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Farewell, Life's Library

Farewell, Life’s Library

When I first joined Life’s Library, I thought I was just joining a book club. What I found was a community. A community who not only liked to read and discuss books, but who supported each other during the difficult times and cheered with each other during the good times. We sent money to Haiti and Sierra Leone, and laughed at Paul Farmer’s jokes. Traveled to the center of the earth with…

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Spark Books

Recently, I finished reading Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear. This is the current book in Life’s Library, the book club that has come to mean a lot to me, and will soon be taking a new direction which makes me both sad and excited. Sad, for the loss of a book and fun perks arriving on my doorstep every month, and excitement about seeing what the club will look like in the…

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#Me every morning.

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Pride Month

June is coming to a close. This month I participated in Battle of the Bookish, reading a total of 6 books. I was unable to complete the readathon, but I did manage to complete all of the prompts for the team challenge. This month’s theme was Decades, and I chose team ’90s. June is also Pride Month. Of the 6 books I read, 4 of them had LGBTQIA themes. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller was the…

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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

So, this is actually a few weeks late, but at the beginning of June I read The Nation Must Awake by Mary E. Jones Parrish. This book is about the Tulsa Race Massacre that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31- June 1, 1921, when Dick Rowland, a black man, stepped into an elevator and stumbled against a white girl, causing a group of angry white people to loot and set fire to the prosperous…

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Thoughts From Behind The Counter

Thoughts From Behind The Counter

I am a pharmacy technician. I have worked here for almost 7.5 years. The store I work for is part of a retail pharmacy chain, whose name I shall not disclose due to privacy reasons. Since I know that there are some people who think that all we do is “slap a label on it”, I thought I would take the time to share a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes of the pharmacy. When the pharmacy…

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Playing Catchup

Hello again! It’s been awhile since I last updated ya’ll on books I’ve read. My reading has been slow, it feels like. I have a tendency to want to fall asleep after a few pages. Not because the book is boring, but because my body feels old. I’ve read a few books since my last post, so I’m just going to talk about all of them. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of…

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Deadly Decisions

Just finished my twelfth book of the year. Not doing any readathons this month, just going for pleasure and trying to bring down my TBR pile. Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan #3) by Kathy Reichs. In this book, Brennan is involved in a case involving a war between biker gangs. But it looks like Detective Andy might be a dirty cop. Also, Brennan’s nephew is staying with her, and gets caught up…

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P4A 2021: Say I'm Dead

P4A 2021: Say I’m Dead

E. Dolores Johnson’s birth certificate says Negro. She was raised black. But her mother was white. For 36 years, her mother kept her family a secret, until Delores decides to uncover the truth. What she learns is that her black father and white mother fled Indiana in the 1940s, where interracial marriage was illegal. Fearing for their lives, they fled to New York, evading and FBI search that…

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P4A Readathon- Death du Jour

P4A Readathon- Death du Jour

Hello, and welcome to another episode of “Amy Reads Books!” Tonight’s post is about Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan #2) by Kathy Reichs. This series is the one that inspired one of my favorite TV shows: Bones. If you are a fan of the show but have not read the books, I just want to put out a disclaimer that the books are not the same as the show. They are good to read, but the only similarities…

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Project for Awesome 2021 and Steelheart

Project for Awesome 2021 and Steelheart

Project for Awesome is an online fundraiser that was created to bring awareness and raise money for different charities. Videos are submitted of different charities and viewers will donate money, earn perks, and vote on the charities they want to receive funding. This year P4A took place Feb 12- Feb 14. The event raised $2,368,016! The perks included things like digital art, posters,…

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To Repair the World

To Repair the World

This is a few days late, but I recently finished reading To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer. It is a collection of his speeches dedicated to global health equity and social justice. I became of aware of Dr. Farmer because of my involvement with Life’s Library. The proceeds from the subscriptions go to Partners In Health, an organization co-founded by…

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Battle of the Bookish- Book 6

Battle of the Bookish- Book 6

January has come to an end, and with it, the end of another readathon. I was lucky enough to complete the last of the prompts last night. Hoping I can finish up an extra book today and earn more points for pages read, but we’ll see how it goes. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I love this book. This may have been the first of his books I read. I enjoy his world building, the characters. I did not…

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Battle of the Bookish- Book 5

Battle of the Bookish- Book 5

*******CONTAINS SPOILERS******* 5 down, 1 to go. Tonight I finished up Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. This was the “people’s choice” for Life’s Library, meaning that this book was chosen by members of the club. This was my fifth book to read for #battleofthebookish, read for the prompt of “any book”. I had a hard time with this book. The narration of the story was good,…

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Battle of the Bookish- Book 4

Finished up this lovely book last night. This makes book 4 of the year. Read for #battleofthebookish, prompt: in a series. I love Brandon Sanderson’s books, and this one is no exception. This was my second time to read it. It has a lot of the same type humor as Percy Jackson, and Sanderson does a lot of “breaking-the-fourth-wall” type of dialogue. It’s a middle grade fantasy series to delight…

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Battle of the Bookish- Book 3

Battle of the Bookish- Book 3

So, last night I finished reading Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Not only was this read for Battle of the Bookish (prompt: book with magic system), but this year I have chosen to read as many Sanderson books as possible. This was due to Rhythm of War that was released last year. His fantasy books are so massive, that it is hard for me to remember a lot of details of the books, so I always want to…