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Earthquake!
I have lived on the west coast for nearly four years now and, despite the fact that there have been reports of a few incidents in the last few years, I have yet to feel the tremors of an earthquake. I have, however, written an article about one. If you’ve done some sleuthing on this…
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Ugh.
STORY TIME! Last night a very large spider came crawling out of my (still mostly packed) suitcase and hustled across my floor. I’m not scared of spiders, so I thought that I would try to relocate it. But every time I picked it up or came close to trapping it, it would escape and skitter…
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Winter by Marissa Meyer
Typically, when I have to wait for a long while between books in a series, I lose interest and drop it. But I am glad that I powered through to finish Meyer’s Lunar Chronicals (minus Fairest, which is still on my list). With this last book, it became very clear that Meyer had a solid, entertaining,…
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Book Challenge 2015 revisited
December 31 and I’m finally finished my 2015 reading challenge. I feel like I’ve accomplished so much. And because I feel like this accomplishment should be acknowledged by everyone commemorated, I thought I’d do a little review before jumping into 2016. So, without further ado: Total books read: 49 Total authors read: 38 Total books…
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
A stunning love letter to pianos: “We invest it with our dreams, we touch it offhandedly as we walk by, we crown it with favorite photos and treasured objects until it becomes a kind of domestic shrine. But when it is gone from our lives, it can’t really be replaced, not for what it encompasses as…
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
I do believe I’ll read more Hemingway in the future. I quite enjoy his witty characters and staccatoed sentences. Besides, he wrote this: “I drank a bottle of wine for company … A bottle of wine was good company.” I think we would have gotten along splendidly. No. 25 on my challenge. This year marks…
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