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Top Picks from the Borrowing Place

February 4, 2020 | Filed under: Kate Johnson

A lot of books came home from the library with me in 2019. Many of them were lugged back, unread or skimmed. But there were a few I could not put down. Turn off the bedside lamp, even though my eyes were refusing to stay open? Almost impossible! Permit me …

No Perfection Unless You’re a Sunset

March 26, 2019 | Filed under: Kate Johnson

Those who read are an exacting bunch. We grew up with professionally proofread books, back when publishers could still afford to pay someone to make sure no spelling mistake got by, no errant comma, sneaky typo, sloppy grammar or lazy punctuation. We had high expectations of our reading material. Now …

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