Tag: Books
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Magic in the Ordinary and Why All Children’s Book Settings are Fantastical

My journey as a writer has been a treacherous trek through the mines of reviews and criticisms in search of my own narrative voice. A journey I am still plowing through. I was never the reader who sat comfortably in one genre. I read a little of everything and my own stories vary from realistic…
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I Visited Dublin and Fell in Love with all the Books

After an eight hour flight, I landed in Ireland to enjoy the beginning of summer vacation. When I handed my passport to the customs officer, he was skeptical of my projected ten day visit in Dublin. “That’s too long,” he insisted. “You only need two days in Dublin. Maybe three. Then, you need to go…
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My Summer Reading List

The advantage of working in a school library is that I keep the excitement I had as a child for holidays and the glorified summer vacation. My TBR stacks up during the school year and I have high hopes that I will magically be able to read a book a day during the summer months.…
