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Literally Comic
Literally Comic
Literally Comic

Literally

Literally 5.00/5 (100.00%) 3 votes
 
 
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handfuls of bone
handfuls of bone
handfuls of bone

Review: Handfuls of Bone by Monica Kidd

Before I review the contents of this book, I need to tell you a little bit about the design of this book. Monica Kidd’s second poetry collection, Handfuls of Bone, was published by Gaspereau Press, a Canadian publishing c...
 
New Reads
 
summerreadingprogram
summerreadingprogram
summerreadingprogram

What’s a Summer Reading Program?

Every year public libraries all over the US are funded through tax dollars to organize events and interactive programs that engage the public to read more. It helps keep kids think critically and battles the dreaded “summ...

 
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IMG_8385
IMG_8385

In Praise of Bookmarks

At last count I had 106 bookmarks. Approximately 31 of those I found – mostly ones that had been abandoned in books I shelved during my library and bookshop jobs over the past nine years. Twenty-one are from libraries and 19 fr...
 
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much ado about nothing
much ado about nothing
much ado about nothing

Much Ado About Whedon

  So, does anything Joss Whedon touches not turn to gold? The man behind the best thing to happen to TV ever (aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has brought one of Shakespeare’s best plays, Much Ado About Nothing, back to...
 
Book Giveaways
 
Tendrils of Life
Tendrils of Life
Tendrils of Life

Book Giveaway: Tendrils of Life

Tendrils of Life: A story of love, loss, and survival in the turmoil of the Korean War By: Owen Choi The Details! Owen Choi is giving this book away from July 12th to July 14th on Amazon. This is a free Kindle eBook. No registr...

 
 
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Scan-133
Scan-133

Book Review: No One (Personne) by Gwenaëlle Aubry

What first intrigued me about No One (Personne) was the first line of the back cover synopsis: “No One is the portrait of a man without a true self.”  I really love a book that explores and plays with layers of iden...
 
Book Quotes
 
Diet and Exercise
Diet and Exercise
Diet and Exercise

Book Diet and Exercise

“Any reading habit requires a balanced diet and exercise, or else we may lost the ability to walk to the library.” -William Yatscoff Rate this post
 
 
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Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen
Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen
Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen is a wacky comedy that involves the same detective from Hiaasen's other books, Yancey, but this time he's been demoted to food inspector on the island. Things go from suspicious to weird when Yancey t...

 
 
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haroldfry
haroldfry
haroldfry

Review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), Rachel Joyce’s debut novel, is the deceptively simple tale of a sixty-something-year-old man who steps out of his Devon home to mail a letter but ends up walking to Berwick-on-Tweed...