tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39793113401410684192024-02-20T23:21:58.369-05:00Fashion & FictionA girl, her clothes and a whole lot of booksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-5488044423016503632019-10-18T00:00:00.000-04:002019-10-18T00:00:09.889-04:00Review: The Candy Cane Caper <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162972601X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=162972601X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=e53ccbc82bfdc55bd31123de16958001" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=162972601X&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="267" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"The theft of a friend’s priceless, family-legacy Christmas ornaments brings amateur detective and culinary expert, Sadie Hoffmiller, back on the case in a new standalone cozy mystery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"In the latest chapter to the Culinary Mystery series, amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller continues combining her sleuthing with her cooking and baking to connect with people and gain information she might otherwise not have access to. Moreover, now that Sadie is married to Detective Pete Cunningham, she has a street-savvy husband to test out her crime-solving theories.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"With Christmas approaching, Sadie is preparing for a large blended-family gathering including many new grandchildren--in their home in Fort Collins, Colorado. Even with the festive chaos, Sadie drops everything when word gets out that her friend, Mary, is the victim of a holiday robbery. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"At ninety-four years old, and nearly blind, Mary knows this is may be her last Christmas and the last year to enjoy her family heirloom Christmas tree ornaments. She wants just one more holiday to display her ornaments and following Christmas Eve Mass, she’ll pass them on to her great-granddaughter, Joy. Though priceless to the family, the collection has been valued at $40,000, and the Christmas tree in the care facility has never looked so good. But before the ornaments can be retrieved by Mary, eleven of the most expensive ornaments are stolen. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"A holiday Christmas caper might be new to Sadie, but she’s ready to mix in her seasoned crime-solving skills with a pinch of new holiday recipes."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I learned something about myself while reviewing this book, that has the most adorable cover, by the way. I can read most books out of season, but I cannot read Christmas books out of season. I tried, getting about 50 pages in to <i>The Candy Cane Caper</i>, but ultimately put it down because I knew I would simply enjoy it more reading it in December rather than October. That being said, I am looking forward to picking it back up nearer to Christmas. I have never read any of Kilpack's culinary mysteries, but I am familiar with her other books and have enjoyed them, so I am hopeful I will enjoy this one as well. In case you are interested, here is my favorite Kilpack book.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Price: $15.99 on Amazon<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162972601X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=162972601X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=158fd58461d5a87fdbb155aef16b3661" target="_blank">The Candy Cane Caper (Cozy Culinary Mystery)</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Fashion & Fiction was provided with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.</i></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-39609326402141327092019-09-10T00:00:00.000-04:002019-09-10T00:00:03.990-04:00Review: Six Ingredient Meals with Six Sisters' Stuff<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1629725994/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1629725994&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=3a6745f0989becedd9964d1b0850f297" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=1629725994&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="400" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Six Sisters Stuff is one of the most popular blogs for quick and easy cooking and entertaining at home for families. In their eighth cookbook, they tackle how to master meals for any cook with any skill level with more than 100 easy recipes made with incredible flavor combinations from just six ingredients or less.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"From beginning cooks learning the basics to busy parents looking to save time in the kitchen, this cookbook is loaded with entrees, side dishes, and desserts. Whether its a one-pot wings dish or a no-bake peanut butter bar this cookbook is a fool-proof solution to meal planning and features kid-friendly chapters such as Kid Favorites and Kids Can Cook.""</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px;">I have to admit, when I received <i>Six Ingredient Meals with Six Sisters' Stuff</i> in the mail, I may have squealed. I love cookbooks. I cannot get enough of them. And I could not be happier to add Six Ingredient Meals to my collection of cookbooks. Here is what I love about this particular cookbook. It is beautiful. </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It has full page photographs of every single recipe. (Anyone else dislike cookbooks with no photos?!) When opened to a recipe, it lays open flat on my kitchen counter without the need to crack the spine. (It's the little things, I tell you!) It has a great index. (Again, the little things!) And the recipes. They are truly simple and so many look and sound terrific. I am particularly drawn to the side dishes, which frankly I need more of in my personal collection. I cannot wait to try the maple-roasted butternut squash, the twice-baked bacon-and-chive sweet potatoes, the watermelon feta salad and the pomegranate salsa. Now, excuse me while I get into the kitchen and start cooking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Price: $15.32 on Amazon<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1629725994/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1629725994&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=2bc55e2f379c69171738da4decb83498" target="_blank">Six Ingredient Meals With Six Sisters' Stuff</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-27369399930856405272018-12-31T23:30:00.000-05:002018-12-31T23:30:01.917-05:00Favorite Books of 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">I am excited to share my favorite books of 2018 with you. These are the books </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; text-align: center;">I loved</b><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">. These are the books </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; text-align: center;">I couldn't put down</b><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">. These are the books </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; text-align: center;">I am still thinking about today</b><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">. Let's get to them, in no particular order. (I should note, these are my favorite books I read this year. They were not necessarily published this year.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842209/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375842209&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=0e988e6e2cd74c767cc510d8b7c17496" target="_blank">The Book Thief</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=jamiesfashion-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0375842209" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />by Markus Zusak<br />
5 stars<br />
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World War II historical fiction written from the perspective of death. It was like nothing I had read before. I loved everything about it from its unique narrator to its storyline to its writing. It was beautiful.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385341008/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385341008&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=aa1c0735976595c27cb6fe9f27583d14" target="_blank">The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</a> by Mary Ann Shaffer<br />
5 stars<br />
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World Word II historical fiction told through letters. Though this was a reread for me, I had forgotten the story. I laughed and cried through the entire thing. I loved it. Pretty much the perfect book for me.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393328627/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393328627&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=b28f98f43ef53c8f999ad8dcf4d24e6b" target="_blank">The History of Love</a> by Nicole Krauss<br />
5 stars<br />
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A unique structure, an unreliable narrator, tragedy and hope. It again was like nothing I had read before. I must admit, I had to work for it, but I loved it.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062697714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062697714&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=fc0a16006c37eed74967d0cfa2a7eb5c" target="_blank">Marilla of Green Gables</a> by Sarah McCoy<br />
5 stars</div>
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Finally, Marilla's story. It was done so, so well. I fell in love with Marilla and Matthew and Green Gables all over again. This one could have been so disappointing, but it absolutely wasn't it. I thought it was perfect.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-64906895932848372642018-12-31T22:30:00.000-05:002018-12-31T22:30:08.667-05:002018 Reading Goals - Wrap up<div style="text-align: center;">
My reading goals this year were to...</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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How did I do?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I READ 12 CLASSIC BOOKS</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I READ 12 NONFICTION BOOKS</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I READ 28 BOOKS FROM MY SHELVES</span><br />
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I am really, really happy with how I did.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-64763993047565613492018-12-31T22:00:00.000-05:002018-12-31T22:00:04.851-05:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - Wrap up<div>
One of my reading goals this year was to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I loosely joined in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checked in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I progressed with my goal. Overall, I read 28 books and removed 23 books. Here is how my shelves look today.</div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
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Salt to the Sea</div>
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The Alice Network</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
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Gilead</div>
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A Share in Death</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
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I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Intuitive Eating</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
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Brideshead Revisited</div>
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Whose Body</div>
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Cloud of Witness</div>
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Unnatural Death</div>
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Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (138)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Thorn Birds</strike></span></div>
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
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Jayber Crow</div>
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An Ember in Ashes</div>
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The Once and Future King</div>
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The Wednesday Wars</div>
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The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
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I Capture the Castle</div>
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Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
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Flight of the Sparrow</div>
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The Gilded Years</div>
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Dead Wake</div>
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A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
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Amy Snow</div>
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Hannah Coulter</div>
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The Sea of Tranquility</div>
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
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The Girl in the Castle</div>
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
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The Eyre Affair</div>
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Gift from the Sea</div>
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Poison Study</div>
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Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
