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Joli

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. More About Me

  • Bookish Stuff & ThingsLiving Life Bookishly

    Joli’s Midweek Mix: Volume 4

    by Joli April 6, 2016
    by Joli April 6, 2016

    Another midweek, another mix! Here are some bookish links that I enjoyed this week. Bullet Journal How-To A couple days after I posted my book journaling experience post, Rachel @ Never Enough Novels posted the same type of post, only …

  • On Writing & Blogging

    Starting a Reading Journal: The How & Why, and My Experience

    by Joli April 1, 2016
    by Joli April 1, 2016

    Although I’m relatively new to book blogging, I have a degree in English, so I’m no stranger to writing about books. However, I’ll admit, blog-style book reviews are much different from the papers I wrote for class! For my first couple …

  • On Writing & Blogging

    10 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get Your Book Review Ideas Flowing

    by Joli March 26, 2016
    by Joli March 26, 2016

    Sometimes, when I sit down to write a book review post, it takes me some time to gather my thoughts. How the heck did I actually feel about this book? Did I even really have feelings about it while I …

  • Bookish Stuff & ThingsLiving Life Bookishly

    Joli’s Midweek Mix: Volume 3

    by Joli March 23, 2016
    by Joli March 23, 2016

    I’m back! #BookishMadness was stealing all my time last week, but since we’re not voting again until Thursday, this week has been less crazy. By the way, don’t forget to keep voting! Some interesting book pairs have been going up …

  • Book ReviewsLiterary Fiction

    Review: The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie

    by Joli March 20, 2016
    by Joli March 20, 2016

    This novel can be described with the following list of very interesting adjectives: quirky, ironic, karmic, squirrelly, political, joyful, maddening, hilarious, emotional, awkward, and even Pynchonesque at times. Is your interest piqued? It should be! I had a good time reading …

  • Living Life Bookishly

    #BookishMadness Round 2 Starts Now!

    by Joli March 19, 2016
    by Joli March 19, 2016

    Wow, that was a lot of voting in two days to get through Round 1. But we did it, and it’s done! Now we have some really crazy matchups coming up between books that are so totally different from one …

  • Living Life Bookishly

    #BookishMadness is here!

    by Joli March 17, 2016
    by Joli March 17, 2016

    It’s March Madness, but with books! We’re hosting #BookishMadness with our friend Maggie over at Reading and Musing. You can vote for your favorites throughout the next couple of weeks until we name the champion title. Join us on Twitter to vote! …

  • Bookish Stuff & ThingsLiving Life Bookishly

    Joli’s Midweek Mix: Volume 2

    by Joli March 9, 2016
    by Joli March 9, 2016

    It’s time again for my midweek mix of (mostly) bookish links to stuff n’ things! What did you find interesting this week? 40 Great Books Coming to a Screen Near You There are so many books on this list that …

  • Book ReviewsHistorical Fiction

    Review: The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin

    by Joli March 7, 2016
    by Joli March 7, 2016

    Friends, this was a difficult one for me to get through. The Aviator’s Wife is a work of historical fiction about Ann Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh’s wife. Narrated by Ann, the novel follows her from her college years in 1927 until …

  • Bookish Stuff & ThingsLiving Life Bookishly

    Joli’s Midweek Mix: Volume 1

    by Joli March 2, 2016
    by Joli March 2, 2016

    It’s time for a new weekly post on LQ. I keep finding awesome bookish (and sometimes just cool) stuff online that I want to share with you. So, this is my space to do it! Every Wednesday I’ll post a …

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