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Magazine Review: Real Simple Organize Your Home

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I enjoyed the article "The Book Fairy" on page 17 of this one-time specialized magazine published in 2019. Just like the author, I also have a storage unit that stores my books and magazines. I had never retrieved one book or one magazine from my storage unit. I went to the storage unit to drop off my boxes of books and magazines and I never went there to retrieve a box to read or to giveaway. Recently, I have realized that paying high rent for the storage of books and magazines is just absurd, so I have been giving away numerous books to Goodwill.   It's nice to learn from reading this magazine that there are other places where I can give my books to. Like the author, I also had tried giving away my books and magazines on Twitter. But unlike the author, I never had anyone asking me for my giveaways. The author of this artcile have a hard time in parting with books. But for me, I have an even harder time to part with my huge collection of glossy magazines. All the books

Twelve Days of Christmas

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The cover of this book is so festive and cute. It's what made me pick up to read this book. So far, I'm half-way through and I'm enjoying the festive and heart-warming romance. This is the kind of story that we often see on Hallmark's TV channel during the holiday season. The main character of this romance novel, Julia found herself tangle up with her neighbor Cain after she found Cain took her newspapers at the mailbox area in their apartment building. Her plot to revenge on Cain was fun but it surprised me to see people still subscribed and read printed newspapers that make the hands dark. This book was originally published in 2016, not 1996. So I'm surprised to read that people actually could fight over printed newspaper in the mailbox area, when newspapers are available digitally on phones and tablets. This is the part in the book that doesn't make sense to me because both Julia and Cain seemed to be avid in phone texting.

The Cloisters

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If only I hadn't stepped inside a bookstore today, I wouldn't have discovered this page turner.  I had read the intriguing Prologue and Chapter One of this book inside the bookstore and I found it hard to put the book down.  When I read about Ann's dead father, her mom who works in the cafeteria in Whitman College and her small town existence in Walla Walla being a part-time waitress in a dinner, I felt sad when she packed up everything in her room at home, leaving her widowed  mother in Walla Walla, for the Big Apple.  There were only two in her family and now they were going to be thousands of miles apart.  I just felt sad when I put myself in Ann's mom's situation.  In Chapter 2, Ann was told that the Metorpolitan Museum in New York City suddenly realized that there was no internship position for Ann. While she was sitting in the office of some important HR director inside the MET, receiving the blow of the rejection, the curator at the Cloisters suddenly came in

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness

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