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Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
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My Brilliant Friend</div>
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The Year of Living Danishly</div>
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Penderwicks</div>
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Honeymoon Hotel</div>
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The Night Circus</div>
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Code Name Verity</div>
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The Marvels</div>
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Moon Over Manifest</div>
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Enchanted Islands</div>
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At Home in Mitford</div>
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The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
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Into Thin Air</div>
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
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My Life in France</div>
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My Berlin Kitchen</div>
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The Professor and the Madman</div>
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Quartet in Autumn</div>
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The Muse</div>
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A Clearing in the Distance</div>
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Winter Solstice</div>
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Gods in Alabama</div>
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The Historian</div>
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The Winds of War</div>
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Team of Rivals</div>
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One True Loves</div>
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Atonement</div>
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The Tea Rose</div>
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The Night Watch</div>
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Night</div>
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Life After Life</div>
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
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Mindset</div>
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Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
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A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
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Grave Mercy</div>
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Death at La Fenice</div>
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A Study in Charlotte</div>
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A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
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From Doon with Death</div>
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The Coroner's Lunch</div>
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Raven Black</div>
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A Test of Wills</div>
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The Cater Street Hangman</div>
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The Crossing Places</div>
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Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
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The Mangle Street Murders</div>
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The Kitchen House</div>
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First Impressions</div>
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
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Another Day in the Death of America</div>
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The Essex Serpent</div>
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Caroline</div>
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The Other Alcott</div>
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Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
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The Name of the Wind</div>
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Possession</div>
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Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
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Birds of a Feather</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
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Loving Lucianna</div>
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Terms of Endearment</div>
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Three Wishes</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
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The Horse Dancer<br />
The Dark Enquiry</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
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The Austen Escape</div>
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A Fall of Marigolds</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Cousin Rachel</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
<div>
Jane Austen's First Love</div>
<div>
Orphan Train</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
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44 Scotland Street</div>
<div>
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
<div>
The Forgetting Time</div>
<div>
The Sea House</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
<div>
Caleb's Crossing</div>
<div>
For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
<div>
The Moonstone</div>
<div>
The Day the Angels Fell</div>
<div>
Six of Crows </div>
<div>
Rules of Murder</div>
<div>
The Mountain Between Us</div>
<div>
Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
<div>
The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
<div>
The Bean Trees</div>
<div>
The Aviator's Wife</div>
<div>
The Seven Sisters</div>
<div>
Jane of Austin</div>
<div>
Unequal Affections</div>
<div>
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
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A Wilder Rose</div>
<div>
Everything I Never Told You</div>
<div>
The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
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Dark Matter</div>
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The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-10978698285458739712018-12-31T21:30:00.000-05:002018-12-31T21:30:00.583-05:002018 Reading Goals - December update<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">December ended up being an okay month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read no nonfiction books</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read no books from my shelves</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-28828698211432449062018-12-31T21:00:00.000-05:002018-12-31T21:00:03.846-05:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - December update<div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (15)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
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Salt to the Sea</div>
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The Alice Network</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
<div>
Gilead</div>
<div>
A Share in Death</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
<div>
I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Intuitive Eating</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
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Brideshead Revisited</div>
<div>
Whose Body</div>
<div>
Cloud of Witness</div>
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Unnatural Death</div>
<div>
Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (138)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Thorn Birds</strike></span></div>
<div>
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
<div>
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
<div>
Jayber Crow</div>
<div>
An Ember in Ashes</div>
<div>
The Once and Future King</div>
<div>
The Wednesday Wars</div>
<div>
The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
<div>
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
<div>
I Capture the Castle</div>
<div>
Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
<div>
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
<div>
Flight of the Sparrow</div>
<div>
The Gilded Years</div>
<div>
Dead Wake</div>
<div>
A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
<div>
Amy Snow</div>
<div>
Hannah Coulter</div>
<div>
The Sea of Tranquility</div>
<div>
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
<div>
The Girl in the Castle</div>
<div>
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
<div>
The Eyre Affair</div>
<div>
Gift from the Sea</div>
<div>
Poison Study</div>
<div>
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
<div>
Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
<div>
My Brilliant Friend</div>
<div>
The Year of Living Danishly</div>
<div>
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Penderwicks</div>
<div>
Honeymoon Hotel</div>
<div>
The Night Circus</div>
<div>
Code Name Verity</div>
<div>
The Marvels</div>
<div>
Moon Over Manifest</div>
<div>
Enchanted Islands</div>
<div>
At Home in Mitford</div>
<div>
The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
<div>
The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
<div>
Into Thin Air</div>
<div>
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
<div>
My Life in France</div>
<div>
My Berlin Kitchen</div>
<div>
The Professor and the Madman</div>
<div>
Quartet in Autumn</div>
<div>
The Muse</div>
<div>
A Clearing in the Distance</div>
<div>
Winter Solstice</div>
<div>
Gods in Alabama</div>
<div>
The Historian</div>
<div>
The Winds of War</div>
<div>
Team of Rivals</div>
<div>
One True Loves</div>
<div>
Atonement</div>
<div>
The Tea Rose</div>
<div>
The Night Watch</div>
<div>
Night</div>
<div>
Life After Life</div>
<div>
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
<div>
Mindset</div>
<div>
Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
<div>
A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
<div>
Grave Mercy</div>
<div>
Death at La Fenice</div>
<div>
A Study in Charlotte</div>
<div>
A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
<div>
From Doon with Death</div>
<div>
The Coroner's Lunch</div>
<div>
Raven Black</div>
<div>
A Test of Wills</div>
<div>
The Cater Street Hangman</div>
<div>
The Crossing Places</div>
<div>
Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
<div>
The Mangle Street Murders</div>
<div>
The Kitchen House</div>
<div>
First Impressions</div>
<div>
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
<div>
Another Day in the Death of America</div>
<div>
The Essex Serpent</div>
<div>
Caroline</div>
<div>
The Other Alcott</div>
<div>
Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
<div>
The Name of the Wind</div>
<div>
Possession</div>
<div>
Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
<div>
Birds of a Feather</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
<div>
Loving Lucianna</div>
<div>
Terms of Endearment</div>
<div>
Three Wishes</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Horse Dancer<br />
The Dark Enquiry</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Austen Escape</div>
<div>
A Fall of Marigolds</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Cousin Rachel</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
<div>
Jane Austen's First Love</div>
<div>
Orphan Train</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
<div>
44 Scotland Street</div>
<div>
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
<div>
The Forgetting Time</div>
<div>
The Sea House</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
<div>
Caleb's Crossing</div>
<div>
For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
<div>
The Moonstone</div>
<div>
The Day the Angels Fell</div>
<div>
Six of Crows </div>
<div>
Rules of Murder</div>
<div>
The Mountain Between Us</div>
<div>
Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
<div>
The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
<div>
The Bean Trees</div>
<div>
The Aviator's Wife</div>
<div>
The Seven Sisters</div>
<div>
Jane of Austin</div>
<div>
Unequal Affections</div>
<div>
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
<div>
A Wilder Rose</div>
<div>
Everything I Never Told You</div>
<div>
The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
<div>
Dark Matter</div>
<div>
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-31026333202018675392018-12-31T20:30:00.000-05:002018-12-31T20:30:04.819-05:00What I've Been Reading - December 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my quick and personal thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. For specifics about each book, click on the provided book images.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062662996/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062662996&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=3377a3bc21fbae143073d02f5c3116eb" target="_blank">Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery</a> by Jenny Colgan<br />
3 stars</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062662996/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062662996&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=e50f827397f268027987057bcc85c147" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=0062662996&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="265" /></a></div>
