Tracy Shapley Towley
Tracy is a freelance copywriter, all-around ne’er do well, very-adult graduate of the University of Iowa, and occasional waterer of plants. Her hobbies include writing fiction, reading fiction, mixing together various flavors of soup, and typing letters to her friends on an old red typewriter that doesn't have a working period so all sentences must end in questions marks or exclamation points? She has read every Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and has a lot of thoughts on them. Her old Iowa farmhouse is shared by her husband Sean, a pair of cats, a pair of dogs, and the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut.
Valentine’s Bookmarks to Buy or DIY for Your Bookish Valentine
February 3, 2022Find incredible free printed Valentine's bookmarks, ideas to DIY Valentine's bookmarks, and links to bookmarks you can buy.
A Partial List of the Books My Puppy Has Eaten and an Analysis of Her Selections
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TL;DR: Potentially Useful Recaps of Popular Self-Help Books of the Last Decade
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An Inconsistent Grading of Way Too Many Poems From Beanie Baby Tags
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2021 National Book Award Winners Announced
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What if Your Reading Life Was a Video Game? Reading Side Quests for All Types of Readers
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The Joy of Reading About Cooking: Recent(ish) Non-Cookbook Books by Chefs
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What the Literati Reviews Didn’t Tell Me
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10 Fish Books for Kids: They Don’t Get Betta Than This
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