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My wife is a librarian, and when I started this blog, it was partly a way for me to share something about the numerous pre-release books that she and I would get when we went to book events. Also, when I started, doing this was fun, and I figured that if I were any good at it, maybe I would reach other readers....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-06 00:00:00 -0400 -0400">6 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to Stopping Regular Book Blog" href=https://blog.vollink.nyc/post/2019/10/stopping-regular-book-blog/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Title Illustration I read somewhere that the story of Disney's Frozen was based on this book, so I decided to read and review it for this blog. I want to be clear that there is almost nothing that the story of Frozen has left in common with this original fairytale, except for a talking reindeer. This is a short read, and I've linked to the full text via Project Gutenberg in the book information block below....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-10-03 01:36:00 -0400 -0400">3 Oct 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen" href=https://blog.vollink.nyc/post/2019/10/the-snow-queen/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-18 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">18 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman" href=https://blog.vollink.nyc/post/2019/09/the-graveyard-book/></a></article><article class=post-entry><header class=entry-header><h2>[Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren</h2></header><div class=entry-content><p>Book Cover Elizabeth Warren is running for president, and pretty much every candidate writes a book prior to running. It's a good way to let folks know where they are coming from, and do so in a long format, unfiltered by the journalist's desire to pare things down into sound-bites. This book is subtitled: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class. This is a book about politics, personal history of the author and the economic history of the country along with ample explanation of why the past matters today....</p></div><footer class=entry-footer><span title="2019-09-04 12:00:00 -0400 -0400">4 Sep 2019</span> · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><a class=entry-link aria-label="post link to [Book] This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren" href=https://blog.vollink.nyc/post/2019/09/this-fight-is-our-fight/></a></article><footer class=page-footer><nav class=pagination><a class=prev href=https://blog.vollink.nyc/>« Prev</a>
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