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My Year in Books
Happy 2019! I know that cliches say we're only supposed to be looking forward instead of back in the past, but now that I've had some...
Erin Zaranec
Jan 1, 20192 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 96-100
Nina Browning is living the good life. Her husband sold his tech company and she's now in the Nashville elite. Tom Volpe is a single dad...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 91-95
Clay Johnson gets a job at a bookstore when he soon realizes how many secrets are hidden in the stacks. The customers are few and far...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 86-90
David Adam lives with the fear of contracting AIDS. He knows it's not rational and not a true possibility in his life. Adam writes about...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 31, 20181 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 81-85
Willa Drake leads a life that is comfortable and... fine, but that's probably the strongest word she can use to define her life. After...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 76-80
David Hedge's finds his life coming apart at the seams. His rental house may be going on the market, his boyfriend left him, and his job...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 71-75
A book that starts with a simple dinner party leads to more twists and turns than I could have ever imagined. Anne and Marco have one of...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 66-70
This book was a huge hit this year... it was featured on nearly every Bookstagram I follow, countless blogs, review websites, and best...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 61-65
Friends and former bandmates Elizabeth, Andrew, and Zoe have seen each other from college to marriage and full-fledged adulthood. Now,...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 30, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 56-60
So... considering I couldn't even remember reading this book... I feel like I can't even summarize it for y'all. Here's a link to it's...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 28, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 51-55
After the death of her life-long best friend, the separation from her husband, and the moody teenage years of her daughter - Isabel...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 28, 20183 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 46-50
Hope Jahren is a badass. Through the course of her career, she's built three laboratories from the ground up. She studies trees, flowers,...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 27, 20182 min read
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2018 Reads: Books 41-45
Wow, wow, wow. Nina Riggs' was an amazing writer, storyteller, wife, friend, mother, I could go on... She writes through a battle with...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 26, 20182 min read
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2018 reads: Books 36-40
I heard all of the hype about Ng's writing after Little Fires Everywhere became a hit . I started reading Everything I Never Told You...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 25, 20182 min read
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2018 reads: Books 31-35
I heard so much hype around this book for years and figured it was time to check it out for myself. Written from the point of view of...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 22, 20183 min read
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2018 reads: Books 26-30
Wow, wow, and wow. This book was a random pick up from the library and I ended up learning so much from it. I did not know the story of...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 22, 20182 min read
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A Bookworm's Delight: Gift Guide
Looking for the perfect gift for the book lover in your life? I searched the city for some local makers and creators who have created the...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 11, 20181 min read
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Best of the Bookshelf
With the year coming to an end, I'm SO close to my goal of reading 100 books (only 5 reads away, to be exact!) While I'm still posting...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 6, 20187 min read
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2018 reads: Books 21-25
This book wasn't exactly what I thought it would be, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good. I think that Rowe's writing really saved the...
Erin Zaranec
Dec 2, 20182 min read
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2018 reads: Books 16-20
This book was so interesting to me because it took me deeper into a land a culture that I don't know much about. Ahmed wrote honestly...
Erin Zaranec
Nov 30, 20182 min read
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