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<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=jamiesfashion-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0062662996" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery is the third in Colgan's Little Beach Street Bakery series. I really loved <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LEYI3PK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00LEYI3PK&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=6b36c3c8fbad2c12791919805a4c6738" target="_blank">the first</a> in the series. I found it simple, sweet, quirky and fun. Unfortunately, the second and third books didn't quite live up to the first. However, I still enjoyed them and am glad to have read the entire series.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059035342X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=059035342X&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=22815dc9154c59d803cd4ef7a997797d" target="_blank">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone</a> by J.K. Rowling</div>
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5 stars</div>
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Harry Potter needs no introduction. It has been six years since I read this series for the first time, so I felt it was time for a reread. I think I may have enjoyed this second reading more than the first. It was such a joy. I can't wait to read the rest of the series in the coming year.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062697714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062697714&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=49e8a9465fd7a7bc30b07cba6022902b" target="_blank">Marilla of Green Gables</a> by Sarah McCoy</div>
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5 stars</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062697714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062697714&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=910352efe358a681445bbc4d8395ed76" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=0062697714&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="267" /></a></div>
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I was so excited, yet so nervous to read Marilla of Green Gables. I had nothing to worry about, however. It is wonderful. I absolutely loved it. The story McCoy weaved feels genuine and I believe would be approved my L.M. Montgomery herself. Just beautiful.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345391802/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345391802&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=659b6088aa314f4f36ffce805125b72e" target="_blank">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> by Douglas Adams</div>
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2 stars</div>
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My family recently decided to start a family book club. My husband got the honor of choosing our first book and chose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I must admit, I laughed out loud a few times while reading it, but ultimately, it wasn't for me. I am looking forward, however, to discussing it as a family.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062467255/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062467255&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=80d5dd432754ce97a96fc3f8bd8f9d2f" target="_blank">The Bookshop on the Corner</a> by Jenny Colgan</div>
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4 stars</div>
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Colgan is quickly becoming a favorite author. Her books are simply a lot of fun and The Bookshop on the Corner is no exception. This one combined two of my favorite things -- Books and Scotland. I enjoyed it so much and would be happy if Colgan turned this one into a series.</div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439064872/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0439064872&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=670cdd4c0631af5ca776d2847af23cac" target="_blank">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</a> by J.K. Rowling </div>
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5 stars</div>
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I thought I would return to the rest of this series in the new year, but I couldn't wait. I am so glad I didn't. These are the perfect books to read during the Christmas season. I am enjoying them so, so much this second time through. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-87346806932271702972018-11-30T01:00:00.000-05:002018-11-30T22:29:28.937-05:002018 Reading Goals - November update <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">November was an okay month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>A Little Princess</i></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read no nonfiction books</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read no books from my shelves</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-59652347312395647792018-11-30T00:30:00.000-05:002018-11-30T22:29:17.710-05:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - November update <div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (15)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
<div>
Salt to the Sea</div>
<div>
The Alice Network</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
<div>
Gilead</div>
<div>
A Share in Death</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
<div>
I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Intuitive Eating</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
<div>
Brideshead Revisited</div>
<div>
Whose Body</div>
<div>
Cloud of Witness</div>
<div>
Unnatural Death</div>
<div>
Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (138)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Thorn Birds</strike></span></div>
<div>
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
<div>
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
<div>
Jayber Crow</div>
<div>
An Ember in Ashes</div>
<div>
The Once and Future King</div>
<div>
The Wednesday Wars</div>
<div>
The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
<div>
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
<div>
I Capture the Castle</div>
<div>
Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
<div>
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
<div>
Flight of the Sparrow</div>
<div>
The Gilded Years</div>
<div>
Dead Wake</div>
<div>
A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
<div>
Amy Snow</div>
<div>
Hannah Coulter</div>
<div>
The Sea of Tranquility</div>
<div>
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
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The Girl in the Castle</div>
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
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The Eyre Affair</div>
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Gift from the Sea</div>
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Poison Study</div>
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Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
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Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
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My Brilliant Friend</div>
<div>
The Year of Living Danishly</div>
<div>
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Penderwicks</div>
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Honeymoon Hotel</div>
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The Night Circus</div>
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Code Name Verity</div>
<div>
The Marvels</div>
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Moon Over Manifest</div>
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Enchanted Islands</div>
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At Home in Mitford</div>
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The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
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Into Thin Air</div>
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
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My Life in France</div>
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My Berlin Kitchen</div>
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The Professor and the Madman</div>
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Quartet in Autumn</div>
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The Muse</div>
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A Clearing in the Distance</div>
<div>
Winter Solstice</div>
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Gods in Alabama</div>
<div>
The Historian</div>
<div>
The Winds of War</div>
<div>
Team of Rivals</div>
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One True Loves</div>
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Atonement</div>
<div>
The Tea Rose</div>
<div>
The Night Watch</div>
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Night</div>
<div>
Life After Life</div>
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
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Mindset</div>
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Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
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A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
<div>
Grave Mercy</div>
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Death at La Fenice</div>
<div>
A Study in Charlotte</div>
<div>
A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
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From Doon with Death</div>
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The Coroner's Lunch</div>
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Raven Black</div>
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A Test of Wills</div>
<div>
The Cater Street Hangman</div>
<div>
The Crossing Places</div>
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Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
<div>
The Mangle Street Murders</div>
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The Kitchen House</div>
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First Impressions</div>
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
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Another Day in the Death of America</div>
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The Essex Serpent</div>
<div>
Caroline</div>
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The Other Alcott</div>
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Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
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The Name of the Wind</div>
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Possession</div>
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Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
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Birds of a Feather</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
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Loving Lucianna</div>
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Terms of Endearment</div>
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Three Wishes</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
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The Horse Dancer<br />
The Dark Enquiry</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
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The Austen Escape</div>
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A Fall of Marigolds</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
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My Cousin Rachel</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
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Jane Austen's First Love</div>
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Orphan Train</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
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44 Scotland Street</div>
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
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The Forgetting Time</div>
<div>
The Sea House</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
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Caleb's Crossing</div>
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For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
<div>
The Moonstone</div>
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The Day the Angels Fell</div>
<div>
Six of Crows </div>
<div>
Rules of Murder</div>
<div>
The Mountain Between Us</div>
<div>
Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
<div>
The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
<div>
The Bean Trees</div>
<div>
The Aviator's Wife</div>
<div>
The Seven Sisters</div>
<div>
Jane of Austin</div>
<div>
Unequal Affections</div>
<div>
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
<div>
A Wilder Rose</div>
<div>
Everything I Never Told You</div>
<div>
The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
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Dark Matter</div>
<div>
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-45538212628426050302018-11-30T00:00:00.000-05:002018-11-30T22:29:05.029-05:00What I've Been Reading - November 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my quick and personal thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. For specifics about each book, click on the provided book images.</span></span></div>
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This month, I decided it was time to complete Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series. I started this series in hopes that I would love it as much as I love Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, the two often being compared to one another. Sadly, I don't, but I am a completionist, so I had to complete this series despite my lack of love. Tana French does write smart, well-crafted murder mysteries that are more about the characters than the murders, much like Louise Penny, but I just don't love her characters as I do Penny's, nor do I get the cozy vibe I get from Penny's novels. Anyway, enough comparison. I found The Secret Place, the fifth book in this series, to be a good read. The premise and pacing kept me turning the pages. 3 stars (Warning - Language)</div>
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Like I said, this month was the time to complete this series. The Trespasser is the final book in the series (as of today) and, so, with its completion, I am done with the series. The Trespasser was also a good read. I didn't quite turn the pages as quickly as I did with The Secret Place, but almost. 3 stars (Warming - Language)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I chose A Little Princess to fulfill my goal to read one classic each month this year. This was one of those classics that I somehow missed growing up. I am glad to have finally read it. It was a sweet read and I can see why it is so loved. 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I am part of the Modern Mrs Darcy book club and this was the flight (optional) book this month. I almost didn't read it, because the synopsis didn't draw me in, but for some reason I decided to try it and I am so glad I did. It was a beautiful book. It touches on some tough topics, but, as it is written for middle graders, it is done so in a gentle manner. I highly recommend this one for all readers. 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This was a surprise read for me. I liked it so much more than I expected to. On my Instagram account, I asked for cozy December/Christmas reads. The Little Beach Street Bakery series was suggested, as it has a Christmas book within the series. Though a bit outside what I usually read, I decided to go for it. I am so glad I did. I really, really enjoyed it. Simple, sweet, quirky and fun. 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This is the second in the Little Beach Street Bakery series. It didn't quite live up to the first, but I still enjoyed it and definitely will pick up the third book in the series. Still simple, sweet, quirky and fun. 3 stars</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This was the main book chosen for Modern Mrs Darcy 's book club this month. Somehow, I had never even heard of this book. Thank goodness for book clubs, because I am so glad to have read it. It ended up being almost a five star read for me. How to describe what I loved about this book? It has a unique structure, which can be difficult. It has an unreliable narrator, amongst its many narrators, which can also be difficult. It is a bit tragic, but despite those things, (and because of those things) I loved it. Thankfully, it all came together in the end and I feel ended hopefully. I will definitely be returning to this one in the future. 4.5 stars</span></div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-59170392863594517572018-10-31T23:30:00.000-04:002018-10-31T23:30:00.316-04:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - October update<div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (15)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
<div>
Salt to the Sea</div>
<div>
The Alice Network</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
<div>
Gilead</div>
<div>
A Share in Death</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
<div>
I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Intuitive Eating</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
<div>
Brideshead Revisited</div>
<div>
Whose Body</div>
<div>
Cloud of Witness</div>
<div>
Unnatural Death</div>
<div>
Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (145)</b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Thorn Birds</strike></span></div>
<div>
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
<div>
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
<div>
Jayber Crow</div>
<div>
An Ember in Ashes</div>
<div>
The Once and Future King</div>
<div>
The Wednesday Wars</div>
<div>
The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
<div>
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
<div>
I Capture the Castle</div>
<div>
Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
<div>
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
<div>
Flight of the Sparrow</div>
<div>
The Gilded Years</div>
<div>
Dead Wake</div>
<div>
A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
<div>
Amy Snow</div>
<div>
Hannah Coulter</div>
<div>
The Sea of Tranquility</div>
<div>
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
<div>
The Girl in the Castle</div>
<div>
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
<div>
The Eyre Affair</div>
<div>
Gift from the Sea</div>
<div>
Poison Study</div>
<div>
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
<div>
Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
<div>
My Brilliant Friend</div>
<div>
The Year of Living Danishly</div>
<div>
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Penderwicks</div>
<div>
Honeymoon Hotel</div>
<div>
The Night Circus</div>
<div>
Code Name Verity</div>
<div>
The Marvels</div>
<div>
Moon Over Manifest</div>
<div>
Enchanted Islands</div>
<div>
At Home in Mitford</div>
<div>
The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
<div>
The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
<div>
Into Thin Air</div>
<div>
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
<div>
My Life in France</div>
<div>
My Berlin Kitchen</div>
<div>
The Professor and the Madman</div>
<div>
Quartet in Autumn</div>
<div>
The Muse</div>
<div>
A Clearing in the Distance</div>
<div>
Winter Solstice</div>
<div>
Wolf Hall</div>
<div>
Gods in Alabama</div>
<div>
The Historian</div>
<div>
The Winds of War</div>
<div>
Team of Rivals</div>
<div>
One True Loves</div>
<div>
Atonement</div>
<div>
The Tea Rose</div>
<div>
The Night Watch</div>
<div>
Night</div>
<div>
Life After Life</div>
<div>
Saint Maybe</div>
<div>
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
<div>
Mindset</div>
<div>
Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
<div>
A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
<div>
Grave Mercy</div>
<div>
Death at La Fenice</div>
<div>
A Study in Charlotte</div>
<div>
A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
<div>
From Doon with Death</div>
<div>
The Coroner's Lunch</div>
<div>
Raven Black</div>
<div>
A Test of Wills</div>
<div>
The Cater Street Hangman</div>
<div>
The Crossing Places</div>
<div>
Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
<div>
The Mangle Street Murders</div>
<div>
The Kitchen House</div>
<div>
First Impressions</div>
<div>
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
<div>
Another Day in the Death of America</div>
<div>
The Essex Serpent</div>
<div>
Caroline</div>
<div>
The Other Alcott</div>
<div>
Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
<div>
The Name of the Wind</div>
<div>
Possession</div>
<div>
The Atlas of Forgotten Places</div>
<div>
Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
<div>
Birds of a Feather</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
<div>
Loving Lucianna</div>
<div>
Terms of Endearment</div>
<div>
Three Wishes</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Horse Dancer</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Austen Escape</div>
<div>
A Fall of Marigolds</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Cousin Rachel</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
<div>
Jane Austen's First Love</div>
<div>
Orphan Train</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
<div>
44 Scotland Street</div>
<div>
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
<div>
The Forgetting Time</div>
<div>
The Sea House</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
<div>
Hum if You Don't Know the Words</div>
<div>
Caleb's Crossing</div>
<div>
For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
<div>
The Moonstone</div>
<div>
The Day the Angels Fell</div>
<div>
Six of Crows </div>
<div>
Rules of Murder</div>
<div>
The Hate U Give</div>
<div>
Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine</div>
<div>
The Mountain Between Us</div>
<div>
Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
<div>
The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
<div>
The Bean Trees</div>
<div>
The Aviator's Wife</div>
<div>
The Seven Sisters</div>
<div>
Jane of Austin</div>
<div>
Unequal Affections</div>
<div>
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
<div>
A Wilder Rose</div>
<div>
Everything I Never Told You</div>
<div>
The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
<div>
Emma in the Night<br />
Dark Matter</div>
<div>
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-32778543280201299092018-10-31T23:00:00.000-04:002018-10-31T23:00:01.819-04:002018 Reading Goals - October update<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">October was another good month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>The Old Man and the Sea </i></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read one nonfiction book - <i>Tell Me More</i></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
</div>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">I read one book from my shelves - <i>The Thorn Birds </i></li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-75357540698728618722018-10-31T22:30:00.000-04:002018-11-02T21:13:03.194-04:00What I've Been Reading - October 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I usually share my quick and personal thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. This month has been incredibly busy, so today I'm simply sharing what I've been reading and my star rating.</span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Enduring Light - 3 stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Tell Me More - 3 stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">The Hollow of Fear - 4 stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">The Old Man and the Sea - 4 stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">The Clockmaker's Daughter - 4 stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">The Thorn Birds - 3 stars</span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-85848081191317798272018-09-30T23:30:00.000-04:002018-09-30T23:30:05.050-04:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - September update<div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (15)</b></span></div>
<div>
Between Shades of Gray </div>
<div>
Salt to the Sea</div>
<div>
The Alice Network</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
<div>
Gilead</div>
<div>
A Share in Death</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
<div>
I am Malala</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore</strike></span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Intuitive Eating</strike></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
<div>
Brideshead Revisited</div>
<div>
Whose Body</div>
<div>
Cloud of Witness</div>
<div>
Unnatural Death</div>
<div>
Angelfall</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (145)</b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Thorn Birds</div>
<div>
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
<div>
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
<div>
Jayber Crow</div>
<div>
An Ember in Ashes</div>
<div>
The Once and Future King</div>
<div>
The Wednesday Wars</div>
<div>
The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
<div>
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
<div>
I Capture the Castle</div>
<div>
Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
<div>
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
<div>
Flight of the Sparrow</div>
<div>
The Gilded Years</div>
<div>
Dead Wake</div>
<div>
A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
<div>
Amy Snow</div>
<div>
Hannah Coulter</div>
<div>
The Sea of Tranquility</div>
<div>
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
<div>
The Girl in the Castle</div>
<div>
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
<div>
The Eyre Affair</div>
<div>
Gift from the Sea</div>
<div>
Poison Study</div>
<div>
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
<div>
Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
<div>
My Brilliant Friend</div>
<div>
The Year of Living Danishly</div>
<div>
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Penderwicks</div>
<div>
Honeymoon Hotel</div>
<div>
The Night Circus</div>
<div>
Code Name Verity</div>
<div>
The Marvels</div>
<div>
Moon Over Manifest</div>
<div>
Enchanted Islands</div>
<div>
At Home in Mitford</div>
<div>
The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
<div>
The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
<div>
Into Thin Air</div>
<div>
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
<div>
My Life in France</div>
<div>
My Berlin Kitchen</div>
<div>
The Professor and the Madman</div>
<div>
Quartet in Autumn</div>
<div>
The Muse</div>
<div>
A Clearing in the Distance</div>
<div>
Winter Solstice</div>
<div>
Wolf Hall</div>
<div>
Gods in Alabama</div>
<div>
The Historian</div>
<div>
The Winds of War</div>
<div>
Team of Rivals</div>
<div>
One True Loves</div>
<div>
Atonement</div>
<div>
The Tea Rose</div>
<div>
The Night Watch</div>
<div>
Night</div>
<div>
Life After Life</div>
<div>
Saint Maybe</div>
<div>
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
<div>
Mindset</div>
<div>
Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
<div>
A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
<div>
Grave Mercy</div>
<div>
Death at La Fenice</div>
<div>
A Study in Charlotte</div>
<div>
A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
<div>
From Doon with Death</div>
<div>
The Coroner's Lunch</div>
<div>
Raven Black</div>
<div>
A Test of Wills</div>
<div>
The Cater Street Hangman</div>
<div>
The Crossing Places</div>
<div>
Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
<div>
The Mangle Street Murders</div>
<div>
The Kitchen House</div>
<div>
First Impressions</div>
<div>
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
<div>
Another Day in the Death of America</div>
<div>
The Essex Serpent</div>
<div>
Caroline</div>
<div>
The Other Alcott</div>
<div>
Big Stone Gap</div>
<div>
The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
<div>
The Name of the Wind</div>
<div>
Possession</div>
<div>
The Atlas of Forgotten Places</div>
<div>
Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
<div>
Birds of a Feather</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
<div>
Loving Lucianna</div>
<div>
Terms of Endearment</div>
<div>
Three Wishes</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Horse Dancer</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
<div>
The Austen Escape</div>
<div>
A Fall of Marigolds</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
<div>
My Cousin Rachel</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
<div>
Jane Austen's First Love</div>
<div>
Orphan Train</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
<div>
44 Scotland Street</div>
<div>
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
<div>
The Forgetting Time</div>
<div>
The Sea House</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
<div>
Hum if You Don't Know the Words</div>
<div>
Caleb's Crossing</div>
<div>
For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
<div>
The Moonstone</div>
<div>
The Day the Angels Fell</div>
<div>
Six of Crows </div>
<div>
Rules of Murder</div>
<div>
The Hate U Give</div>
<div>
Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine</div>
<div>
The Mountain Between Us</div>
<div>
Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
<div>
The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
<div>
The Bean Trees</div>
<div>
The Aviator's Wife</div>
<div>
The Seven Sisters</div>
<div>
Jane of Austin</div>
<div>
Unequal Affections</div>
<div>
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
<div>
A Wilder Rose</div>
<div>
Everything I Never Told You</div>
<div>
The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
<div>
Emma in the Night<br />
Dark Matter</div>
<div>
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-35898563327340923562018-09-30T23:00:00.000-04:002018-09-30T23:00:04.224-04:002018 Reading Goals - September update<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">September was another good month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>East of Eden</i></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read one nonfiction book - <i>Intuitive Eating</i></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
</div>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">I read one book from my shelves - <i>Intuitive Eating</i></li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-83624711524351184172018-09-30T22:30:00.000-04:002018-10-03T18:26:57.838-04:00What I've Been Reading - September 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my quick and personal thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. For specifics about each book, click on the book images.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Loving Lieutenant Lancaster - 5 stars</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524405256/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1524405256&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=e839dab02fb76be72be0b85c65da6231" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=1524405256&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="267" /></a></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
Promises and Primroses - 3 stars</div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1629724572/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1629724572&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=4e3b52c0085054daabb917f274cd7e87" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=1629724572&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="259" /></a></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
Broken Harbor - 3 stars</div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143123300/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143123300&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=876264ac3c1322fcf030661a818267f0" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=0143123300&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="260" /></a></span><br />
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The Weaver's Daughter - 3 stars</div>
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Intuitive Eating - 3.5 stars</div>
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East of Eden - 4 stars</div>
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The German Girl - 3.5 stars</div>
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Borrowed Light - 3 stars<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-52031897977842637482018-08-31T01:00:00.000-04:002018-08-31T01:00:02.503-04:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - Summer update<div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly (sometimes seasonally) to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (14)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
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Salt to the Sea</div>
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The Alice Network</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Kristin Lavransdatter</strike></span></div>
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
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Gilead</div>
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A Share in Death</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Five Love Languages</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>How to Hug a Hedgehog</strike></span></div>
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I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
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Brideshead Revisited</div>
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Whose Body</div>
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Cloud of Witness</div>
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Unnatural Death</div>
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Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (163)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
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The Thorn Birds</div>
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
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Jayber Crow</div>
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An Ember in Ashes</div>
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The Once and Future King</div>
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The Wednesday Wars</div>
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The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
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I Capture the Castle</div>
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Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
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Flight of the Sparrow</div>
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The Gilded Years</div>
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Dead Wake</div>
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A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
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Amy Snow</div>
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Hannah Coulter</div>
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The Sea of Tranquility</div>
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
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The Girl in the Castle</div>
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
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The Eyre Affair</div>
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Gift from the Sea</div>
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Poison Study</div>
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Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
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Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
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My Brilliant Friend</div>
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The Year of Living Danishly</div>
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Penderwicks</div>
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Honeymoon Hotel</div>
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The Night Circus</div>
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<strike>Home</strike></div>
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<strike>Lila</strike></div>
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Code Name Verity</div>
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The Marvels</div>
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Moon Over Manifest</div>
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Enchanted Islands</div>
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At Home in Mitford</div>
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The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
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Into Thin Air</div>
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
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My Life in France</div>
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My Berlin Kitchen</div>
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The Professor and the Madman</div>
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Quartet in Autumn</div>
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The Muse</div>
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A Clearing in the Distance</div>
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Winter Solstice</div>
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Wolf Hall</div>
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Gods in Alabama</div>
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The Historian</div>
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The Winds of War</div>
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Team of Rivals</div>
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One True Loves</div>
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Atonement</div>
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The Tea Rose</div>
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The Night Watch</div>
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Night</div>
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Life After Life</div>
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Saint Maybe</div>
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
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Mindset</div>
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Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
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A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
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Grave Mercy</div>
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Death at La Fenice</div>
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A Study in Charlotte</div>
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A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
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From Doon with Death</div>
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The Coroner's Lunch</div>
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Raven Black</div>
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A Test of Wills</div>
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The Cater Street Hangman</div>
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The Crossing Places</div>
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Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
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The Mangle Street Murders</div>
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The Kitchen House</div>
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First Impressions</div>
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Legendary</strike></span></div>
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Another Day in the Death of America</div>
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The Essex Serpent</div>
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Caroline</div>
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The Other Alcott</div>
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Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
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The Name of the Wind<br />
<strike>The Picture of Dorian Gray</strike></div>
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Possession</div>
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places</div>
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Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
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Birds of a Feather</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
