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Good, Better, Best: Spring Books

It's taken a couple of months, but finally here's the Spring edition of Good, Better, Best to finish out the series! (If you'd like to see the other ones, here are the links: Summer , Fall , and Winter ). Good Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild This is a lovely British children's book from the 1950s, which I've been reading since I was very small. It's about two sisters who end up going to live at a dancing school run by their (absolute dragon of a) aunt. And Rachel is such a protective older sister, and I love her, but I also love her arc of having to realize that she's not 100% responsible for Hilary (who is the funnest! she's such a goofball, and I love her). Also, all of the dancing stuff is so fun, even though I don't actually dance. Since spring (and also June...) where I live often is just a lot of rain, so this book is one I think of a spring book not in spite of, but because of the huge amounts of rain. XD The Penderwicks in Spring by Jean...

Send Me Your Questions + Recommendations!

Hey guys! Something exciting is coming up next week...my blogoversary! I started blogging on May 12, 2020, which means that as of next Wednesday I'll have been blogging for one year! Wow. That's kinda surreal. And before I get into what I'm doing for this blogoversary, I just want to say: thank you! Yep, you read that right: thank you ! If not for all of you, who read my blog, commented, and engaged with this very new blogger, I would not have kept blogging! And so you all have my undying gratitude, because my life has become so much more rich from interacting and getting to know y'all through this blog community! So. On to what I'm doing to celebrate! For my blogoversary, I am inviting you to send me your burning questions! Ask anything you want to know, and, as long as it's not "where exactly do you live", or other questions in that vein, I would be happy to answer it! Yes, even if you ask what my OTP is, or other such questions that require extreme...

Good, Better, Best: World War II Fiction

The picture for this header is actually from my visit to Auschwitz. I was thinking to myself the other day that it'd been a while since I'd done a Good, Better, Best post, but that I should definitely think about doing another, because it's something that's sorta unique to Bookshire. And then the thought "well, you're read a lot of WWII historical fiction" popped into my head, immediately followed by a list at least four books long of WWII books I'd read recently, and I resolved that this post would get written. I feel like everyone and their best friend is obsessed with World War II these days (which is part of the reason why I feel safe writing this post, lol) and it's not exactly a novel topic, but...I really do read quite a bit of WWII historical fiction. All you really need to do is say "set during WWII", and I am immediately on board. I'm not entirely sure why--maybe it's because of my obsession with British authors who wer...

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