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Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl! Top Ten Characters That Remind Me of Myself This is kind of the ultimate in book reading, right? At least for me, especially when I was a kid, books were a place I could go to find people like me, the people I really related to. And there were and are a lot! 1. Jo from Little Women Jo March is a writer, she's strong, she's brave, she's a tomboy. She's everything I wanted to be. I've never been quite as angry as Jo, but I've always felt like she and I get each other on a deeper level. 2. Meg from A Wrinkle In Time Like Jo, and unlike me, Meg is also a really angry character. I didn't quite relate to that, but I related to her as an outsider, a rebel, and someone who hated being told what to do by interfering grownups (ok, maybe I'm a little angry). Meg is also really good at math, and while I didn't identify that way, I understood being ostracized by other kids when I couldn't turn

Books Read This Month Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Dinner Party by Brenda Janowitz Blood of Tyrants by Naomi Novik (Temeraire #8) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Off the Sidelines by Kirsten Gillibrand Stoned by Aja Raden The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne Favorite Books This Month 1. Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden "Real jewels," Raden concludes, "are formed in the human mind." Raden's journey through the histories of diamonds, emeralds, pearls, and watches coalesce around the themes of "want," "take," and "have." Her assertions that jewels have changed the history of the world ring truer in some cases than others (while she makes a strong case for the influence of jewelry-centered events, I believe the French Revolution and Spanish Armada defeat would