Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Cool Bookish Merchandise. I think I already own the coolest bookish item in the world. I inherited my grandparents' watercolor map of Bronte country.

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The fabulous weekend is over. It was a good time. I feel like a human again. The hotel was meh. My room was on the fourth floor, right on the elevator landing. It

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It's Saturday night. I woke up just before 9:00 and went to the coffee shop in the lobby for breakfast. I came back to the room and started reading. I

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So I got some books wrong and missed some on the list from yesterday. Here is the complete list. The Dry by Jane Harper Friends in High Places by Donna Leon - I

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It's here! It's here! It's finally here!!! When I get off work today, I'm starting my lost book weekend. My giant suitcase is in my

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Today's Top Five Wednesday topic is Longest Books on My TBR. Not to be confused with books that have been on my TBR the longest. I'm limiting this to

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Yesterday's Top Ten Tuesday topic was Backlist Books I Still Need to Read. Backlist is kind of a nebulous criterion. Basically it means books that aren't newly published. But

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So after I got through my feelings about stopping reading a book I couldn't remember why I was reading, I remembered why I was reading it. It fulfilled a Read Harder

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The Masters is done. But I still have to work a lot this weekend. And Sunday, I am planning a trip to a scenic drive with my daughter if she gets her schoolwork

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This is going to be weird. Since my TBR was just a selection of books I might read, I think I'm going to skip that and just talk about what I

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I was Abby Normal from the You Suck and Bite Me book by Christopher Moore.

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Today, I am doing a Halloween book tag in honor of the holiday tomorrow. THE TAG: Carving pumpkins- what book would you carve up and light on fire? - That would be The

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