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Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have two year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

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“There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John

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Bingo Square: Repeat (Music) He’s a music legend, what else can you say? This book takes the reader through the entirety of Elton John’s life, from his early years in the London suburb of Pinner, where he is a lonely only child with a disinterested father (and parents who really shouldn’t be together anymore), to his early shows in America that rocket him to stardom, his drug addiction and getting clean and his family life that he has now. Written in a way that you […]

The ties that bind us

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel

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Bingo Square: Music Gavin is a little lost. After making it as a journalist in New York, his girlfriend has left him and he spirals into making up quotes for his stories. Found out and fired, he heads back to his hometown in Florida, humiliated. He also suffers terribly from heat stroke, an affliction he’s escaped on leaving. Taking a job with his sister, she shows him a photo of a child that resembles her and has Gavin’s ex-girlfriend’s last name. The timeline fits. Is […]

Return to the Arena

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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Bingo Square: Green Suzanne Collins is back with another book in the Hunger Games world. This time it’s a prequel, following Coriolanus Snow – later President Snow, of course – as he navigates the world of the Capitol. 18 Years old, the once glorious house of Snow is struggling. Their money is gone, and all that’s left is their penthouse apartment and their class status. Snow needs to make it to graduation and go to university in an attempt to keep himself, his grandmother and […]

A love letter to a farm

The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

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Hilarie Burton was a working actress not feeling particularly fulfilled by the roles she was being offered and dreaming of escape to Paris when she met actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. After a pretty whirlwind courtship, they were having a baby and she was often alone with a newborn in LA, lonely and missing family and friends. After falling in love with a town in New York, they decide to take a risk and move out to a cabin, a doer-upper that Hilarie throws her passion […]

“Some things are jest too big to fergive.”

Raging Star by Moira Young

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Saba and her crew are in the endgame with DeMalo and New Eden. Becoming a leader in the resistance, Saba plans to undermine DeMalo and destroy what he is trying to build. But after an attack goes wrong and DeMalo threatens her, Saba has a week to take him down or risk everyone she loves. It’s going to take something more than a scrappy band of warriors to beat him. Saba’s new plan is radical, and there is dissent among the ranks. It’s going to […]



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