Tag: book lists
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#MustReadin2017: An Experiment in Crowdsourcing My Reading Life
Much as I love #MustRead lists and much as I love the #MustRead community, I told myself I was going to sit 2017 out. After all, I have a dismal record when it comes to actually reading the books on my annual #MustRead lists. I think it has something to do with my resistance to…
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Top 10 YA Novels That Make Me Laugh: Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish blogging meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Originally, I titled this post “Top 10 YA Novels That Will Make You Laugh.” But humor is subjective, and my laughs won’t be yours. This one will make you cry, too. That’s just how it is with YA. A deserted island…
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Top 10 Books I’ve Recently Added to My TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today’s topic is one I could probably post a list for every single Tuesday: 10 new books I’ve recently added to my TBR list? You mean since yesterday, right? Dave Eggers has a nonfiction picture book AND it’s about why the Golden…
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Top 15 Picture Books of 2015
Photo CC-By duncan c Thanks to a picture book reading binge my son went on during the summer, where we burned through 8 or 12 books a day, I read several hundred picture books in 2015. There were so many great ones, it just wasn’t possible to narrow it down to a Top 10. Well, I’m…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time
I’m going off script this week and borrowing an older topic for Top Ten Tuesday, because I am not organized enough as a reader to tackle this week’s topic: Top 10 Debut Authors Who Have Me Looking Forward to Their Sophomore Novel or Top 10 Sophomore Novels That I Loved Just as Much as the…
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15 Diverse Middle-Grade and Young Adult Graphic Novels #GNCelebration
I’m joining A Year of Reading, Kid Lit Frenzy, Assessment in Perspective, and other bloggers in a monthlong celebration of what is possibly my favorite format, graphic novels. Every Thursday throughout the month of October, bloggers throughout the kidlitosphere will celebrate graphic novels. To learn more about this event, check out the Top 10 Reasons…
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Top 10 Graphic Novels for People Who Don’t Read Graphic Novels #GNCelebration
I’m joining A Year of Reading, Kid Lit Frenzy, Assessment in Perspective, and other bloggers in a monthlong celebration of what is possibly my favorite format, graphic novels. Every Thursday throughout the month of October, bloggers throughout the kidlitosphere will celebrate graphic novels. To learn more about this event, check out the Top 10 Reasons…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 7 Books to Read If You Like The One and Only Ivan
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. One of the biggest book matchmaking challenges I face in my Children’s Literature class is what to give next to the student who loves The One and Only Ivan. For many of the students in this class, The One and Only Ivan…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I’d Want on a Desert Island
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s Top Ten list is a freebie, so I checked out the archives of previous topics that I missed. My eye was immediately caught by Top Ten Books I’d Want on a Desert Island, even though it makes me feel rather…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 YA Characters Who Just Didn’t Click With Me
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. For some reason, YA is the genre where I struggle most to connect with the characters. It isn’t a matter of likeability–I definitely don’t require that my characters be likeable. But sometimes I think I’m supposed to click with characters in YA…
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