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Monuments Men Read-a-long Part I

Covers on the Silver ScreenJanuary is a month of exciting read-a-longs for me and I’m particularly looking forward to getting started with Monuments Men. Not only am I co-hosting with the wonderful Jennifer at Bookalicious Mama, I’ve really been enjoying the book so far. Today I’ll be answering the first set of questions from Jennifer. If you want to join in, you can share you answers on her post here.
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January Read-a-longs

lotr-buttonLord of the Rings Read-a-long

I’m excited to re-read this trilogy! Especially since I picked up this beautiful, surprisingly slim anthology that includes all three book. Sign-ups are going on here and are hosted by Pages Unbound and Chasm of Books. Continue reading

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The Book Thief – Discussion 1/3

We here at Doing Dewey are very anti-spoiler but for read-a-longs, there’s really no way to avoid them. So, if you haven’t read the first three parts of The Book Thief which are being discussed in the It’s All About Books read-a-long, this post is going to be COMPLETELY SPOILERY. You have been warned.

This read-a-long for The Book Thief is one of the first read-a-longs I’ve done, so first I’m going to tell you a bit about how I’m liking it. Then I’ll answer some of the discussion questions from our host, Suey. I don’t like to be reading multiple books at one time, so I was surprised at how easy it was to read this between two other books. It was very hard to stop reading because I was enjoying this book a lot, but it’s worth it to me to get to discuss the book with other bloggers. I can’t wait for the twitter chat tomorrow!

Discussion Questions

  1. What’s your first impression of Death as a character/narrator? Continue reading

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