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    Best Books of 2024: Looking Back at Our Favorite Reads

    by Joli January 8, 2025
    by Joli January 8, 2025

    Here are a few of the LQ contributors’ favorite reads of 2024. Here’s to a fantastic reading year in 205!

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    What We Read in November 2024

    by Joli December 6, 2024
    by Joli December 6, 2024

    And just like that, it’s December. I swear time goes by faster both in the summer and around the holidays. On the plus side, it’s cozy reading-by-the-tree season! A favorite of mine, for sure. Here’s what we read in November. …

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    What We Read in October 2024

    by Joli November 5, 2024
    by Joli November 5, 2024

    How was your spooky month? I had a fun time taking my 6-year-old (dressed as my dog) out trick-or-treating. I really need to buy less candy because we never get as many trick-or-treaters as I think we might! We read …

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    What We Read in September 2024

    by Joli October 9, 2024
    by Joli October 9, 2024

    Oh hey! What am I doing posting this more than a week into the beginning of the month, you ask? Well, maybe you’re not asking and don’t really care as much as I do that this post is late, but …

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    What We Read in August 2024

    by Joli September 7, 2024
    by Joli September 7, 2024

    My little girl started Kindergarten this week! She went for three glorious days and loved it all. I’m definitely living vicariously through her as I remember my own early school years…discovering the glories of lunch and recess and friend making …

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    3 Must-Read Books for Women in Translation Month 2024

    by Cathy August 16, 2024
    by Cathy August 16, 2024

    I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from sharing a post about Women in Translation month (see my WIT lists from 2020 and 2021), but I haven’t stopped reading books written and translated by women. Just in case you need …

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    What We Read in July 2024

    by Joli August 7, 2024
    by Joli August 7, 2024

    I’m putting this post together while I sit here watching the Olympics. I’m a huge Olympics fan and I try to take in as much of it as I can throughout the few weeks that it’s on. There are just …

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    What We Read in June 2024

    by Joli July 6, 2024
    by Joli July 6, 2024

    As soon as someone said something about the year being half over, I had to wonder how the heck that happened. Where did the year go?? Guess I must be having fun with the time flying by like this. June …

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    What We Read in May 2024

    by Joli June 5, 2024
    by Joli June 5, 2024

    Somehow, it’s almost summer. My calendar is filling up with events—town festivals, kid birthday parties, cabin trips…hopefully there are a few minutes of reading time that can be found in there somewhere. Here’s a list of what a few of …

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    What We Read in April 2024

    by Joli May 17, 2024
    by Joli May 17, 2024

    Wow, suddenly it’s mid-May and I’m JUST posting what we read in April. I have a good excuse, though…I was in Cancun! The company I work for is 100% remote, and once a year we get together for a retreat. …

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