This! Why Everyone Should Read Picture Books
I have been waiting all year for November because it is National Picture Book Month. While I love all levels of children’s books (see my previous posts about the Enola Holmes mysteries and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles), I always get the most excited about picture books. Yep. Picture books. Big books with few words. Meant…
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Seeking Awe
Have you noticed lately that people aren’t okay? Maybe you’re raising your hand and saying, “Me! That’s me! I’m most definitely not okay.” I hear you. In most places there’s a palpable undercurrent of unrest, irritability, depression, anxiety, mistrust, divisiveness, and grief, among many other equally unsettling things. The reasons for our current state of…
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Wine & Words: Bovary, Beaujolais, and Imperial Russia?
The books that are catching my attention recently have not been that of best sellers, nor of romance, or any nonfiction. The novels that are fulfilling my needs and feeding my desires are the classics. Classic literature is a funny genre, because is it a really a genre? Or a grouping of novels that people…
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Children’s Books I Love: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Magical, marvelous, and laugh-out-loud funny, the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede captured my heart on the very first page of the first book. There are four books in the Enchanted Chronicles series: Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons. The first three follow the adventures of Princess…
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Wine and Words: Funky, Fizzy & Fun
Sip back and relax while we journey through tempestuous tales of wacky wines and nefarious novels. Now, not all the books discussed will be nefarious, nor all wine will be wacky, but they all will be tempting. My name is Shannon B., a.k.a The Shan. I work in our IT department. I have a background…
The Library Vault 