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Today’s edition of Mystery Daily Deals is sponsored by Get Underlined.

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Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Tor Teen, publisher of The Luminaries by Susan Dennard. 

Here are a few of the most delightfully bookish garden goods I’ve come across. Yes, I would like to fill book-shaped planters with trailing flowers. Yes, I would like to scatter my garden with silly little statues of dragons and gnomes and animals reading. Yes, I love the idea of images of my favorite books peeking out from moss-covered stones. If you, too, dream of a beautiful garden that announces your love for books (and makes for a perfect outdoor reading nook), this list is for you....

We never need to wait until January to get organized, but I think the beginning of the year is a natural time to take stock, reflect, and figure out how you want move forward. No matter when you’re reading this, I know you won’t want to sleep on these bookish tools to help you tidy up your desks, label your planners, organize your craft supplies and bookish goods, and get rid of physical and mental clutter so you can focus on your other more important goals — such as hitting your TBR challenge, tackling the next Read Harder task, or even finishing up that writing project....

Bookish Side Hustles to Earn a Little Extra Cash Reviewer Being a book reviewer can sometimes mean cash on top of free advanced readers’ copies. If you have the credentials, getting started typically isn’t too difficult. Some journals require or highly encourage particular experience. For example, Library Journal (which doesn’t pay) usually prefers library staff apply, because their content is intended for libraries. The application process varies by journal, and some may be one-off review opportunities while others may have a regular schedule for you....

To refresh your memory, The Hating Game is about Lucy and Joshua, coworkers and arch enemies at a publishing company who are suddenly thrust into competition for the top job. Enemies to lovers is one of the most popular romance tropes (for a reason), but The Hating Game adds on some good old-fashioned workplace hijinks for a truly satisfying read. So I’ve tried to find books that have the same feeling for this list....

I have concerns that, in order to ensure lucrative success for the purposes of keeping venues open and staff paid, mainstream production companies will revive outdated favourites to get butts in seats and boost their sales as fast as possible. I’m worried that capital gain and socio-political progress in the arts will clash even more than before and that, inevitably, profit will win over promoting innovative content from the voices we desperately need, that have been pushed aside for too long....

DonorsChoose is a platform where educators can submit projects they wish to have crowdfunded. It’s been used since 2000, most frequently by teachers in needy communities where funding challenges abound. Each project is assessed by DonorsChoose, and fulfillment of the projects goes through the organization — you can rest assured every donated penny goes directly to the project. #FillEveryShelf aims to fund every book or digital resource project across the site on a single day....

Whether you’re an avid fan of all things night and sky or simply love the array of colors that show up in a celestial work of art, this collection of celestial bookmarks will help you not only save your space (heh) in your current read, but they’ll get you dreaming about the universe and beyond, too. Included in this gallery of galaxies are constellations you might be familiar with, as well as creations entirely of someone’s imagination....

With millions of titles, ThriftBooks has an endless selection of children’s books at the best prices to fill your child’s imagination…. and their library. From childhood classics to new undiscovered worlds of adventures, there is something for everyone and every budget. And with the ThriftBooks ReadingRewards program, every purchase gets you a step closer to your next free book. Shop ThriftBooks.com today to unleash the pure imagination a world of children’s books has to offer....

Gingerbread cookies and houses are truly the staple of gingerbread, but I’m also a huge fan of the more cakey versions of gingerbread. So I thought we’d try a little bit of both. I’m pitting three gingerbread cookie recipes against each other and three cakey gingerbread recipes against each other. Which recipes reigned supreme? Read on and find out! The History of Gingerbread According to Making Gingerbread Houses by Rhonda Massingham Hart, gingerbread recipes have been around since 2400 BCE, when ancient Greeks and Egyptians used it for ceremonial purposes....

Years later, when I took a “How to Teach Elementary Art” class as part of the early childhood education program I was in, the professor talked about how common it is for kids to stop drawing at a similar age. This is when children begin noticing the imperfections of their art, she explained, and it bothers them more than when they were younger. Without encouragement, many kids like me stop drawing....

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau Jackie Lau’s Baldwin Village series (Starting with One Bed For Christmas) is all about eating, and this one is no exception. It starts just before Valentine’s Day, when Josh, the CEO of a local app development company, wanders into Happy as Pie, Sarah’s shop. After having some of the most delightful pie of the sweet and savory kind, Josh comes up with a way to lure his estranged father—a math nerd extraordinaire—to visit him in Toronto and speak to him again: the ultimate Pi Day party, complete with a total smorgasbord of pies....

My Twilight story is a common one, I think. The books found me at a time when I needed them. I was going through my first breakup and Edward Cullen was a salve to the ache of going to school and seeing the heartbreaker every day. New Moon was what I could hold up as proof that my grief over a high school romance was real and valid. A few years later, I went to a midnight release party for Breaking Dawn with my friends; we made T-shirts and lined up so we spelled out “BITE HER!...

May 1 “Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.” —Joseph Heller, Author of Catch 22 “Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.” —Terry Goodkind, Author of Wizard’s First Rule May 5 “I’ve always had the feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction....