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Archives for December 2014

How Much Did I Spend on Books in 2014?

December 31, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: My Reading Diary 4 Comments

Since I keep such detailed records of how many books I get and from where in my Mailbox posts, I wanted to go through all of them and see how much money I spent on books in a year.  I thought it would be a lot more than it actually was!  At the very least ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 31, 2014 8:07 am By Jessica Filed Under: My Reading Diary | Tagged With: 2014, money
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Top Ten Books I Read in 2014

December 30, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: Top Ten Tuesday 10 Comments

 Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish with a different theme every week. Every year I make a list of the best books I read that year.  You can read my lists for 2011, 2012, and 2013.  I only put books on these lists that I gave 5 stars and it usually ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 30, 2014 8:41 am By Jessica Filed Under: Top Ten Tuesday | Tagged With: 2014, Favorites
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Book Review: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

December 18, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Review 4 Comments

Northerner Abbey might be my favorite Jane Austen novel.  One of the main reasons is because Catherine is my new favorite heroine.  She's a tom boy and she treats her life like it's a fictional novel.  Catherine is the kind of person that would yell "plot twist!" at an unfortunate event in her life.  I aspire ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 18, 2014 8:11 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Review | Tagged With: 5 Stars, Adult, Book Review, Classics Club, Content None, Content Rating, eBook, eBook Challenge 2014, TBR Pile 2014
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Book Club Christmas Party

December 17, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 7 Comments

You may not know this but I host a book club in my neighborhood.  We had an awesome Christmas book exchange on December 2. I wanted to blog about it in case anyone wants some fun ideas for their book club. There was tons of food. Thank you Brit for modeling the food for us :)   There ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 17, 2014 8:00 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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Reading Queue December

December 16, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Queue 6 Comments

Reading Queue is a monthly meme where you share what books you plan to read for the month.  You can hop to other blogs and see what others are reading and maybe find someone reading the same thing as you! Or you can ask for people to vote on what you should read next if ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 16, 2014 12:31 pm By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Queue | Tagged With: NaNoWriMo
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