News & Notes – October 3, 2020

News & Notes – October 3, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Literary Losses Winston Groom, author of the novel Forrest Gump (later turned into a film starring Tom Hanks), died Sept. 17 at the age of 77…. Read more »

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Boo-Cause Reading’s Spooktacular: Witches

Boo-Cause Reading’s Spooktacular: Witches

Boo-Cause Reading’s Spooktacular, hosted by Because Reading, focuses on different “spooky” topics throughout the month of October; you can view the schedule at the link. Participants can interpret the topics in any way they wish. Since this is a book blog, I’ll be including at least a few book recommendations… Read more »

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My Favorite Bookish Quotes

My Favorite Bookish Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Favorite Book Quotes. Confession time: These aren’t necessarily my very favorite quotes, although some of them fall in that category. Instead, they… Read more »

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Banned Books Week 2020

Banned Books Week 2020

It’s Banned Books Week! Censorship of books (“banning” books) occurs all over the world, even in countries that generally oppose censorship.* In the US, it’s usually a state or local issue, and often involves books that a minority of people don’t want their library (or libraries) to carry, or their… Read more »

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Sunday Post – 9/27/2020

Sunday Post – 9/27/2020

The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! Last Week Last night, we had another Zoom family birthday party, this time for my brother-in-law,… Read more »

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News & Notes – September 25, 2020

News & Notes – September 25, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. News & Notes is publishing a day early this week, in order to bring you links to the National Book Festival, taking place online from Friday,… Read more »

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Top Ten Books on My Fall 2020 TBR

Top Ten Books on My Fall 2020 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Fall TBR. Here are the ten eleven books I am (currently) most interested in reading this fall…. Read more »

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Sunday Post – 9/20/2020

Sunday Post – 9/20/2020

The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! Last Week The treadmill arrived Monday. It took us more than 4 hours to set it… Read more »

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News & Notes – September 19, 2020

News & Notes – September 19, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News $3.2 million worth of rare stolen books have been found under a house in rural Romania. (Literary Hub) The books were stolen back in… Read more »

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