Friday, June 26, 2026

Six in Six

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Emma at Words and Peace Emma at Words and Peace is now hosting Six in Six , a flexible meme in which at or around the end of the sixth mont...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Review: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (+Friday56 LinkUp)

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Title: This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage Book Beginning/First Line Friday snippet from the introduc...
Monday, June 22, 2026

TTT: My Summer Reading List (and how I did on my spring list)

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Top Ten Tuesday:  Summer 2026 Reading List (and How I Did On My Spring Reading List) Top Ten Tuesday: Summer Reading List.  Below the line i...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Paris in July -- Getting ready for my "trip" to France via books, food, sports, and language.

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Emma at France Book Tours It is almost July and time for the virtual trip to France. Here are a few things I hope to do this coming month re...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Sunday Salon --- Summer Solstice

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The photos are all dark since it was around 7 pm when we arrived for our picnic. Weather -- Beautiful. We went to a beach on the Puget Sound...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Short Reviews: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE; THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks Classic, Audiobook, 3 hr. 59 min., 1961. It is the 1930s in Edinburgh. Miss Jean Brodie is a...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Review: WHISTLER by Ann Patchett (+Friday56 LinkUp)

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Title: Whistler by Ann Patchett Book Beginning/ First Line Friday quote : Friday56 quote: 'No one would say such a thing today, but the...

A LONG OBEDIENCE IN THE SAME DIRECTION (+PDF of study session questions)

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My Women's Bible Study group at church recently decided to study the Psalms of Ascent with the aid of Eugene Peterson's wonderful bo...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Very short reviews: I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED; AUTOMATIC NOODLE; WILD RESCUES; and more

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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Audiobook, 6 hr. 26 min., 2022. Jennette McCurdy, a Nickelodeon star of iCarly, started auditi...