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Real Life (BBT)

Suggested by Barbara H:  I am paraphrasing from a friend’s Facebook wall her question: “How would a teen-age boy who is going to work with his hands ever use Literature of England in his work?” The age-old “How am I going to use this in real life?” question. How...
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Heavy (BBT)

What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school?For pleasure, Tamora Pierce’s Bloodhound. It was huge, long and very, very entertaining. I was officially hooked on the Beka Cooper series from the...
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Firsts (BBT)

Do you remember the first book you bought for yourself? Or the first book you checked out of the library? What was it and why did you choose it? A Horse Named Mayonnaise by Joanne Chitwood Nowack. I picked it because I could read the dust jacket and for the picture of...
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Annual Review (BBT)

What’s the best book you read this year? Worst? Favorite? Best–My Utmost for His Highest–Oswald Chambers Worst–Hmm, it’s so bad I can’t recall.  ~_^ Favorite–Eats, Shoots and Leaves. ^_^ Happy New Year from Fiction...
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Lousy… (BBT)

Inspired by this post: Do you ever crave reading lousy books? Once in awhile. Ah, le gasp! : p Yes, sometimes it is really refreshing to just read something that is horrible, downright irritating, bothersome, troublesome and has so much…ridiculousness in it,...