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@bookgirl Nov 28, 2018, 9:23 PM UTC

Family Book Club and Aru Shah and the End of Time

My family read Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi, the first book in a new-ish series about Hindu mythology from the Rick Riordan presents imprint. For those who aren't familiar with Ric…

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@bookgirl Sep 13, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

Family Book Club and The BFG

This past summer we decided to start up a family book club. My boys were excited about sharing their favorite books with us, my husband thought it was a good way to get them to read some non-fiction…

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@bookgirl Nov 30, 2017, 6:53 PM UTC

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Last summer my husband took me and our kids to a presentation on Deep Learning and Neural Networks. He thought it would be fun for us. Yep, that’s what he said. Needless to say, 90% of the presentati…

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@bookgirl Nov 14, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

Hygge? Higgie? Hoogah? Huh?

Recently someone described my profile picture as "the epitome of hygge." Huh? So, I did a little research on this Danish concept (pronounced hoo-gah) for coziness as a life philosophy and realized th…

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@bookgirl Nov 3, 2017, 12:14 AM UTC

The Futures

Every so often I read a book, that just falls flat. There is nothing that stands out as being wrong with it, and when I go through the checklist-- plot, characters, writing quality-- it all check's o…

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@bookgirl Oct 25, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

Minneapolis is for Book Lovers!

http://i65.tinypic.com/2ijhifm.jpg I recently took a short trip to Minneapolis/ St. Paul and in addition to touring the twin cities, I checked out a couple of their amazing bookstores. First up was W…

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@bookgirl Oct 19, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

Beautiful and full of monsters

“Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.” https://dynamic.indigoimages.ca/books/0316341681.jpg?altimages=true&scaleup=true&maxheight=515&width=380&quality=85&s…

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@bookgirl Oct 11, 2017, 4:34 AM UTC

Arrant Knaves All

I recently read If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio. https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1480717682l/30319086.jpg The novel tells the story of a group insular theater students at an elite conservatory who…

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@bookgirl Oct 2, 2017, 9:42 PM UTC

My Summer of Science Fiction - The Other 2

In my last post I wrote about some of my favorite science-fiction reads from this summer. Now here are a couple I hard time getting through. 1. Ready Player One https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

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@bookgirl Sep 29, 2017, 7:40 PM UTC

My Summer of Science Fiction - The Top 3

I try to read a variety of books but while reviewing my reading list from this past summer I noticed that 5 of the books I read fall in to the sci-fi category. I do like science fiction, but 5 in a r…

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