Tag: reading
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Book Review: Dunamys: Foreign by Carlos G. Moreno
This is a series that I began out of order. I meant to get to this book shortly after reading book two… alas, my time management skills are terrible. But the wait was worth it!…
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Book Review: Terms and Traditions by Morgan Taylor Giesbrecht
I’ve been on the hunt for more sweet romance books. I saw this one recommended on Instagram and/or YouTube and thought it sounded like a nice, cozy Christmas read…
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Book Review: Food for Thought by Alton Brown
Growing up, Good Eats was my favorite Food Network show. I remembered enjoying Alton Brown’s approach to teaching about food and food science (to this day, I cannot pick up a bag of sliced bread without thinking about him squishing the bag to show how much air is in there)…
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Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
Despite having grown up interested in the Great Depression and World War II eras, I never did much research on Franklin Roosevelt as a person. I came across this book secondhand around the time I read Becoming Madam Secretary (a fictionalized account of Frances Perkins’ life), and I thought it would be fascinating to read about FDR…
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Book Review: A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn
I chose this book as my Book of the Month pick last December but never got around to it. I’ve been looking forward to picking it up all year. At first, I felt like the wait was worth it, but approaching the second half of the book, I started to retreat…
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Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borrison
I will never grow tired of A Christmas Carol retellings. I don’t know if I would necessarily consider Good Spirits a complete retelling given the major shift in dynamics, but the concept is there, and it feels fresh…
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Book Review: If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia
I simply could not pass this book by when I heard that it’s a romcom set in the 90s. Better yet, it’s set in the 90s at a New England bed and breakfast during the fall. I picked the book up around Thanksgiving, which is always the time of year I feel myself craving some…
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Book Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
I’ve had my eye on this book for a long time because I thought the plot sounded super intriguing. I was intimidated by the length, but once I was actually reading, it went by quickly…
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Book Review: Twenty-Six Seconds by Alexandra Zapruder
It was interesting to hear about the history of the Zapruder film from the perspective of Abraham Zapruder’s granddaughter. Sad as I am to admit this, the moral questions surrounding the film never occurred to me. Who has the right to own this? Who has the right to watch it? This book discusses questions like…
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Book Review: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borrison
This has been one of my most anticipated reads of 2025. For the past couple of years, I’ve gone back and forth about wanting to pick it up because I loved the cover, but I had other Christmas-themed books I’d been saving to read. After reading my first B.K. Borrison book earlier this year, I…