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Happy New Year! A Round-Up of 2009′s Best Books
>As a persnickety librarian, I must insist on the decade’s not being over till Dec. 31, 2010, but I can still point out three best books of the decade lists that have been posted prematurely: The...
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Audiobooks for Everyone
Booklist audiobook blogger Mary Burkey has posted a list of family-friendly audiobooks perfect for car trips. For older kids and teens, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division...
View ArticleBest of 2010 Book Lists
>The best of 2010 lists have started! A music and culture blog, Largehearted Boy, will help you keep up with daily updates to a list of “Best of 2010” book lists, from specific lists like Chess Book...
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This Must Be the Place for Great Books: Massachusetts Must-Reads
A friendly summer challenge from the Massachusetts Center for the Book: Read and discuss the 12 Must-Read titles in each category (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/YA) before winners are...
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Listen Up! Audiobook Week Day 3 #JIAM
Midweek Meme for Day 3 of Audiobook Week hosted by Devourer of Books Current/most recent audiobook The Untelling by Tayari Jones, narrated by Michele Blackmon (Chivers Sound Library, 2005) Impressions...
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2013 Massachusetts Must-Reads
The list of 2013 Massachusetts Must-Read titles has been announced! I’m looking forward to the fun Speed-Dating with Authors event at the Massachusetts Library Association’s Annual Conference on April...
View ArticleSame Old Story – Best Books List Snubs Female Writers
>This blog post at Politics Weekly is a good addition to the flap in the blogosphere about the Publisher’s Weekly list of 10 Best Books of 2009 that didn’t include a single book by a woman. The...
View Article2013 Favorites — Audiobooks
I read and listened to a lot more books in 2013 than I wrote reviews for. I think 2013 was even worse for that than 2012. But I did try to keep a list of top favorites as I went along, so at least the...
View Article2013 Favorites — Books
Ever since I began blogging about books, I admired everyone else’s year-end stats reports and annual round-ups before finally managing a Favorite Reads of 2012 list last year. I also started keeping...
View Article2014 Favorites — Books & Audiobooks in One Big List
These books weren’t all published in 2014 and, since I haven’t read most of this year’s prize-winners, I don’t claim that they’re the best of this year’s crop of new books, either. They’re just the...
View Article2015 Favorites — Books
Links go to my reviews (if I wrote one), either here on the blog or on LibraryThing (baystateRA). 2015 Favorite Books All Together Now by Gill Hornby Little Brown, 2015 A feel-good story for the heart...
View Article2015 Favorites — Literary Fiction Audiobooks #audiobooks
Looking for a good listen? Here are my favorite audiobooks of 2015! Links go to my reviews (if I wrote one) – either here on the blog or on LibraryThing (baystateRA). Clicking on the images will take...
View Article2015 Favorites — Literary Fiction Audiobooks #audiobooks
Looking for a good listen? Here are my favorite audiobooks of 2015! Links go to my reviews (if I wrote one) – either here on the blog or on LibraryThing (baystateRA). Clicking on the images will take...
View ArticleBook Lists: Best of 2020 Cookbooks #weekendcooking
The time for gift giving may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to buy yourself a new cookbook! The time for end of the year lists is here, and maybe you received a gift card or didn’t...
View ArticleTop Ten Favorite Books of 2020
I’m so bad at keeping good reading records! The end of the year is when this becomes most obvious, when so many other book bloggers bring out their amazing lists and annual reading stats, complete with...
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