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My Year in Books
Erin Zaranec
  • Jan 1, 2019
  • 2 min

My Year in Books

Happy 2019! I know that cliches say we're only supposed to be looking forward instead of back in the past, but now that I've had some tim...
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2018 Reads: Books 96-100
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 96-100

Nina Browning is living the good life. Her husband sold his tech company and she's now in the Nashville elite. Tom Volpe is a single dad w...
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2018 Reads: Books 91-95
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 91-95

Clay Johnson gets a job at a bookstore when he soon realizes how many secrets are hidden in the stacks. The customers are few and far betw...
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2018 Reads: Books 86-90
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 1 min

2018 Reads: Books 86-90

David Adam lives with the fear of contracting AIDS. He knows it's not rational and not a true possibility in his life. Adam writes about ...
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2018 Reads: Books 81-85
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 81-85

Willa Drake leads a life that is comfortable and... fine, but that's probably the strongest word she can use to define her life. After ge...
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2018 Reads: Books 76-80
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 76-80

David Hedge's finds his life coming apart at the seams. His rental house may be going on the market, his boyfriend left him, and his job ...
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2018 Reads: Books 71-75
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 71-75

A book that starts with a simple dinner party leads to more twists and turns than I could have ever imagined. Anne and Marco have one of ...
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2018 Reads: Books 66-70
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 66-70

This book was a huge hit this year... it was featured on nearly every Bookstagram I follow, countless blogs, review websites, and best se...
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2018 Reads: Books 61-65
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 61-65

Friends and former bandmates Elizabeth, Andrew, and Zoe have seen each other from college to marriage and full-fledged adulthood. Now, th...
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2018 Reads: Books 56-60
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 29, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 56-60

So... considering I couldn't even remember reading this book... I feel like I can't even summarize it for y'all. Here's a link to it's Go...
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2018 Reads: Books 51-55
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 29, 2018
  • 3 min

2018 Reads: Books 51-55

After the death of her life-long best friend, the separation from her husband, and the moody teenage years of her daughter - Isabel find...
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2018 Reads: Books 46-50
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 28, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 46-50

Hope Jahren is a badass. Through the course of her career, she's built three laboratories from the ground up. She studies trees, flowers,...
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2018 Reads: Books 41-45
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 27, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 Reads: Books 41-45

Wow, wow, wow. Nina Riggs' was an amazing writer, storyteller, wife, friend, mother, I could go on... She writes through a battle with ca...
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2018 reads: Books 36-40
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 25, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 reads: Books 36-40

I heard all of the hype about Ng's writing after Little Fires Everywhere became a hit . I started reading Everything I Never Told You whi...
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2018 reads: Books 31-35
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 23, 2018
  • 3 min

2018 reads: Books 31-35

I heard so much hype around this book for years and figured it was time to check it out for myself. Written from the point of view of Chr...
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2018 reads: Books 26-30
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 22, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 reads: Books 26-30

Wow, wow, and wow. This book was a random pick up from the library and I ended up learning so much from it. I did not know the story of M...
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A Bookworm's Delight: Gift Guide
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 11, 2018
  • 1 min

A Bookworm's Delight: Gift Guide

Looking for the perfect gift for the book lover in your life? I searched the city for some local makers and creators who have created the...
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Best of the Bookshelf
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 6, 2018
  • 7 min

Best of the Bookshelf

With the year coming to an end, I'm SO close to my goal of reading 100 books (only 5 reads away, to be exact!) While I'm still posting al...
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2018 reads: Books 21-25
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 3, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 reads: Books 21-25

This book wasn't exactly what I thought it would be, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good. I think that Rowe's writing really saved the b...
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2018 reads: Books 16-20
Erin Zaranec
  • Dec 1, 2018
  • 2 min

2018 reads: Books 16-20

This book was so interesting to me because it took me deeper into a land a culture that I don't know much about. Ahmed wrote honestly abo...
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