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Loving Lucianna</div>
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Terms of Endearment</div>
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Three Wishes</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
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The Horse Dancer</div>
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<strike>The Dark Inquiry</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
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The Austen Escape</div>
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<strike>The Precious One</strike></div>
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A Fall of Marigolds</div>
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<strike>Margarettown</strike></div>
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<strike>Lady Crenshaw's Christmas</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Origin</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Dollhouse</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Lady of Bolton Hill</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Silent Songbird</strike></div>
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My Cousin Rachel</div>
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<strike>The Goose Girl</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></span></div>
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Jane Austen's First Love</div>
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<strike>Prodigal Summer</strike></div>
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Orphan Train</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Hearts We Mend</strike></div>
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44 Scotland Street</div>
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
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The Forgetting Time</div>
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The Sea House</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
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Hum if You Don't Know the Words</div>
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Caleb's Crossing</div>
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For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
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The Moonstone</div>
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The Day the Angels Fell</div>
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Six of Crows </div>
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<strike>The Princess Bride</strike></div>
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Rules of Murder</div>
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The Hate U Give</div>
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Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine</div>
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The Mountain Between Us</div>
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Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
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The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
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The Bean Trees</div>
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The Aviator's Wife</div>
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<strike>East of Eden</strike> </div>
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<strike>In Dubious Battle</strike></div>
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<strike>Britt Marie was Here</strike></div>
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The Seven Sisters</div>
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Jane of Austin</div>
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Unequal Affections</div>
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
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A Wilder Rose</div>
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Everything I Never Told You</div>
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The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
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Emma in the Night<br />
Dark Matter</div>
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<strike>The Railway Children</strike><br />
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-23063220738391519612018-08-31T00:30:00.000-04:002018-08-31T00:30:06.713-04:002018 Reading Goals - Summer update<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Despite my busy summer, I was able to keep up with my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read three classic books - <i>Kristin Lavransdatter, O Pioneers!</i> and <i>The Blue Castle</i></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read three nonfiction books - <i>How to Hug a Hedgehog, Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore </i>and <i>The Five Love Languages</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read three books from my shelves - <i>The Suspect's Daughter, Origin</i> and<i> Legendary</i></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-2279479347374067222018-08-31T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-01T20:22:05.054-04:00What I've Been Reading - Summer 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my quick and personal thoughts on what I've been reading this past month (or season). For specifics about each book, click on the provided book images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">How to Hug a Hedgehog - 3 stars</span></div>
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I was hoping for more from this book. It had helpful ideas, but I had heard all of them before.</div>
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Why I Don't Hide My Freckles Anymore - 3 stars</div>
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I enjoyed this collection of essays.</div>
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The 5 Love Languages - 4 stars </div>
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This book had been sitting on my shelf for one too many years. I am so glad I have finally read it. All these years I have assumed my love language was physical touch. I was wrong. It is quality time.</div>
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The Bridal Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter #1) - 3 stars</div>
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I was expecting to love this classic book. I didn't. It was just okay.</div>
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O Pioneers! - 4.5 stars</div>
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I went into this classic book knowing nothing. It was fantastic. I can't wait to read more by Willa Cather.</div>
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The Blue Castle - 4.5 stars</div>
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I love L. M. Montgomery. This book was very different from her Anne and Emily books, but I loved it.</div>
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The Suspect's Daughter (Rogue Hearts #4) - 4 stars</div>
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Unmasking the Duke (Rogue Hearts #5) - 4 stars</div>
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Courting the Countess (Courting #1) - 4 stars</div>
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Courting the Country Miss (Courting #2) - 4 stars</div>
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Donna Hatch wins my personal award for best books with the worst covers. She writes clean, romantic, regency-era books. I really enjoy them. I just wish they had different covers.</div>
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My Dearest Enemy - 3 stars</div>
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This book was simple, but sweet.<br />
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My Dearest Love (Hope Springs #0.5) - 5 stars</div>
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Sarah M. Eden can do no wrong in my book. I loved this novella.</div>
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A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) - 3 stars</div>
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Deanna Raybourn's books are a lot of fun. This one was no different.</div>
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Kiss of the Spindle - 3 stars</div>
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This book was different, but a lot of fun.</div>
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Legendary (Caravel #2) - 3.5 stars</div>
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This book was a highly anticipated read for me. It didn't disappoint. I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to the third in the series.</div>
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The Widows of Malabar Hill - 3 stars</div>
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I learned so much from this book and it was a really good mystery.</div>
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - 5 stars</div>
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If you are a book lover and you haven't read this book yet, please do. It is wonderful. This was a re-read for me and I think I fell even more in love with it this second time.</div>
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Origin - 2 stars</div>
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I picked this one up on a whim at the library. I wish I hadn't. I don't believe I will be giving Dan Brown another chance.</div>
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Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) - 3 stars</div>
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I haven't yet decided if I like Tana French or not. Her writing is fantastic, but at times it is a little too gritty for me. The jury is still out. (Language warning!)</div>
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I'll Be Your Blue Sky (Love Walked In #3) - 4 stars</div>
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I loved this book. It was smart, but simple and sweet.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-68896750130822293992018-05-31T23:30:00.000-04:002018-05-31T23:30:09.462-04:00#theunreadshelfproject2018 - May update<div>
One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (14)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
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Salt to the Sea</div>
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The Alice Network</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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Kristin Lavransdatter</div>
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
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Gilead</div>
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A Share in Death</div>
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The Five Love Languages</div>
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How to Hug a Hedgehog</div>
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I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
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Brideshead Revisited</div>
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Whose Body</div>
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Cloud of Witness</div>
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Unnatural Death</div>
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Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (163)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
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The Thorn Birds</div>
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
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Jayber Crow</div>
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An Ember in Ashes</div>
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The Once and Future King</div>
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The Wednesday Wars</div>
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The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
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I Capture the Castle</div>
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Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
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Flight of the Sparrow</div>
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The Gilded Years</div>
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Dead Wake</div>
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A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
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Amy Snow</div>
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Hannah Coulter</div>
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The Sea of Tranquility</div>
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
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The Girl in the Castle</div>
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
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The Eyre Affair</div>
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Gift from the Sea</div>
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Poison Study</div>
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Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
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Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
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My Brilliant Friend</div>
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The Year of Living Danishly</div>
