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• Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2024

  

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is the best authors we discovered in 2024. These are all authors I’d like to read more of. Read more

  The 28 january 2025 by   Curlygeek04
  @curlygeek04
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• Jane Austen: Private Eye

  

  Today’s blog topic is a hangover from last year, when I had the idea of delving into detective novels featuring real historical figures. Read more

  The 26 january 2025 by   Chris Mills
  @landing_tales
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• Last Men in London (1932) by Olaf Stapledon

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: In my twelve years as a member of the Popular Fiction Reading Group, I have never yet given up on a book, though I nearly did... Read more

  The 26 january 2025 by   Erica
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• Chickens

  

  Typically around the penultimate week-end in January, we have an avian theme to the Dead Good Blog, to chime in with the RSPB's 'Big Garden Birdwatch' event. Read more

  The 25 january 2025 by   Ashleylister
  @ashleylister
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• Review of Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom...

  

  I’ve been recommending this book a lot in the few weeks since I read it. I don’t typically like actor memoirs, since I’m not all that interested in the life of... Read more

  The 25 january 2025 by   Curlygeek04
  @curlygeek04
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• The Unwild Child

  One of the essays in Emilie Pine’s collection, Notes to Self, details her rackety, out-of-control adolescence, full of drugs and drink and underage sex and... Read more

  The 25 january 2025 by   Litlove
  @Litloveblog
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• Best of 2024!

  

  Late I know, but in case anyone is curious I thought I’d share my 2024 end of year list. I like to do these in January in case I have a great late December read... Read more

  The 24 january 2025 by   Pechorin
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• AUTHOR VISIT to Raise Money for Los Angeles Wildfire Relief

  

  You can help! The children’s book community is rallying to help victims of the recent terrible fires in Los Angeles by holding an online auction. Read more

  The 24 january 2025 by   Carolinearnoldtravel
  @CarolineSArnold
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• 365 Days of Inspiration

  Hello, Readers!I wish I could have popped on here sooner, but I was laid up again with yet another back injury. I am finally healed and on the mend. Whew. It... Read more

  The 23 january 2025 by   Steph's Scribe
  @stephverni
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• WHAT ABOUT BACK MATTER? HOW MUCH TO INCLUDE: A Look at the Back Matter in...

  

  I love back matter. At my recent children’s nonfiction picture book group meeting we discussed how back matter is used to expand the main text—from author’s... Read more

  The 22 january 2025 by   Carolinearnoldtravel
  @CarolineSArnold
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