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Tag Archives: literature
2025 in Review – My Favorite Books
Here’s my annual look back at the books I rated 9 – the ones I’d be mostly likely to go back to in the future – and the 15(!) I reread. Continue reading
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Tagged Best Books of 2025, bibliography, book blog, book blogs, book lists, book-review, books, Favorite Books, Favorite Books of 2025, fiction, literature, reading
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Listening for Madeline
Madeleine L’Engle has been one of my top favorite authors ever since I was about 10, so of course I bought this for the library as soon as I heard about it. I’m hoping some other L’Engle fans at the … Continue reading
Reduced Shakespeare
I recently engaged in some librarian geekiness by re-cataloging my library’s Shakespeare collection. No longer are the plays and anthologies and works about the author jumbled together, though plays sorted by some thoughtful pages by publisher. Now all of Shakespeare … Continue reading