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Penderwicks</div>
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Honeymoon Hotel</div>
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The Night Circus</div>
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<strike>Home</strike></div>
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<strike>Lila</strike></div>
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Code Name Verity</div>
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The Marvels</div>
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Moon Over Manifest</div>
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Enchanted Islands</div>
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At Home in Mitford</div>
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The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
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Into Thin Air</div>
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
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My Life in France</div>
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My Berlin Kitchen</div>
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The Professor and the Madman</div>
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Quartet in Autumn</div>
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The Muse</div>
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A Clearing in the Distance</div>
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Winter Solstice</div>
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Wolf Hall</div>
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Gods in Alabama</div>
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The Historian</div>
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The Winds of War</div>
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Team of Rivals</div>
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One True Loves</div>
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Atonement</div>
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The Tea Rose</div>
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The Night Watch</div>
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Night</div>
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Life After Life</div>
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Saint Maybe</div>
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
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Mindset</div>
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Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
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A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
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Grave Mercy</div>
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Death at La Fenice</div>
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A Study in Charlotte</div>
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A Beautiful Blue Death<br />
Flight of Dreams<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>I Was Anastasia</strike></span></div>
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From Doon with Death</div>
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The Coroner's Lunch</div>
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Raven Black</div>
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A Test of Wills</div>
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The Cater Street Hangman</div>
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The Crossing Places</div>
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Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
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The Mangle Street Murders</div>
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The Kitchen House</div>
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First Impressions</div>
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
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Legendary</div>
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Another Day in the Death of America</div>
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The Essex Serpent</div>
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Caroline</div>
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The Other Alcott</div>
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Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
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The Name of the Wind<br />
<strike>The Picture of Dorian Gray</strike></div>
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Possession</div>
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places</div>
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Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
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Birds of a Feather</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
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Loving Lucianna</div>
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Terms of Endearment</div>
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Three Wishes</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
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The Horse Dancer</div>
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<strike>The Dark Inquiry</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Perilous Undertaking</strike></span></div>
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The Austen Escape</div>
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<strike>The Precious One</strike></div>
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A Fall of Marigolds</div>
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<strike>Margarettown</strike></div>
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<strike>Lady Crenshaw's Christmas</strike></div>
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<strike>Origin</strike></div>
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<strike>The Dollhouse</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Lady of Bolton Hill</strike></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Fairest Beauty</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Silent Songbird</strike></div>
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My Cousin Rachel</div>
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<strike>The Goose Girl</strike></div>
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<strike>The Suspect's Daughter</strike></div>
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Jane Austen's First Love</div>
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<strike>Prodigal Summer</strike></div>
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Orphan Train</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Dawn at Emberwilde</strike></span></div>
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<strike>The Hearts We Mend</strike></div>
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44 Scotland Street</div>
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
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The Forgetting Time</div>
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The Sea House</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Conspiracy in Belgravia</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Magpie Murders</strike></span></div>
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Hum if You Don't Know the Words</div>
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Caleb's Crossing</div>
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For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
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The Moonstone</div>
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The Day the Angels Fell</div>
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Six of Crows </div>
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<strike>The Princess Bride</strike></div>
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Rules of Murder</div>
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The Hate U Give</div>
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Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine</div>
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The Mountain Between Us</div>
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Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
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The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
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The Bean Trees</div>
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The Aviator's Wife</div>
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<strike>East of Eden</strike> </div>
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<strike>In Dubious Battle</strike></div>
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<strike>Britt Marie was Here</strike></div>
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The Seven Sisters</div>
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Jane of Austin</div>
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Unequal Affections</div>
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
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A Wilder Rose</div>
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Everything I Never Told You</div>
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The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
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Emma in the Night<br />
Dark Matter</div>
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<strike>The Railway Children</strike><br />
The Time In Between<br />
The Darkling Bride </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-86017949819072435932018-05-31T23:00:00.000-04:002018-05-31T23:00:03.636-04:002018 Reading Goals - May update<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">May was an amazing month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>Howards End</i></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read two nonfiction books - <i>Educated </i>and <i>In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one book from my shelves - <i>Magpie Murders, Dawn at Emberwilde, I Was Anastasia, A Conspiracy In Belgravia </i>and<i> The Fairest Beauty</i></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-51042674898330169292018-05-31T22:30:00.000-04:002018-06-06T08:49:51.303-04:00What I've Been Reading - May 2018<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;">Welcome to What I've Been Reading, where I share my (quick and personal) thoughts on what I've been reading this past month. For specifics (plot summary, etc.) about each book, click on the provided links or book images.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399590501/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399590501&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=f06296adaa6151c0f92ff139b6597240" style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Educated</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"> by Tara Westover (4 stars)
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399585966/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399585966&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=1e980a36ec653b29ca6b1ddc6377a844" target="_blank">As Bright as Heaven</a> by Susan Meissner (3 stars)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399585966/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399585966&linkCode=as2&tag=jamiesfashion-20&linkId=ed21d4e1fe5c1a2acf8d47995c7338d7" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="400" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=0399585966&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL250_&tag=jamiesfashion-20" width="265" /></a></div>
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One of my reading goals this year is to read more books from my shelves, whether they be my physical shelves, the shelves on my Kindle or Nook, or the shelves on my Goodreads account. To help keep me accountable, I will be loosely joining in with #theunreadshelfproject2018 on Bookstagram and checking in here, on my blog, monthly to see how I am progressing with my goal. Here's how my shelves look today.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PHYSICAL (14)</b></span></div>
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Between Shades of Gray </div>
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Salt to the Sea</div>
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The Alice Network</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Reading People</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Chemistry of Calm</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Jane and the Wandering Eye</strike></span></div>
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Kristin Lavransdatter</div>
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</div>
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Gilead</div>
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A Share in Death</div>
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The Five Love Languages</div>
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How to Hug a Hedgehog</div>
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I am Malala</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>For Times of Trouble</strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>KINDLE (5)</b></span></div>
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Brideshead Revisited</div>
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Whose Body</div>
