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New Release Tuesday 01/28/2025

It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your local library or indie book store to get more awareness and availability of these reads. Been Wrong So Long It…

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New Release Tuesday 01/20/2025

It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your local library or indie book store to get more awareness and availability of these reads. A Terrifying Brush…

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New Release Tuesday

It’s a great day to celebrate new books entering the world! Below are some new books out today and week. These are some I am excited to check out or they sound interesting. Have you heard about anything new coming out you are excited to check out? If you can, request these books at your local library or indie book store to get more awareness and availability of these reads. Death of the Author…

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Tuesday Book Recommendations

KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 Reading this right before a presidential election in the United States, where the votes are seemingly along gender lines, was both unsettling and encouraging. Unsettling because sexism and misogyny seem so uniform and pervasive no matter where you go. Encouraging because giving voice to what is happening can be an awakening to those reading. This is not just the story of…

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Books that have been made into media

It seems like more and more books are being made into movies and tv shows these days! Here are 3 to kick off 2024. Boy Swallows Universe is releasing as a series on Netflix.Set in Australia in the 80’s, it follows a young boy and his older brother caught in a chaotic and violent world. Caste inspired the movie Origin, now out in theatres everywhere. The book Caste was a non fiction work using…

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Brooklyn Bookstore Map

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Literary Quotes

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – Anne Shirley | Anne of Green Gables

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Frankly in Love

So it’s new Book Release Day!

I am super excited for Frankly in Love, a YA romantic comedy. As we head into fall, there is nothing like curling up with a hot cup of your favorite drink, a lit candle and a sweet romance. At least, that is one of my goals for September!

As a YABOTM affiliate, I am happy share this book with you as YA BOTM kicks off! I’ve been a member of BOTM for a while and was…

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The Regional Office is Under Attack

When I first heard of this book, the blurb was something like this: what if super powerful assassins stormed your office and you had a bionic arm?

While that is a very small part of the story, it does setup a powerful image in your head and it’s what made me pick up this audiobook.

This story is a rare one full of character study of amazing people in extraordinary situations with exciting action…

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Runaways On the Libby site for Brooklyn Public Library, you can see the latest recommendations from the librarians and this month there was an awesome focus on Pride Month.

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Linden Hills

Not too long ago, a friend of mine lent me a copy of the Women of Brewster Place. As I had never read it, I was excited to dive in. Before I started though, she told me – this isn’t my favorite book by Gloria Naylor, I think some of her other novels are better. After finishing the Women of Brewster Place – a novel that earned Naylor fame as the book won recognition and eventually became a movie,…

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New Release Tuesday: February 19th 2019

New Release Tuesday: February 19th 2019

What’s up my bookish babes?

This week of new releases is AMAZING! I honestly can’t wait for some of these and already started reading the new Alyssa Cole and WHEW is it good 🙂

Bangkok awakes to rain: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in translation: Ken Liu

Colonize This: Bushra Rehman, Daisy Hernandez

Immoral Code: Lillian Clark

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy:…

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New Release Tuesday: February 12th 2019

New Release Tuesday: February 12th 2019

Hi Ya’ll!

A new week, a new list of books out this week, so let’s jump into it!

Muslim: Zahia Rahmani

A Deadly Divide: Asuma Zehanat Khan

American Spy: Lauren Wilkinson

Death is Hard Work: Khaled Khalifa

Early Riser: Jasper Fforde

Elsewhere, Home: Leila Aboulela

How to Disappear: Akiko Busch

Lord: Joao Gilberto Noll

The Lost Children Archive: Valeria Luiselli

Territory of Light: Yuko Tsushima

The…

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New Release Tuesday: February 5, 2019

New Release Tuesday: February 5, 2019

Here comes one of the biggest and best releases of the year! Definitely setting some money and holds for these awesome books:

Best babysitters ever: Caroline Cala

Binit: The Complete Trilogy : Nnedi Okorafor

Black Leopard, Red Wolf : Marlon James

Bowlaway: Elizabeth McCracken

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones: Micah Dean Hicks

Brown, White, Black: Nishta J Mehra

Don’t Let Me Down: Erin Hosier

Fam…

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New Release Tuesday: January 29 2019

New Release Tuesday: January 29 2019

Another week, another batch of new releases!

99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne

A Curse so Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer

All the lives we ever lived – Katherine Smyth

At the Wolf’s Table – Rosella Postorino

Black is the Body – Emily Bernard

Bloom – Kevin Panetta

Craft-Fulness – Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin

Golden Child – Claire Adam

Here and Now and Then – Mike Chen

House of Stone – Novuyo…

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Book Challenges - 2018

Book Challenges – 2018

2018’s Book Challenges

  I actually am not actively participating in any challenges, but I am setting some goals for my reading life in 2018.

1.read down my bookshelf: I have so many unread books on my bookcase – it’s awful!

How did I do? TERRIBLE!! I have no impulse control over book buying, I need a good old fashioned book ban.

2.read 120 books this year – definitely ambitious

HAHAHA not even…

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Books = connecting the world around me

Books = connecting the world around me

*images from respective book websites

I saw something online, where a witchy technique of book magic, is used to discern advice for a moment in your life. I thought this was pretty cool, as I tend to correlate lots of things in my life to what I am reading at the moment or a book that stuck with me. A few weeks ago I saw the Nutcracker Rouge (http://companyxiv.com/nutcracker-rouge/) and…