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Exciting Books Coming Out in 2023
While I have made a concerted (and fairly successful) effort to read more back-list books over the past few years, when I look at my book statistics every year, close to 40% of the books I read are published in the current year and the year before (I can’t resist shiny things!). Below are some of the books I am most excited about digging into this upcoming year. Many of these are books by authors whose work I have already read and loved, but only one of them is a sequel, so there is plenty for everyone to enjoy! Realistic Fiction February – I Have Some Questions For You by…
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A Holiday Reading Vacation
There is a strange time of year when the “best of” lists have come out, but we still have some time before we actually start the next year’s reading/watching/listening. It means I can blow my Spotify up with Christmas music, watch some of the TV shows that I haven’t gotten to yet, but I when it comes to reading, I don’t always know what to do with December, especially as there just are not a lot of books being released this time of year. Some years, I use this time to “catch up”, to read the books I had meant to read and to finish books that I have been…
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Bookish Connections: Travels around Great Britain
I always love it when things line up suddenly, and today, I have a fun story about a surprise book connection, and with it, a couple very back-list books that may interest you. To start with, when I was 13, my family moved to England for a year as part of a Fulbright teacher exchange. As was usual for me, I read everything I could get my hands on, and as we traveled that was often whatever books were at the rentals and places we stayed. Somewhere in our travels, I picked up an old trade paperback called The Kingdom by the Sea, which was written by a travel writer…
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