Megan Rogers

I also read a lot of picture books in February and as always fell in love with more PBs. I need to be better about tracking the PBs I love! (and I will maintain that you do not need a kid to read, enjoy, and be swept away by picture books)

The Van Gogh Deception Check out The Van Gogh Deception - <P><strong>A&#160;Sunshine State Young Readers Award nominee&#160;</strong><BR /> &quot;A suspenseful mystery romp with art appreciation and heartening trust in read...

A middle grade mystery thriller about art crime!? Sign me up. Read this one in a few sittings because I needed to know what happened. Also, FWIW, I am a major scaredy cat and I think scaredy cats can handle this one! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Exposure Check out Exposure - <p><b>GRIEF IS LIKE THIS . . .</b></p> <p><b>Falling in love with your best friend, only to lose her to a mysterious death.</b></p> <p><b>Working for decades to achieve a dream, a...

Knew nothing about this book when I pulled it off the library shelf (a truly fun way to stumble on a good read) + it was more literary than my taste has been lately, but also SO GOOD. How does the author write characters so well?! Grief is a major theme, FYI.

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The Favorites: A Novel A Novel

I now cannot wait to watch Ice Dancing at the next Olympics! Heard this compared to a teen soap + Wuthering Heights and it's delightful
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It's time for another end of the month book appreciation round-up! Books continue to be a balm for me. No matter the day, I can end it with at least 5 minutes of reading (except for last night when I was too jazzed about the Survivor premiere and also too tired when it ended at 10 pm to read)

To Increase Government Efficiency, Every Federal Employee Must Write an Email No One Will Read “Billionaire Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying in a post on his social media platform X that employees must respo...

The last line made me laugh out loud and I am obligated to share any piece that makes me LOL and literally LOL

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Imagine being a billionaire and not finding joy every day with just giving your money away. Like, every day you could walk up to a small nonprofit, hand them $100k, and walk away knowing you'd just hugely changed people's lives. How broken would you have to be for that NOT to be what you chose?

"Each barcode scan is a cha-ching for my wallet." by @megrog.bsky.social

Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/my-favorite-...

What Happened to Rachel Riley? An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes,…

And this MG by Claire Swinarski. Love interstitials in books.

By Any Other Name a book by Jodi Picoult #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an "inspiring" (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart--one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare's plays--who are both f...

Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name. A doorstopper that I was worried would be a slog, but was more drawn in to the historical POV than expected. Super interesting take on the Shakespeare authorship question.

The In-Between Bookstore a book by Edward Underhill "What would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhill's tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope I've ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single ...

January has been a good reading month. Want to shout out a few books that are getting me through:

First up, In Between Bookstore -- a fun take on the "if you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say" trope. Similar vibes to the movie My Old Ass

I finally broke the cycle of purchasing/returning when I was so sick of how unfun the returning process is... which in turn inspired this piece!

My Favorite Way to Make Money is By Returning Items I Just Bought Each barcode scan is a cha-ching for my wallet.

Wrote a new piece for @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social! Absolutely inspired by a period last year when I was purchasing and returning way too much.

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The joy of winter break as a kid is still deeply ingrained in me. We've reached Dec. 20 and I'm feeling a deep need to make cookies, check out a stack of books from the library, and follow no routines until 2025.

See you next year! (a joke I loved to say in elementary school + still do)

Read so many picture books this year -- was surprised by how many were so affecting and emotional. Thankful for an equal number of funny ones to keep things in balance

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Hyper Specific Yoga with Adriene Videos I Wish She’d Make for Me Yoga for Young Adults Who Did Something Weird to Their Backs Fifteen-Minute Yoga for the Modern Woman Who Spent the First Ten Minutes of Her Free T...

I need this! --> Calming Breathing Exercises for the Moment When Teens Walk by, and You Can’t Remember If the Jeans You’re Wearing Are Good

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2024 Superlatives For a bunch of random categories I made up

Maybe the only 2024 superlatives you'll read with pickles winning a category.

(and if you do see pickles mentioned in year end round-ups, please let me know!)

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Words that Spoke to Me in 2024 Fiction, non-fiction, picture books, and humor pieces

I wrote about all of my favorite books and humor pieces of 2024. Happy reading!

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Deep-Sea Creeps: A Field Guide to Terrible Ex-Boyfriends (as Sea Creatures) a book by Danielle Kraese Your exes as the creeps of the deep sea. While there may be plenty of fish in the sea, the ones down deep may not be worth catching. Deep-sea Creeps is a taxonomy of those terrible exes that should h...

also: might I recommend these Vulture-approved creeps for all your holiday gift-giving needs!

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OMG what a great list!

The Democrats Plan a Holiday Party JEN, QUENTIN, STEPHANIE, and DAVID enter a conference room located deep inside the DC Beltway. DAVID sits in a chair. QUENTIN sits in a chair facin...

Oh no, this resonates @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Esp relevant to me as someone with a mischievous pup named Moose!

Happy Thanksgiving & Welcome December Sing the above in the style of *NSYNC's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Happy Thanksgiving, Welcome December (said in the tune of NSYNC's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays)

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5 Ways to Make Thanksgiving Matter PLUS Your Civic Gratitude Worksheet

I like reading @emilyinyourphone.bsky.social's newsletters & this one was no exception

"What I am choosing to focus on this Thanksgiving season is how I can rebuild connections, give back to my community and find hope in this polarized world." (& some ways to do that!)

Watching the Simone Biles documentary on Netflix and am so inspired!

I scrolled Substack notes a lot after leaving Twitter and enjoyed, but hoping BlueSky will be a touch better (aka please do not let the majority of posts be about how people are growing their subscriber/follower counts. PLEASE)

Hurry! Our Semi-Annual Sale Happens Only 59 Times a Year This is your ONLY choice to score a deal until our next sale, which we just decided starts in 37 hours.

With Black Friday sales fast approaching, seems like an appropriate time to share this piece I wrote for @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social

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book shelf labels pointing down to "Shakespeare plays" and up to "Shakespeare studies"

good for him! work-life balance is so important

Would love to be added to the 12x12 pack!

2) Recent books I've loved are Strangeville School is Totally Normal (modern day Wayside School) and Fang Fiction about a girl who disappears into the world of her favorite vampire series.