10 Most-Loved Posts from Our First Year of Bookishness

Yep, it’s official, Literary Quicksand has been live for over a year! We launched our site on February 11, 2016. Where has the time gone?? What a year!

To everyone who has visited and loved books along with us, thank you!! Here’s to another bookish year 😊

Here are our most-loved posts in the first year of LQ.

1. Starting a Reading Journal: The How & Why, and My Experience
   
2. 10 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get Your Book Review Ideas Flowing
   
3. Book Review: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
   
4. Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
   
5. Book Review: Me Before You
   
6. Our Favorite Reads of 2016
   
7. 5 Books for Quitting Your Job to Move to the Woods
   
8. Sorting LOTR Characters into Hogwarts Houses
   
9. Book Review: The Taliban Shuffle
   
10. Book Clubs: Are they worth it or overrated?
    

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I'm a freelance writer/content strategist with an English degree living in Minneapolis, MN with my husband, young daughter, and two dogs. I created Literary Quicksand to feed my love of books, writing, and community.
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