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Cloud of Witness</div>
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Unnatural Death</div>
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Angelfall</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NOOK (2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>A Timeless Romance Anthology - Mail Order Bride collection</strike></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Murder on the Orient Express </strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOODREADS (161)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Book Thief</strike></span></div>
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The Thorn Birds</div>
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</div>
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</div>
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Jayber Crow</div>
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An Ember in Ashes</div>
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The Once and Future King</div>
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The Wednesday Wars</div>
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The Beekeepers Apprentice</div>
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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery</div>
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I Capture the Castle</div>
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Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1)</div>
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk</div>
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Flight of the Sparrow</div>
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The Gilded Years</div>
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Dead Wake</div>
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A Prayer for Owen Meany</div>
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Amy Snow</div>
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Hannah Coulter</div>
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The Sea of Tranquility</div>
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</div>
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The Girl in the Castle</div>
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The Time in Between</div>
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber</div>
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The Eyre Affair</div>
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Gift from the Sea</div>
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Poison Study</div>
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Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2)</div>
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Emma (The Austen Project #3)</div>
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My Brilliant Friend</div>
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The Year of Living Danishly</div>
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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Penderwicks</div>
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Honeymoon Hotel</div>
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The Night Circus</div>
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Home</div>
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Lila</div>
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Code Name Verity</div>
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The Marvels</div>
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Moon Over Manifest</div>
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Enchanted Islands</div>
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At Home in Mitford</div>
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The Sweetness of Forgetting</div>
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain</div>
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Into Thin Air</div>
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper </div>
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My Life in France</div>
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My Berlin Kitchen</div>
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The Professor and the Madman</div>
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Quartet in Autumn</div>
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The Muse</div>
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A Clearing in the Distance</div>
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Winter Solstice</div>
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Wolf Hall</div>
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Gods in Alabama</div>
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The Historian</div>
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The Winds of War</div>
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Team of Rivals</div>
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One True Loves</div>
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Atonement</div>
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The Tea Rose</div>
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The Night Watch</div>
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Night</div>
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Life After Life</div>
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Saint Maybe</div>
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</div>
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Mindset</div>
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Walk on Earth a Stranger</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Anatomist's Wife</strike></span></div>
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A Portrait of Emily Price</div>
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Grave Mercy</div>
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Death at La Fenice</div>
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A Study in Charlotte</div>
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A Beautiful Blue Death</div>
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Flight of Dreams</div>
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From Doon with Death</div>
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The Coroner's Lunch</div>
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Raven Black</div>
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A Test of Wills</div>
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The Cater Street Hangman</div>
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The Crossing Places</div>
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Whispers Beyond the Veil</div>
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The Mangle Street Murders</div>
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The Kitchen House</div>
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First Impressions</div>
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore</div>
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Legendary</div>
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Another Day in the Death of America</div>
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The Essex Serpent</div>
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Caroline</div>
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The Other Alcott</div>
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Big Stone Gap</div>
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The Time Traveler's Wife</div>
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The Name of the Wind</div>
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Possession</div>
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places</div>
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Uncharted<br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Force of Nature</strike></span></div>
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Birds of a Feather</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Likeness</strike></span></div>
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Loving Lucianna</div>
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Terms of Endearment</div>
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Three Wishes</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>Still Me</strike></span></div>
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The Horse Dancer</div>
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The Dark Inquiry</div>
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A Perilous Undertaking</div>
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The Austen Escape</div>
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The Precious One</div>
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A Fall of Marigolds</div>
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Margarettown</div>
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Lady Crenshaw's Christmas</div>
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Origin</div>
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The Dollhouse</div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><strike>The Secret of the India Orchid</strike></span></div>
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The Lady of Bolton Hill</div>
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The Fairest Beauty</div>
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The Silent Songbird</div>
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My Cousin Rachel</div>
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The Goose Girl</div>
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The Suspect's Daughter</div>
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Jane Austen's First Love</div>
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Prodigal Summer</div>
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Orphan Train</div>
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Dawn at Emberwilde</div>
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The Hearts We Mend</div>
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44 Scotland Street</div>
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window</div>
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The Forgetting Time</div>
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The Sea House</div>
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A Conspiracy in Belgravia</div>
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Magpie Murders</div>
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The Secret Garden</div>
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Hum if You Don't Know the Words</div>
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Caleb's Crossing</div>
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For Darkness Shows the Stars</div>
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The Moonstone</div>
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The Day the Angels Fell</div>
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Six of Crows </div>
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The Princess Bride</div>
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Rules of Murder</div>
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The Bear and the Nightingale</div>
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The Hate U Give</div>
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Eleanor Oliphant is Just Fine</div>
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The Mountain Between Us</div>
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This Must be the Place</div>
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Luck, Love and Lemon Pie</div>
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The Madwoman Upstairs</div>
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The Bean Trees</div>
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The Aviator's Wife</div>
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East of Eden </div>
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In Dubious Battle</div>
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Britt Marie was Here</div>
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The Seven Sisters</div>
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Jane of Austin</div>
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Unequal Affections</div>
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</div>
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A Wilder Rose</div>
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Everything I Never Told You</div>
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The Great Halifax Explosion</div>
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Emma in the Night</div>
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The Railway Children</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979311340141068419.post-1734501845293286292018-04-30T23:00:00.000-04:002018-05-01T13:08:15.390-04:002018 Reading Goals - April update<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">April was another great month for my reading goals. Here is how I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE CLASSIC LITERATURE</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one classic book - <i>A Room with a View</i></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE NONFICTION</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I read one nonfiction book - <i>Reading People</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">READ MORE FROM MY SHELVES (PHYSICAL/KINDLE/NOOK/GOODREADS)</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I read one book from my shelves - <i>The Likenss</i></li>
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