My Tenth Blogiversary!
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On December 31, 2009, I started Howling Frog Books because I wanted to participate in reading challenges. I had no idea how much fun, great literature, and neat people across the world I was going to find! So, to my fellow book bloggers and readers, thank you so much for ten years of bookish loveliness. You have been a great help to me. Just for fun, here is the very first book I blogged about: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, by Susan Jane Gilman. Ten years ago I was a homeschooling mom with a 9- and a 6-year-old. I didn't have a job because the county had decided that the public library -- where I'd been doing sub work with the expectation of eventually working part-time at least -- didn't need much in the way of actual librarians. I wasn't sure how I was going to solve that career dilemma, but meanwhile I was very busy doing classical education at home. Now my kids are nearly grown; one is at college. My career dilemma solved itself when the commun