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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s also\u00a0time to come clean and admit the books still languishing on your TBR pile.<\/p>\n
What book did you want to, plan to, or h<\/em><\/strong>ave<\/em> to read this year … but didn’t?<\/strong><\/p>\n Here are the two that I most regret not having read this year:<\/p>\n So, now that I’ve made you (and me!) feel guilty, take heart – we have 21 days left until next year. \u00a0Grab a book and start reading!<\/p>\n Luckily for me, I’ll be reviewing the audiobook version of\u00a0<\/span>Rooftoppers<\/em>\u00a0soon for a magazine, and I’ve got time to squeeze in Serafina’s Promise<\/em>. \u00a0How about you? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It’s December – the time to ponder the best books of 2013, and to wonder which ones will receive the coveted awards of January. It’s also\u00a0time to come clean and admit the books still languishing on your TBR pile. What book did you want to, plan to, or have to read this year … but didn’t? Here are the two that I most regret not having read this year: Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell (Simon & Schuster) Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg (Scholastic) So, now that I’ve made you (and me!) feel guilty, take heart – we have 21 days left until next year. \u00a0Grab a book and start reading! Luckily for me, I’ll be reviewing the audiobook version of\u00a0Rooftoppers\u00a0soon for a magazine, and I’ve got time to squeeze in Serafina’s Promise. \u00a0How about you? \u00a0 \u00a0 Image:\u00a0By Gilles Demarteau [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[113,64,22,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-lisa-taylor","category-bloggers","category-childrens-literature","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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