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Books for February

February 1, 2022

“There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.”
— Gertrude Jekyll

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Favorite First Lines

May 26, 2020

I play this game when I’m reading a book – I try to guess what the first paragraph the author wrote is. As a writer myself, I presume what becomes the opening line isn’t how the first draft began, but I always wonder where the original kernel is buried. These are some of my favorite (published) first sentences of books.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Thankful

November 26, 2019

Books and reading are such an important, and joyful, part of my life. I’m grateful for many things literary-related.

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Favorite Haunted House Books [31 Days of Halloween: October 25]

October 25, 2018

I’m sure it is no surprise that I love haunted house stories. I think I like the mystery. I want to figure out the puzzle of why the house is haunted. These are some of my favorite books with a haunted house at the center.

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Armchair Book Expo: Introductions

May 31, 2017

Welcome to Armchair Book Expo, an online conference for those of us who can’t attend Book expo in person. I’m pleased to be participating for the seventh year.

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We all do it — get really excited for a new book, make sure it’s preordered or on the library waitlist, count down the days until we can get it in our hands, hug it all the way home, then add it to pile and promptly begin to feel guilty about not reading it immediately. It happens. Sometimes you need a book that fits your mood. Sometimes you are in the midst of another book at the time. For me, it’s often that I am revelling in the anticipation of reading the book and being immersed in it. The promise of the book is as exciting as anything. Of course this is tempered in equal measure by the shame of allowing the book to sit there unread…

Currently Reading

Meaghan's bookshelf: currently-reading

Metropolitan Stories
Metropolitan Stories
by Christine Coulson
The Pursuit of William Abbey
The Pursuit of William Abbey
by Claire North
Beheld
Beheld
by TaraShea Nesbit

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