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In a Weird Confluence of Events…I Now Get to Thank Ellesfena!

December 11, 2020 by Melina 4 Comments

Well, well, well…what a surprise! Ellesfena and I got each other in this gift exchange! At first I was completely confused because it’s been 84 years of me being in my house (or at school teaching) and I don’t know what the outside world is like these days.  I am so excited for all three books but particularly Daughter of Smoke & Bone…my son who never reads despite my avid harping on him (that totally works, right?) scuttled away with The Mysterious Benedict Society (don’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cannonball Gift Exchange, CBR Gift Exchange, ellesfena

Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cannonball Gift Exchange, CBR Gift Exchange, ellesfena ·
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Thank you emmalita

December 7, 2018 by Caitlin_D 4 Comments

Cannonball gift exchange is one of my favorite Christmastime traditions and this year my not so secret Santa was our Bingo organizer extraordinaire emmalita! Thank you for Ellie Kemper’s My Squirrel Days (my library doesn’t have it!), a Michelle Obama coloring book and the Kindle edition of Snoop Dogg’s From Crook to Cook which I did not know I needed but am super excited about.

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food Tagged With: Cannonball Gift Exchange, Ellie Kemper, From Crook to Cook, Michelle Obama, My Squirrel Days, Snoop Dogg

Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food · Tags: Cannonball Gift Exchange, Ellie Kemper, From Crook to Cook, Michelle Obama, My Squirrel Days, Snoop Dogg ·
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