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Booking Through Thursday: Worst best book

Let’s go Booking Through Thursday! “What’s the worst ‘best’ book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?” This is a hard question for me to answer — mostly because I … Continue reading

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Booking Through Thursday: Collectibles

Let’s go Booking Through Thursday! This week we’re discussing collectible books: • Hardcover? Or paperback? • Illustrations? Or just text? • First editions? Or you don’t care? • Signed by the author? Or not? I don’t really “collect” books, persay … Continue reading

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Book review: ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ by J.K. Rowling

A great, fast read for fans of J.K. Rowling’s famed Harry Potter series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard features five folklore vignettes: “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty … Continue reading

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Tuesday Thingers: Popularity

This week’s Tuesday Thingers question from the Boston Bibliophile: What’s the most popular book in your library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it? Like many folks, this honor goes to J.K. Rowling’s Harry … Continue reading

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Musing Mondays: OMG Twilight!

This week’s Musing Mondays question from its new home at Just One More Page: How do you feel about wide-spread reading phenomenons – Harry Potter, for instance, or the more current Twilight Saga? Are these books so widely read for … Continue reading

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Best-selling books of the last 15 years

I absolutely love lists! S. Krishna posted about USA TODAY’S top 150 best-selling books of the last 15 years, so I had to go through them and figure out how many I’ve read — of course! I’ve bolded everything I’ve checked … Continue reading

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