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Mailbox Monday #630

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has it’s own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Advanced Lift-the-Flap: How Your Body Works by Rosie Dickins

Source: Purchased Hardcover, 16 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate How Your Body Works by Rosie Dickins from Usborne is full of information in easily digestible chunks for young kids. From the organs to growth and eating, this book covers a lot. Some of the book covers nutrition and the importance of exercise, but there […]

Alone! by Barry Falls

Source: Media Masters Publicity Hardcover, 32 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Alone! by Barry Falls is a colorful picture book that focuses on how to adapt to change, make friends, and find balance. Billy McGill lives on a hill and he lives there alone, at least until a mouse decides to enter his life. […]

Diary of a Pug: Pug’s Got Talent by Kyla May

Source: Purchased Paperback, 80 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Diary of a Pug: Pug’s Got Talent by Kyla May is the fourth book in the series, but readers could start with any book in the series because they are self-contained episodes and include enough background for kids if they start in the middle. Baron […]

Mailbox Monday #629

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has it’s own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Final Thoughts: National Poetry Month 2021

Each poetry month, I tend to take up the write a poem a day challenge, but I didn’t. I knew that I would be super busy with work and with the Gaithersburg Book Festival, which starts May 1 online at the YouTube channel. But I sorely missed writing every day this month. I don’t write […]

Interview with Karen Lyon, columnist at Hill Rag and founder of The Literary Hill BookFest

The Literary Hill BookFest is going to be virtual again this year on Sunday, May 2, at 11:00 a.m. Since you won’t have to travel to Washington D.C., why not begin your day with some fiction writers, poets, and children’s authors. I’m very excited to be part of this event for the first time as […]

Thresholds and Other Poems by Matt Hohner

Source: the poet Paperback, 96 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Threshold: the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested. Thresholds and Other Poems by Matt Hohner explores that threshold in depth, the line that must be crossed in order for the […]

Literary Hill BookFest 2021

The idea for the Literary Hill BookFest began in late 2010, spinning it off of the Hill Rag column about books, authors, and literary events that Karen Lyon had been writing since 2001 and take it “live.” The first BookFest was held in 2011 in the North Hall of Eastern Market. The mission of the […]

Mailbox Monday #628

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has it’s own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]