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Books I Love – What I Read in March 2024
I am returning to this book blog after a long period of changes and a shuffling of life priorities. I have found myself unexpectedly homeschooling one of my kids and working on my husband’s business – it’s been a big year. It has also meant leaving behind my work in libraries and feeling a little…
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The Best July 2023 Reading Recommendations
What I Loved Reading this Month I’ve started off the second half of 2023 with so many great books to read, I can hardly wait to get into them all. At one stage this month I was so engrossed in my audiobook Yellowface, but also couldn’t get enough of reading the hard copy of Dirty…
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2023 Fiction TBR July-December
Like many readers, I have been consulting my To-Be-Read list to decide what I want to read over the coming months. I decided to divide it into Fiction, Non-Fiction and Young Adult as these are my favourite types of reading and I want to make sure I read something from every area. This week I’m…
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Falling in Love with Libraries All Over Again
How could I have forgotten just how wonderful libraries are? You know when you’ve loved something for a long time and you don’t doubt that you love it but if you’re honest, you’ve probably taken it a bit for granted? Well that was me about libraries. And I work in a library! However, I was…
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The Best Parenting Book I’ve Ever Read
And no, I’m not even exaggerating. I’ve read a lot of parenting books and this one knocks the rest out of the park. Not that the others are bad – I have included some other excellent titles here in this article – but this one spoke to me like nothing else. It gave me some…
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The Best Books I’ve Read in 2023 (so far)
Where to begin?! I have been so lucky to come across many truly excellent books this year and I have compiled them here as The Best Books I’ve Read in 2023. We are only in June so there is still half a year of reading to go! The books listed here would come loosely under…
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Five things I LOVED about the book The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And one thing I didn’t like at all.
The best book of all time, if it weren’t for one little flaw.
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Six Books About Life Do-Overs (with a Bit of Time Travel)
Pick up one of these books if you’ve ever wondered how making different choices might have changed everything in your life I once read in Susan Jeffer’s book Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway that there is no such thing as a wrong decision. I love this bold approach to living but as someone…
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