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Talk about a good book! This past summer, my friend Nadee recommended Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It is a fantastic, fascinating book even for someone like me who has never played a video game!                                Click here to listen to my Book Talk   😀
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Hello! My name is Mrs. "d" for da Silva. My full surname is "Pinheiro da Silva" which means pine tree of the forest. I am guessing that my husband's ancestors lived near a pine forest. I have heard that Jews from Portugal changed their surnames to ones related to the landscape around them, so they wouldn't be as easily identified as Jews. Well, you may not be interested in my name, but names are fascinating, aren't they? How did you get your name? Share a comment if you'd like to... So, I am reading Legend by Marie Lu . I have been looking for a good romance to recommend to a student who says she doesn't finish books she starts. I used to be like that too, until I found the right book! So before I recommend this book to her, I want to read it myself to make sure it is a good one. So far, it is pretty good--a page turner--though it took me a while to get into. I decided to look it up on YouTube and discovered I could listen to so