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Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.”

~Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

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Staircase Wit

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown (Guest Review)
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Adventures in reading, running and working from home

Catching up with nonfiction reviews from my 20 Books of Summer – Rebekah Pierre (ed.) – Free Loaves on Fridays” and Karen Yin – “The Conscious Style Guide”
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Reading Matters

‘Nevada’ by Imogen Binnie
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Four Libyan Women Writers You Should Read
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Clothes In Books

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Canadian Bookworm

The Prisoner
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Reading in Translation

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The Dusty Bookcase

Looking Back on Lot's Wife
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Stuck in a Book

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Pickle Me This

A Literary Bouquet
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BooksPlease

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
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Review 2762: The Clocks
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Whither classical music?
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Tales from the Reading Room

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TOP TEN TUESDAY: Series I am Reading
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Buried In Print

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Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven
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Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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As if it was something slightly separate from yourself
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Geranium Cat's Bookshelf

Olivia Atwater, The Witchwood Knot
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Rose City Reader

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Tim Hortons in Books Read in 2026
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The Books of 2025
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OnFiction

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Launch Day: The Lady Between Thorns
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The Middle Stage

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my tragic right hip

Updates: Where to Find Me?
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Shelf Love

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So Many Books

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TBR 313

"Two Women in Love and War"
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Leaves & Pages

Ontario Gothic: Morgan’s Castle by Jan Hilliard (1964)
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A Garden Carried in the Pocket

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger
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The Misfortune Of Knowing

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A Work in Progress

Thinking about Second Half of 2023
3 years ago
Harriet Devine's Blog

The Secret Vanguard by Michael Innes (1940)
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Roof Beam Reader

The Folio Society’s Book Illustration Award 2023
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January 29, 2023, Sunday afternoon -- Reading Derek Sivers
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Unruly Reader

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Falling by T. J. Newman
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Beyond Eden Rock

Looking Beyond Eden Rock
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Reading Indie Newsletter
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Jill and the Lost Ponies by Jane Badger
6 years ago
Nonsuch Book

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The Literary Gathering

Feb 2020: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
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Leafing Through Life

Catch a Falling Star by Kim Culbertson
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Brown Paper

The Great Indian Curry Hack
7 years ago
Great White North

Barren Lives (1963)
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Desktop Retreat

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Savidge Reads

The Women’s Prize Longlist 2019
7 years ago
Suko's Notebook

Wondrous Words Wednesday: Tsundoku
7 years ago
Estella's Revenge

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Books & Monika

Flytta!
8 years ago
The Library Ladder

Wherein the Library Ladder is dusted off and rolled out for blogging once again...
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Orpheus Sings the Guitar Electric

Books Read 2016
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Tea leaves

A Highter Loyalty, and some thoughts.
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In Laurie's Mind

What's in a Name Challenge 2018
8 years ago
a Fair Substitute for Heaven

One of the Best Books I have Ever Read: The Traitor Prince
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For the Love of Books

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The Last Bookstore in LA
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The Literary Omnivore

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The Written World

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Going For Gold
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