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I’ve been doing these on Instagram for a while. I highlight one of our vintage posts. However, I can only fit so much information in an Instagram post, so I decided to start putting the information on my blog and just my favorite parts on the Instagram post. Our Copies are: Don Quixote De La… Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: Don Quixote

Over on Instagram @thrifybookworm started an awesome stack for a cause challenge. She will donate $1 to THON for every stack that tags her and uses #stackforthekids while spelling out ‘for the kids’. Two other people have joined her, so now three people are donated $1 for each stack. That’s $3 per stack and up… Continue reading For the Kids Stack Challenge

Goodreads (Blurb): An #ownvoices contemporary YA set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow,… Continue reading Book Review: Furia

Blurb (Goodread): A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches,… Continue reading Book Review: A Discovery of Witches

Blurb (Goodreads): David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his… Continue reading Book Review: David Copperfield

Blurb (Goodreads): IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the… Continue reading Book Review: Ready Player One

Blurb from Goodreads: When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together and care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors tell Liam not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Daily he sits… Continue reading Book Review: Angel Falls

Blurb (Goodreads): Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix up… Continue reading Book Review: Anxious People

Genre: Contemporary Publication Information: November 3, 2020 by Simon & Schuster, 368 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. Thieving allows Ivy… Continue reading Book Review: White Ivy

Genre: Adult Fiction, Contemporary Publication Info: Sept, 2010 by Little Brown, 321 pages Blurb (Goodreads): To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world…. Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack,… Continue reading Flashback Friday: Room