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This week I have listened to 2 audiobooks and had a persistent migraine so I wasn’t able to do a lot of reading but I did rest a lot. This week I listened to… The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum And this is what I thought about them. The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum This book is good, this is a continuation of The Wizard of Oz.This book is about Tip who makes a scarecrow of type of a man with a jack o'lantern for a head (Jack the pu

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