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EXPeriencing Another Goodreads Challenge
Another year, another Goodreads challenge I’ve failed. Okay, that’s a little harsh. The past two years, I’ve been reading the final book in my challenge when the clock struck midnight. Until I looked back at last year’s post, I thought I had set the same goal this year of 25, but it turns out I…
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EXPeriencing ‘The City of Brass’ by S. A. Chakraborty
Cover image via Amazon. I know reading and travel quotes can be a bit cliche, but reading a great book can sometimes take you on journeys that rival those in real life. I found just that in S. A. Chakraborty’s novel The City of Brass. It’s an adventure in time, religion, and the fantastic, and I…
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EXPeriencing ‘Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection’
Cover image via NaughtyDog. There weren’t a ton of games I felt I was missing out on by having an Xbox 360 instead of a PS3, but the Uncharted series was one of them. I knew they had Assassin’s Creed-like puzzles and an Indiana Jones-like story line. What’s not to like about that? When Terry and I got a…
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EXPeriencing ‘An Ember in the Ashes’ by Sabaa Tahir
Cover image via. You know when you read a new Harry Potter book for the first time and you just couldn’t stop reading? All the way through the night, you kept turning pages because you just had to find out what happened next. Rarely did a chapter end where you thought, Yeah, I can put the bookmark…
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EXPeriencing ‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman
Cover image via, which is a helluva way to open a book. Thank you, airport bookstores. Not much is worse than having a long layover or delay and running out of things to read. Last month, I had a several-hour layover in O’Hare before heading home to Indy. I’d finished the book I brought with…
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EXPeriencing ‘You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)’ by Felicia Day
Cover photo via. If you’re a gamer or on the internet often, you know who Felicia Day is. If you’re not, here’s an introduction, in her own words: Hi, I’m Felicia Day. I’m an actor. That quirky chick in that one science fiction show? You know the one I’m talking about. I’m never on the…
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EXPeriencing Wonder Woman
Cover image via. Caution: There’s a spoiler below. My husband made me cry because of Wonder Woman. Don’t worry, they were happy tears. We saw Wonder Woman this afternoon, and were both blown away. Not only was it a great story with great acting and awesome fight scenes and explosions that make all good superhero movies worthwhile,…
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EXPeriencing ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik
Cover image via. Who doesn’t love a good, mindless Buzzfeed quiz? At worst it’ll eat up a few minutes as you’re waiting for your Starbucks order. At best, you’ll get a killer book suggestion. It was through a Buzzfeed quiz that I discovered Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It was something like, “Pretend to Write a Book…
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EXPeriencing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood [The Novel]
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Cover image via. I had always heard Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was a disconcerting dystopian novel. Nothing encouraged me to pick it up, though. It was simply a book written before I was born about some hypothetical “What if.” And then Donald Trump was elected president, a man who multiple women have accused of sexual assault,…
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EXPeriencing ‘Swing Time’ by Zadie Smith
Cover image (and a more comprehensive review) via. As an introduction to Zadie Smith, Swing Time may not have been the best choice. While I did enjoy the novel, Goodreads comments tell me it’s not as good as her earlier White Teeth or On Beauty. That said, as a standalone novel without the comparison to Smith’s other works, I…
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