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Have you seen the wonderful 2001 film Amelie*? The scene below entered my mind yesterday as I drove to work listing to the “Ten … Continue reading Bibliophile Euphoria →

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Crenshaw is a young adult novel by author Katherine Applegate that examines food insecurity, financial insecurity, and housing instability through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy named Jackson and...

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Welcome fair June! Looking back I did a lot of things in the month of May: read a handful of books, took a day trip to one of my favorite Missouri towns and walked the Katy Trail, started trail r...

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I started the #VentureForth Summer Reading Program last year when I found my love of reading fueled by an increase in pandemic-inspired “free time”. I was reading more often and it led to nos...

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Elsie Bainbridge knew that life was looking up. She had married a wealthy, eligible bachelor, was pregnant with child, and would soon join her husband at his ancestral home, The Bridge, where he ...

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The Lusitania is sinking, victim of a torpedo attack, and an American woman, Jane Finn, is pressed into service when an agent passes her a secret document that could be the undoing of Great Brita...

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I was familiar with the name “Nero Wolfe” yet had never read a story nor seen an adaptation featuring author Rex Stout’s famous overweight detective. When I came across Tracey’s post Top ...

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