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May 052013
 
April 2013 Reading Wrap-Up

In April I read a total of 14 books, 9 of which were print/ebooks and 5 of which were audio. This ended up being a total of about 2800 pages and 54 hours of audio. This is a bit disappointing after the old days of getting to 15 or 16 print/ebooks and 5 or 6 [...]

May 022013
 
<em>The Roots of Betrayal</em> by James Forrester - Giveaway

I had a lot of fun reading James Forrester’s first novel, Sacred Treason. Forrester is the pen name of Dr. Ian Mortimer, a historian whose nonfiction The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England I also very much enjoyed. Well, Mortimer-as-Forrester is back with a second book in the Sacred Treason series: The Roots of Betrayal. [...]

May 012013
 
<em>The World's Strongest Librarian</em> by Josh Hanagarne - Book Review

The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne Published by Gotham, an imprint of Penguin Raise your hand if your favorite librarian is a weigh-lifting Mormon with Tourette Syndrome. Nobody? Then clearly you have not yet read Josh Hanagarne’s memoir, The World’s Strongest Librarian. Josh Hanagarne is the 6’7″ librarian working for the Salt Lake City [...]

Apr 302013
 
<em>Double Time</em> by Jane Roper - Giveaway

Hey, remember about this time last year when I was loving on Jane Roper’s Double Time: How I Survived – and Mostly Thrived – Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins? Being pregnant with twin girls of my own at the time, I found it reassuring to read someone else’s account of motherhood of [...]

Apr 282013
 
Sunday Salon - Readathon

So, for the first time since Daniel (who is almost 4, by the way) was just a few months old I was able to participate in the Readathon this weekend. I got to head to an empty condo with my lovely ladies Michelle from That’s What She Read and Julie from Girls Just Reading for [...]