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Detroit City: Home In A Book
This WWW Wednesday: I finally finished The Boys In The Boat, for those of you who missed last week’s post!! This week there are two books on the nightstand and they’re both enjoyable. I am clearly...
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101 Books Better Than “50 Shades of Grey”
This week on Friday Findings: It may be late in the summer, but it’s never too late to discover new books to read! Thanks to a friend on Facebook (who says Facebook doesn’t offer valuable...
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Scotland, Men in Kilts & A Book Binge
This WWW Wednesday: SCOTLAND! This week the focus is all on Scotland. After browsing for a new TV show to watch this past weekend, I came across a new Starz original series. Realizing it was based on...
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We Were Liars: Pain On Display
We Were Liars By E. Lockhart Privilege. Water. Family. Secrets. Plot Twist. These are the first words that come to mind when thinking about We Were Liars. The “beautiful Sinclair family,”...
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Detroit Is Underwater But My Books Are Dry
This WWW Wednesday: This week Detroit and the surrounding metro area were hit with a torrential downpour. The flooding was horrible and many people’s basements were destroyed. My thoughts are with...
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20 Books To Read In Your Twenties
A few weeks back the book list “11 Books to Read Now that You’re a College Grad,” was brought to my attention. Although I’ve been out of college (though not school) for the last two years, a lot of the...
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WWW Wednesday – Sep. 3, 2014
Remember, WWW Wednesdays cover the following: What are you currently reading? What did you recently read? What will you read next? … The post WWW Wednesday – Sep. 3, 2014 appeared first on Sitting...
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Upcoming Book Tour: WWW Wednesday
This WWW Wednesday… For the last week and a half Sitting in the Stacks was silent while I went on a much needed vacation. This trip yielded some interesting bookstores, which will be reviewed in the...
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Outlander Review: Romantic History
Outlander By: Diana Gabaldon In lieu of the Scottish vote yesterday on the independence referendum it seemed appropriate to replace today’s Friday Findings with the review of Outlander. Although...
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Misdirection (Rusty Diamond Trilogy)
Misdirection (The Rusty Diamond Trilogy) By Austin Williams *This post is the 2nd stop on the Misdirection blog tour. Austin Williams’ first book in the Rusty Diamond Trilogy is aptly named. At every...
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If you hadn’t guessed, I’m back in school. This time it is the big bad world of graduate school. Between reading 500+ pages a week, research, trying to figure out what I want to do, and generally...
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To the Afterlife and Back: Grim
By Anna Waggener Sitting in the Stacks Rating: 4 Grim, as my first book after a long semester of graduate school, was a particularly enthusiastic read for me. The author, Anna Waggener, was a...
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From the Desert To the Improbable: The Tenth Saint and An Archeological...
The Tenth Saint by D.J. Niko The arid, unforgiving desert of Ethiopia plays host to the majority of D.J Niko’s thrilling novel. The Tenth Saint follows the work of Sarah Weston, an Oxford trained...
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Comedy or Tragedy?: A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Have you ever read a book you either could not finish or had difficulty understanding? Up until the past month, the only book (besides school readings)...
View ArticleThe Books of the Longest Summer
I’m back. What’s my excuse this time for being gone so long, you may ask. Well – nothing that sounds justifiable. Summer, which is only now ending for me, was long. I have never counted September as...
View ArticleAnthropology of an American Girl
When I first picked up “Anthropology of an American Girl,” I approached it with sarcasm. A friend of mine had joked about developing an American Studies class about the elusive American Girl. My...
View ArticleTo Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is assigned reading in most middle schools and high schools. I can still recall sitting in 8th English talking about Scout and Atticus Finch. As I aged, these...
View ArticleGo Set a Watchman — learning to cope with change
Go Set a Watchman, published in 2015, arrived to bookstores immersed in controversy over the rights of Harper Lee and the actual placement of the text in relation to To Kill a Mockingbird. Was this...
View ArticleThe Group — Mary McCarthy’s novel of 1930s women
The Group by Mary McCarthy follows eight girls through the experiences of adulthood, marriage, and careers in Depression-era New York City. The upper-middle class women each have their own vignette...
View ArticleMurder in Paris: Aimee Leduc Investigations
Earlier this summer a fellow book blogger shared that she was reading Murder on the Quai (the most recent release in the series). I was instantly intrigued as I had recently finished all the books in...
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