From Booking Through Thursday:
It’s an old question, but a good one . . . What were your favorite books this year?
List as many as you like … fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, science-fiction, business, travel, cookbooks … whatever the category. But, really, we’re all dying to know. What books were the highlight of your reading year [...]

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Merry Christmas, everyone! The Superfast Three are snuggled up in our apartment with my parents and my younger brother watching Fargo and waiting to get hungry for round 2 of the Irish ham we enjoyed last night.
I got a few books for Christmas this year, fewer than usual because I asked for clothes to [...]

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Synopsis:
An anthology of short stories about elves.
Review:
The Fair Folk was put together in 2005 by the Science Fiction Book Club, and consists of stories written about elves and their kin from some luminaries in the field. I enjoyed each one immensely, differing as they do in style and tone.
“UOUS” by Tanith Lee takes the [...]

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Found here. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read.
75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World
Selected by members of the Women’s National Book Association in Observance of Their 75th Anniversary
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HT: Grasping for the Wind
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Two mini-obsessions of mine documented in one video:

HT: Jim Emerson
And by the way, I’ve totally mastered reading while breastfeeding. Blogging is another thing altogether–long posts have to wait for naptime, because I have limited patoence with typing one-handed.
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Synopsis:
The first of two anthologies featuring short stories by George RR Martin, ranging from fantasy to science fiction to horror to genre hybrids.
Review:
I am one of those readers who had never heard of George RR Martin before encountering A Game of Thrones, book one in his Song of Ice and Fire series. [...]

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Via BookGal–I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read.
1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
2. Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
3. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
4. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5. Virginia Woolf, The Waves
6. Virginia Woolf, Orlando
7. [...]

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Thanks, Book-a-rama!
1. Do you remember learning to read? How old were you?
I don’t. I was very young.
2. What do you find most challenging to read?
Theory & philosophy. Christian Metz nearly did me in during grad school.
3. What are your library habits?
I’m all about online requests.
4. Have your library habits changed since you were [...]

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I have a year-end wrap up at House Next Door.
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