The Brilliance of Book Clubs: A Follow-Up to The Merriest Misters

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     Last week, I wrote a review for The Merriest Misters, and I plan on going back to that and amending it after this, but tonight I wanted to write a separate post talking about that book and the wonderful experience that book clubs bring. Namely, different perspectives. On Monday, the romance book club met to discuss The Merriest Misters, and we were joined (via zoom) by the author Timothy Janovsky himself. We had a great conversation and touched on many different things, a lot of them very important, but it especially brought to mind that I read this book […]

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Review: “The Merriest Misters” by Timothy Janovsky

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Title: The Merriest Misters Author: Timothy Janovsky Published: October 2024 Genre: Romance Rating: ★ ★ ★ Brief synopsis: Patrick and Quinn are 6 months into their first year of marriage and already having problems. When they accidentally hit Santa Claus over the head with a frying pan, they have to take on the roles of Santa and his jovial spouse. Will a year in the North Pole help them rekindle their romance and find what’s truly important? Or is it all just a magical holiday that will melt away when real life problems come back into the fold? UPDATE: I […]

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Review: “There is a Door in This Darkness” by Kristin Cashore

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Title: There is a Door in This Darkness Author: Kristin Cashore Published: June 2024 Genre: Magical Realism Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I read There is a Door in This Darkness in August, and have wanted to review it since but kept putting it off for personal reasons. Because honestly… this is the book I needed at the time, as I dealt with my favorite aunt dying from breast cancer, but didn’t want to process too heavily as I was in the thick of that. Well, it’s now been two months since my aunt died, we’ve gone through another […]

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Help! I joined a romance book club?

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You ever do something that’s just… not you? Well, this week, I did. I joined a romance book club. To back up a bit and give you some backstory: I moved in March from Chicago to a small, rural town in Massachusetts. I grew up here, but haven’t lived here since I left for college. I’ve lived in Chicago for 14 years and barely even got home to visit in that time. I had friends growing up, but they’ve all grown up (as did I), got married and had kids (as… didn’t I), and moved away (as did I, until […]

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Current Reads and DNFs – 10/23/2004

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I’ve been deep into Minecraft with friends the past couple of weeks, but I’ve still made some time for reading. And… attempting to read and deciding I really didn’t want to read those books after all! But first, let’s start with the positive! “The Games Gods Play” by Abigail Owen I read The Games Gods Play for my book group’s discussion for October, so it was a quarter of the book each week. I think I need to do a full review on this, because I overall really enjoyed the plot, but I have… complicated thoughts about it. When I […]

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Library Tour

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     I moved in March, and have spent a lot of time working on my library space since then. Before I moved, the room didn’t even have flooring, so I have designed everything from the ground up (with the exception of the fireplace and brick wall). It’s been wonderful being able to make this space truly mine, something I haven’t been able to do in all my years of renting. It is my “happy place”, as the saying goes. As I just brought a lot of my plants inside for the winter, I thought now was the perfect time to […]

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Book Weekend!

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     This weekend was the family “book weekend” —my mother, sister, and I went to a beach house on Cape Cod to sit around reading books and drinking wine all weekend. (This is actually the first time I’ve gone, as I only recently moved back to Massachusetts, but it’s been annual thing for them for years.) I was very much looking forward to this and packed a few of my “currently reading” titles as well as a new one that just came into the library (you never know what you’re in the mood for!), plus a board game called […]

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Welcome!

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     I love books. I grew up reading books, and that led me to a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences. Here you’ll find a collection of formal reviews, informal thoughts, thought-provoking (or just fun!) quotes, and rambling gushes about my favorites. Coupled with my YouTube channel, I hope to keep this updated on a more rolling basis of “here’s what I’m in the middle of and my impressions so far” updates than just formal reviews.     So, what do I like to read? Well… a lot of things! (You don’t study literature and become […]

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