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Happy Holidays!
Our blog will be quiet until Friday, as we’re spending these few days with our friends and family :). We’ll be back with more goodies and end of the year wrap up posts soon! In the meantime, enjoy your week! Happy Holidays!
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Sunday Funday: Harry Potter Season!
Happy Sunday my lovely bookworms! Harry Potter Season has officially started in my household (yes, HP gets it’s own season, don’t judge!). This weekend I marathon watched the last 4 movies, although I’ve seen every movies multiple times they never seem to get old. HP season is the beginning of the holidays for me. Rum cake baking, Christmas card making and HP watching season is my favorite of the year. When we get back from Thanksgiving travels it will be decorating time! This is our second year in the house but the first year we’re decorating and I’m pretty excited.…
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Photographic Ramblings
I stumbled upon this amazing website called Unsplash in my wanderings about the web. Every 10 days they put up 10 free stock photos that you can do with what you like. This gorgeous forest was put up by Kim Daniel and I instantly fell in love with it. Isn’t it lovely? I think I have wanderlust, but it just calls to me. Anyway I realized that I do so much reading, and so much writing about that reading, that sometimes I forget to just step back and take some time to ramble about other things :). Like the fact that my husband…
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Wednesday Musings
Happy Wednesday friends! Today you get an adorable squirrel stealing a pumpkin because 1) it’s almost Halloween and 2) cute animal pictures cheer me up. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays because I love seeing how creative people can be with their costumes. The more detail the better in my opinion, even though I’m pretty terrible at costumes myself. The costumes that don’t fit through doors always make me laugh because I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it must be to have to turn sideways through every doorway you walk through. Since it’s only one day a year I suppose…
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Sunday Funday
Terra Mystica Happy Sunday my lovely bookworms! I don’t know about you, but by the time Monday rolls around I almost always ♫ ♬ wish it were Sunday, ’cause that’s my Funday ♫ ♬ There are many reasons to love Sundays: the promise of a new week, the relaxation of a day off, or extra reading time. If you are like me, you enjoy several hobbies, Sunday can quickly become a board game filled, rum cake baking extravaganza Whenever I find myself waist-deep in a reading slump I tend to spend a day or two indulging myself with a host of other diversions…
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Please welcome my new co-blogger!
As you all may have noticed, things have gotten a little sparse over here. It’s gotten to the point where blogging had to scoot down the priorities ladder a bit. Still, I love this blog and want to see it flourish! I’ve been debating on whether or not to bring someone else on to provide you quality content, and I’ve finally decided it’s time. Please welcome my new co-blogger, Tina! Hello lovely readers! My name is Tina and I love books. The wonderful Jessica, who I’ve known for *gasp* 15 years now, has invited me to join the HDB family…
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Monday Musings
Picture of the day: Because whether this is a kitten, or a puppy, or some kind of adorable new puff ball pet? It’s absolutely adorable! How can you have a bad Monday when something that adorable is staring at you? *** I’ve slowly been settling back in to blogging more regularly over here. I’m still only making it a 3-4 day a week thing, but it’s feeling more natural. I think I’m getting back into the groove of wanting to write new content. To all of you still out there? You have no idea how much I always appreciate you…
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Thoughts on Thursday
Picture of the day: Donuts. Mmmm… donuts. That’s what’s on my mind today. So, once upon a time, a long time ago, in a blog far far away, there was a Jessica who actually loved posting in her book blog every day. She’d lay out posts weeks in advance, revel in the opportunity to create new content, and grimace only slightly when one line of HTML would throw off her whole formatted blog post. Then, she got a full time job. It’s been two years since then. I miss having more time to blog, but I also miss not actually…
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BookLikes – Still Loving It!
Last year, around this same time, I stumbled upon BookLikes as a new reader’s platform. I was enamored with the fact that it meshed together two of my favorite things: organization and interaction. You can read my original blog post to see my initial reactions, but I thought I’d check back in with you all and let you know how things are going. It’s been a year, and I’m still in love with this site. I do have a blog over there, along with my organized shelves. In fact, one of the reasons that I don’t blog over here as often…
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It’s time for SYNC Summer!
Have you heard? It’s SYNC Summer! I love this program, and I always promote it every year. I’m a bit late to the game this time, since I was gone the entire month of May, but there’s still plenty of free listening to be had! From now through August, SYNC is offering up two free listens each week. This Week’s Audiobooks: Download FREE pair here. Available June 5 – June 11. For more information, a schedule of upcoming books, and other goodies, check out the SYNC Summer website! Free audio books for your summer break. What could be better?