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stwin, I think that was what she was struggling with. Don't get me wrong, she really enjoyed the series, but she was just more interested in some characters (at least first read-through) than others.
I've taped the one book back together (several times), so I guess it's just a question of whether I think it will hold up well enough to be donated.
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I did some searches for art projects using books, but most are for hardcovers and the problem books are softcovers.
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I did see one suggestion of using book pages for watercolors, but I'm not sure how that would work on some of the thin pages I have...
I finished
Thirteen Detectives; it was pretty good. I'd read half the stories before, though, and I'm not sure if the other half really stood out to me as great or ones I really want to reread.
I also made it through all the introductory notes (something like 40 pages!) for
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun and have just started the poetry part. A lot of the explanation of the form and the emphases and rhythm was lost on me, but it is pretty and would sound great read aloud.
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I also went to a big booksale last night. I didn't get a lot, but I was pretty happy with what I got - namely, a hardcover ex libris copy of
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I'd been putting off reading it because I figured it would take longer than the two-week library loan period to read with my schedule, and I didn't want to beat up a friend's copy. But since this copy is already beat up, no worries.
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I also bought a couple cookbooks, and a copy of
Moonblood by Anne Elisabeth Stengl. I picked up
Moonblood because I thought I might actually read it if I have a copy around (and the price was right
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). I looked at the back when I got home and went, "Wait, what?" for a few minutes before I started remembering enough about the previous book in the series to make any sense out of it. XD We'll see how reading it goes.
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