Category: Books
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Kay’s Library: Grieving and Reading
My life has changed immeasurably since the last post I wrote. About two weeks ago, my great-grandmother died unexpectedly. While my family’s grief has been profound, having none of us ever dealt with such a major loss before, there has also been lots of love and beauty in the process of letting go. In a…
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Bloganuary 10: The Book That Changed My Life
Books have changed my life many times over the years. This year, after much spiritual searching, I found my faith again. The words of the Bible, but also many Christian devotional writers, have been a guide to me. I have also derived a lot of healing and knowledge from philosophical texts, and poetry. As a…
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Bloganuary 6: Why I Write
Today’s Bloganuary prompt asks, “Why do you write?” I have been asking myself this question, too. My mother instilled a love of reading in me at a young age, and almost as long as I have been an avid reader I have dreamed of being a writer. My early favorites as a reader were the…
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Bloganuary 4: Treasures
So far, I am really enjoying the way Bloganuary’s prompts ask me to dig deeper as a writer and a person, to ponder the prompt and come up with an earnest response. Today’s prompt asks, what is a treasure that’s been lost? For me, for a long time, it was my love of reading. I…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #4, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
There are few things more familiar and instinctual to me than heading to the manga shelves on a trip to one of my favorite bookstores. As a Millenial, I grew up during the global popularity explosion of manga and anime franchises like Dragonball, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, and Bleach, as well as the feature…
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The Perfect Binge #2: AMC’s Interview With the Vampire
Before streaming channels like Netflix even existed, cable television was the nexus of what has been called the “golden age of television” during the early aughts and 2010s. I loved standout dramas like Lost, Heroes, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, and Game of Thrones, which helped define the phrase “event television.” These dramas brought a…
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The Perfect Binge #1: Bridgerton Season 2
Here at the blog, I began reviewing books that I have recently read. Now, I’ve decided to give streaming shows that I have enjoyed the same treatment, and recommend them here! The first entry in what I’ll call ‘The Perfect Binge’ is season two of Netflix’s Shondaland drama, Bridgerton. Bridgerton: Regency Romance Reinvented I’ve long…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #3, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
This year, I have been trying to make positive choices and get to know myself better. That means going back to basics, and doing the things I love. My mother fostered a love of reading and books in me and my siblings at a young age, and that love has endured. I loved analyzing classic…
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Kay’s Library: Book Club Pick #2, Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
This month’s book club pick is much different from last month’s pick, Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin. Copies of that particular epic fantasy are probably flying off shelves rather faster now that the HBO tv series based on it, “The House of the Dragon” has premiered. While I love tucking into my…
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My Kindle Vella Publishing Experience (So Far)
I’ve heard it said that we all have at least one book in us. As a teenager, I avidly consumed Anne Rice’s books, and would marvel at the italicized list of her books in the front matter of each paperback. I would check them off one by one as I read them, and dream of…
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