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March Book Selection for It’s A Likely Story Book Club
My friend, Korie, a librarian here in my little Oregon town, has been reading books for months now with one theme in mind — not a white protagonist. Children’s books. YA. Fiction. Nonfiction. She realized a while back how very white her reading list was and made a commitment to change that, both for her…
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January Book Selection for It’s a Likely Story Book Club
Waving in the dark, friends. And in the light. It’s 12:52am at home and 9:47am where I’m typing this from the Brussels airport, ready to board my flight to Uganda in a few minutes. Light and dark, chasing each other across the world, and I feel like I have a foot in both at the…
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December Book Selection for A Likely Story Book Club
Hi All! It’s time to reveal the December book club selection for A Likely Story Book Club, the book club for escapist fiction fans. Now, yes, I know we technically haven’t reviewed November’s book — or October’s book — but we’re going to forgive me for that because I’m still figuring out how this whole book club…
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A Likely Story Book Club: October 2016 Book Selection
Announcing: October’s Book Selection! I’m excited about this one! Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Described as a young adult, steampunk, alternative history adventure, Leviathan reimagines WWII from the perspective of teenage Prince Aleksandar Ferdinand of Prussia. It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns…