Books Read – October 2023 Books Rereads are indicated with an asterisk. This month, I ended up binge-rereading a bunch of Celia Lake’s Albion books… again. They’re my latest obsession. But I also read a few new books. Challenges These are the books I read for various challenges, but I… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! This week I’m also participating in The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz, and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Echo Brown, author of Black Girl Unlimited and The Chosen One, died Sept. 16 of renal failure at the age of 39. Brown had… Read more »
AI and Intellectual Property Theft In case you’ve missed the headlines, it turns out that Meta’s generative AI program was trained on Books3, a vast dataset of books, many of them pirated. It seems probable that other generative AI chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were as well. (NOTE: Link goes… Read more »
October Readathons I’m signing up for two October readathons, in hopes they get me to read some of the books and ARCs I have. Witchtober Witchtober is hosted by Your Book Friend, and runs from the last week of September through Halloween (Sept. 25–Oct. 31.) The idea is to read… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book. Secondary Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book I didn’t think this would be a difficult… Read more »
If you’re interested in learning a language, or reviewing one you studied long ago, Duolingo is a good place to start. The app is free in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play, or you can use Duolingo directly on the web via your desktop. The free version works just… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! This week I’m also participating in The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz, and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Marlene at Reading… Read more »
I’m signing up for NaNoWriMo again this November. I did it last year, and while I didn’t make the goal of 50,000 words in a month, I did write over 33,000 words. Granted, it wasn’t all scenes and chapters; that word count included some brainstorming and character development. But it’s… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List. Books on My Fall 2023 To-Read List Note: These are in order of publication. Babel:… Read more »
