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This week I chat about Independent Bookstore Day (4/24!), Simon & Schuster, Hana Khan Carries On, Mary Oliver & more!

It's late on Sunday and I'm just putting the finishing touches on this, so I apologize that you'll get it on Monday morning. It's been a week! I didn't make much of a dent in my TBR pile (A Children's Bible was meh), but I did finish four memoirs for an independent book contest that I critique. Those books, in addition to This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, made me think about storytelling. It's amazing how many people feel compelled to tell stories and how storytelling

"There will always be time to worry and do other things, but take the time to find some calm and read!"

Dictionary.com word of the year. Less Hawthorne, more romance. Little Women revived on page and screen. Mary Oliver's Upstream.