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What I Meant To Read This Year ...But Didn't

You know that annoying little thing called life that always seems to take up all your time?  Yes, that! That's what has gotten in between me and my first true love: Reading.  I am ashamed to say this year wasn't one for the books. (see what I did just then? :)  So here is a book round up of the books that should have been.  2014, please spare me the drama that your friend 2013 served me up, (with sides of huge life changes and second helpings of trials and tribulations) and let me get some reading done, mmkay??  First off, I actually started this book and put it down at some point. I really think it has potential. It usually takes me a while to get into historical fiction but once I do, I am always glad I stuck with it!  I have a feeling I'll love this book because I LOVED "The Doctor and The Diva"  A gripping novel set in Belle Époque Paris and inspired by the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen and a notorio

Book Review: The Circle

I read a book!  *raises hands in the air and jumps around in celebration. The Circle by Dave Eggers Synopsis:  When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the mo