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Feb 2024
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#233 - Reading Confessions: Is Joining A...

Ariel Bissett & Raeleen Lemay
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This month in reading confessions we hear from TWO people suffering with their book clubs, a book annotating disaster, a librarian losing love for books, and someone who hates epigraphs!


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