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Book Review: The Well-Read Life by Marcie Stokman & Colleen Hutt
When life gets busy, reading tends to be one of the first things people give up. ‘Well-Read Mom’ founders Marcie Stokman and Colleen Hutt discuss the importance of reading and why it should be among our top priorities. What’s more, they discuss the impact of taking the time to read a good book (namely literature)…
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Book Review: The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho & Deb JJ Lee
Yunho and Myunghee are kids living in North Korea. Every day is a fight for survival, be it avoiding soldiers, bartering and scavenging for food, etc. They know their only hope for their futures is to sneak across the border to China, but even there they run the risk of being captured…
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Book Review: Dreamover by Dani Diaz
It’s the beginning of summer vacation and before the start of high school. Amber, Nico, and their friends have a strong friend group, but when Amber and Nico confess their feelings for one another, they notice a new distance between them and their friends…
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Book Review: The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
I’ve enjoyed previous books by Laura Dave such as The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes so I was excited to see another book from this author. I’d categorize this one somewhere between the two I mentioned — part mystery, part family-oriented drama…
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Book Review: Middletide by Sarah Crouch
I see a lot of people comparing this book to Where the Crawdads Sing. Though I’ve been curious about that book, I’ve yet to read it. I was kind of glad about this as I didn’t have a comparison in mind…
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Book Review: Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Truthfully, the cover of this book had me thinking this was going to be some kind of beach-read thriller (is there such a thing?). I wasn’t sure what to expect but I’m almost always willing to give a thriller a try. I’m glad my first impression of the book was wrong!…
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Book Review: The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman
Every time I think I’ve covered reading every area possible of WWII, I’m proven wrong. Such was the case with The Codebreaker’s Secret and I am thrilled!…