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Read All Day: February

What a month! Have you read any of these? If so, let me know what you thought in the comments. I’d love to hear what you’ve been reading. Share the love.

1. Where She Went by Gayle Forman

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You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction

2. My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

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One of my great hobbies in life is feeling sorry for myself. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when I suspect I have been wronged. Oh, the energy!

Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Humor

3. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it’s like I go back into the dream.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction

4. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

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At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction

5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Genre: Mystery, Classics, Fiction

6. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

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After you get stung, you can’t get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.

Genre: Historical Fiction

7. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

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It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult

8. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

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I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry…

Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir

9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary

10. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

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We’re all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That’s life.

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction

11. My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella

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Every time you see someone’s bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.

Genre: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary

12. The Invisible Life of Ivan Insaenko by Scott Stambach

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Don’t die before you’re dead. And if you do, let it be the good kind…when the only part of you that dies is who you were supposed to be.

Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary

13. Becoming by Michelle Obama

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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.

Genre: Memoir, Nonfiction

Now, Go. See. Do.

~meemish

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Read To Your Baby

16+ Must Have Board Books for your Baby’s Library

So, you’re expecting. Congratulations! Now let’s talk about what you need for your baby’s literary success. It’s never to soon to start reading to your baby.

1. Sandra Boynton Books-Get them all! Here are my favorites though.

– Belly Button Book

Belly Button Book

-The GOING TO BED BOOK

The Going To Bed Book

– Moo, Baa, La La La!

Moo, Baa, La La La!

– Pajama Time!

Pajama Time!

– A to Z

A To Z

– Opposites

Opposites

– Horns to Toes and in Between

Horns To Toes And In Between

– Doggies

Doggies

– BUT Not the Hippopotamus

But Not The Hippopotamus

– Blue Hat, Green Hat

Blue Hat, Green Hat

2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight Moon

3. Put Me In The Zoo by Robert Lopshire

Put Me In The Zoo

4. Are you My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Are You My Mother?

5. Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman

Do, Dog. Go!

6. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

7. Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

Little Blue Truck

8. Mommy Hugs by Anne Gutman and George Hallensleben

Mommy Hugs

9. The Napping House by Audrey Wood

The Napping House

10. Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Silly Sally

11. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

Good Night, Gorilla

12. That’s Not My Kitten Usborne Books

There is a large series of these books and they are all great.

That's Not My Kitten

13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

14. BabyLit

BabyLIt

15. Mini Masters

Mini Masters

16. There’s A Wocket In My Pocket! by Dr. Suess

There's A Wocket In My Pocket!

 

Now, Go. See. Do.

~meemish

 

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