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    Top Ten Tuesday (4/18/23)

    Happy Tuesday my lovelies! It’s been quite the day so far, so this post is up later than I would have preferred, but sometimes that’s just the way it is. I haven’t had time to pre-write posts, but I am hoping to do that this weekend! For now, we make due with what we have. So let’s go! Freebie Day!*My Top Ten Favorite Stationery Shops* If there is one thing that I love at the same level as books, it’s STATIONERY. I have a nice hoard of everything from washi tape, to stamps, to waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many stickers. I journal…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Spring 2023 To-Read List (3/14/23)

    Happy Tuesday to all my reader friends out there! It’s a rainy Tuesday here, and I’m struggling a bit to focus. Weather like this always makes me want to crawl back into bed and read. Work? Work, who. LOL. But I’m powering through and I’m here to share some more bookish goodness with you. So let’s gooooooooooooo! Books On My Spring 2023 To-Read List Garbrielle Zevin – The Storied Life of A.J. FikryThis has been on my to-read list for AGES and I finally just broke down and bought a copy to read. When a book stubbornly sits on my…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022

    Happy Tuesday friends! Here is hoping that your Monday went smoothly, and you’re entering today with an overall good vibe. This is the last week of my current position and so I’m struggling a bit. But next week will smooth things out, and so I’m keeping it positive! Feeling pretty good about how well this blog is going too. But let’s get down to the prompt for today, shall we? Time to talk about some books! New-To-Me Authors in 2022 Anna E. Collins – Love At First SpiteI started off the year with a brand-new-to-me author, by way of Love…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Book Quotes That Inspire Me

    Happy Tuesday friends! Can you believe that it has been over a year since I last participated in one of these? Honestly it’s testament to how different last year was from every other year before that. Which, I’m sure we can all attest to. Moving out of that fog, and into a much better headspace, has been so freeing. The fact that I’m back to reading and blogging regularly is just a happy side effect, but I am so very pleased. I feel like I got a piece of myself back. Anyway, on to the prompt shall we? Top Ten…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Rainy Day Reads

    Happy Tuesday lovely people! We worked our butts off this weekend, doing all of the Spring chores that it’s been too windy or rainy to do until now. The front of our house now sports adorable handmade window boxes, and a potting ledge! We even re-mulched the front planters and re-screened our windows. Hahaha. Ah, home ownership. It’s a thing. Now let’s get to the prompt. Top Ten Rainy Day Reads This is hilariously appropriate because, despite the weather not telling us, it’s totally sprinkling outside. What are you gonna do? Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen This is actually…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Audio Books Narrators I Adore

    Good morning lovely people! Can you believe that it’s almost April? I feel like that shocked emoji would fit just perfectly here, because March absolutely flew by. It’s been a pretty great year of reading so far though, so I can’t complain at all. Now, let me stop rambling and let’s get to today’s Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Audio Book Narrators This was a hard one, and so these are in no particular order. It would be way too hard on my poor little reader brain to do that, and I love them all so much! — Kathleen Gati…

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    Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read In 2018 But Didn’t Get To

    Good morning ladies and gents! As you can see, I’m getting in the groove of posting more often, and allowing myself more fun posts on here. Not that writing reviews isn’t fun, but trust me sometimes it’s nice to stop thinking of everything so critically and just post. So let’s do this Top Ten Tuesday thing! Books I Meant To Read In 2018 But Didn’t Get To Ah, this list is so long. Here’s the top ten, as far as I can remember them right now! 1. Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson I received a finished copy of this book early in…