Carmen Milligan
Ray Bradbury Read-a-Thon
Y'all!! Today we celebrate Ray Bradbury's 100th birthday with quite the reading extravaganza! For the event, actors, authors, librarians,...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Christopher Robin Milne is born August 21, 1920
On a trip to New York City several years ago, I somehow discovered that the original stuffed animals from the 100 Acre Wood were at the...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 21, 20201 min read
New Review Coming: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
I just finished "The Glass Hotel" by Emily St. John Mandel. I was quite excited when I saw that this 2020-published novel was available...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Reading goal: Pulitzer Prize winners for Fiction: Part 1
I have read a few novels which have won the coveted Pulitzer Prize. So far, reading these novels has left me scratching my head as to why...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 20, 20203 min read
When you ask a librarian a question...
I am not a fan of J. D. Salinger. I do not think The Catcher in the Rye was the best coming of age book written this century. I also do...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 19, 20201 min read
Review Posted: Normal People by Sally Rooney
Head on over to Bubbly Bibbly where you can read my latest review of Normal People by Sally Rooney. It's a little longer than my other...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 18, 20201 min read
New Release Tuesday
It's Tuesday, and you know what that means: new books have been released into the wild! In reviewing the books available today, one...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Today is Bad Poetry Day!
On the literary calendar, August 18 is "Bad Poetry Day". Let me introduce you to a most famous poetry mangler. William Topaz McGonagall...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Second Meeting of Sorority Book Club
The second meeting of my sorority book club will meet tonight. Unfortunately, I won't be available (we had to push it a week to the...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 5, 20201 min read
On this day in literary history: Toni Morrison dies
On this day in 2019 at the age of 88, a powerful voice left this earth. Toni Morrison was many things. Single mother, editor, author,...
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Carmen Milligan
Aug 2, 20201 min read
Author Spotlight: George Saunders
I happened upon this wonderful video on writing tips from George Saunders. It was posted in 2017, and it seems to speak to our world...
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Carmen Milligan
Jul 29, 20201 min read
100 Page Rule
I have a 100-Page-Rule. Simply put, I give a book 100 pages to grab my attention and make it worth my time to read it. That, in my...
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Carmen Milligan
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Why I read.
I have read as long as I can remember. I loved The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, and devoured Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys books....
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Carmen Milligan
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Sooooo many books!
There are so many books out there. I have over 1000 on my to-be-read (TBR) list. And yet, EVERY Tuesday, more and more and more books are...
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