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I picked up this concept art for work at the LQ auction in 2023. I was already stoked, but then Vo added this sweet card AND sent me a holiday card. I put the art on display, but I can‘t way to integrate it more meaningfully into programming.

One of those titles where the apostrophe is key.

A moving memoir of the author's reconnection with her Eritrean family, after international adoption.

The author points out in the afterword that since she wrote the book, Eritrea's political situation has worsened, making her hope to live in Asmara unlikely: but it's clear this was a life changing experience.

The trouble with the dead is that no one will speak ill of them.

All the research into adoptees tracing their birth parents harps on about the fear of repeated rejection. That's rich. For a start it makes it sound like the rejection is all in the adoptee's head. Which it isn't, it's a fact. My family didn't keep me.

The room is suddenly filled with emotion. We are all thinking the same thing: it could just as easily be me standing here with a limp from a bullet in my hip, and Aster standing in my place.

This book was so good! A gothic, forest setting with a Caraval-style magic system. I loved that the families were named for trees, and I loved the rhyming way the nightmare spoke. Can't wait for the next one.
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Releasing all of the new books at work has made me more inclined to read more children‘s books in the meantime.

This is an adorable book about what the sun does for people all around the world ☀️; looking at it possibly being read for the summer reading kickoff! 📚

My #Marchtbr I find I do so much better reading my own shelves when I have a plan for the month. And I'm so close at finishing the Amelia Peabody series which makes me a little sad, I'll just have to start them all over again.

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A few of my planned books for #Februarytbr

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Laura Sebastian has become one of my favourite authors. I absolutely loved this and never wanted it to end. Triplets who have been raised since birth to help their month conquer their world start to see that maybe there's more to life than lies and politics. I loved all three storylines and this book is for anyone who loved Kendare Blake's Three Dark Crowns series.

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