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The Mindful Librarian

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Join me while I read and muse my way through midlife in Wisconsin ~ book recommendations, comments on the reading life, and roundups of things I love, delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.

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About Katy O.

Curator, reader, educator, librarian, parent ~ sharing reading recommendations and other midlife musings from the gorgeous Driftless Region of Wisconsin

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