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Category: Books & Reading

Readers, winter is around the corner and I’m turning my gaze toward the winter book selections for Book Club. There’s

Families are complicated. This isn’t just a plainly true statement—it’s also my favorite literary sub-genre. For the last few years,

Five years ago, I completed my first NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, where participants write a 50,000 word

As far as I know, the British don’t have a term like the Danish hygge to describe the concept of

Welcome to Quick Lit, where we share short and sweet reviews of what we’ve been reading lately on the 15th

A few weeks ago, I shared some highly anticipated fall reads on Patreon (the video is still available). It was

Your relationship with William Shakespeare likely depends on your high school English class experience. I’m fortunate that my first Shakespeare

For years, I’ve been dreaming of hosting a longform reader event for our community—a gathering where you can get together

Readers, it’s finally fall—at least according to the calendar it is; our forecast is still in the 90s here—and with

Readers, my love of strong literary heroines is no secret. (I did named my blog Modern Mrs. Darcy after the

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