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Comfort Reads (42nd Bookworms Carnival)

December 9, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

Comfort reads: perfect reading for a cold winter’s night!

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Incoming! Books About Words

October 22, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles some of the recent new book arrivals at the Ms. Bookish household. This edition: Books about words.

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Review: The Guinea Pig Diaries, by A.J. Jacobs

September 10, 2009 Books and Reading

Excerpt from the book jacket:
In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And which drives A.J.’s patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.)
I loved The Guinea Pig Diaries, by A.J. Jacobs. It came into my life just [...]

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Reading: The Opposite of Fate, by Amy Tan

August 29, 2009 Books and Reading

I am in the midst of getting the house tidied up, as we’re having friends over for dinner tonight – I love the end result of this process of cleaning and tidying, because it means not only a nice clean space in which to entertain, but also a nice clean house for at least a [...]

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Friday Finds – Lots of Fantasies

February 6, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s time for Friday Finds again! Here are the books I’ve discovered this week, that I’d love to add to my TBR pile:
Fantasy/Young adult: Family Bones, by Kimberly Raiser (discovered at Marta’s Meanderings)
Young adult: Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta (discovered at The Children’s Literature Book Club)
Children’s book: Indigo’s Star, by Hilary McKay (discovered at Book [...]

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Friday Finds: Essays and Story Collections, Anyone?

December 12, 2008 Books and Reading

I’m not even going to say, “my goodness, the week has just flown by – it’s Friday Finds already!” because I suspect I might be saying that every Friday. (But it has flown by, don’t you think? Especially with the holidays looming ahead of us. And Ms. Bookish hasn’t bought a single gift yet …)
It’s [...]

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Mailbox Monday: An eclectic mix

November 24, 2008 Books and Reading

It was a busy week this past week for incoming books, with, it seems like, a little bit of everything. I’ve already mentioned some of the books that arrived this past week, in last week’s Friday Finds post, so I won’t mention them again here (including some romance/chick lit – I just noticed there’s none [...]

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