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Book Tour Review: Stepping to a New Day
Like most boys, he'd grown up believing girls were emotional and fragile little things. Since moving to Kansas it was obvious the women he'd interacted with didn't know that....
Top Ten Books with Fewer Than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads
I am just going to copy/paste the directions for this one from The Broke and the Bookish: Thanks to Lenore at Celebrity Readers for suggesting this topic as a new way to talk...
Diversity on the Shelf Link Up: July 2016
June had the most posted reviews so far (27 as I'm typing this!). Let's make July EVEN BETTER, yes? Yes. Also, please encourage each other by clicking on links and reading and...
Top Ten Books I Have No Recollection of Reading
It's freebie week! I've been talking a lot lately how I've read so many books that I can't remember all of them. This post is inspired by the first book on my list, which I...
site maintenance & its effect on Diversity on the Shelf link ups
I have switched my hosting, which means that (a) my site looks different and (b) a bunch of other stuff is wonky, so please bear with me as I try to facilitate the changes....
It’s Monday! What are you reading? (6/20/16)
So I realized I did the thing where I read comments and thought about what I was going to reply but never actually replied but thought I had actually typed up my replies. So...
It’s Monday & I’m Never Going to Finish All the Books on My Shelf
No, seriously. I still have ten left in the stack that I want to get to before the move, and I don't think it's going to happen. Also, reading them is starting to feel like...
Audiobook Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them that I never knew that people like Dante existed in the world,...
Ten Reasons I Love Teaching Community College
1. The classroom is my stage, and I am the star. And those suckers, er, students are stuck with me shining for 50-75 minutes per class session. Aren't they lucky? 2. No...