Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward With Your Life by Matt Paxton, Jordan Michael Smith Published by Portfolio on February 8, 2022 Genres: House and Home, Self-Help Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: the library Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Audible | Chirp Add… October 5, 2023 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 6 ★★★★½
Gryphon in Light by Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon Series: Kelvren’s Saga #1 Published by DAW Books on July 25, 2023 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 368 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also by this author: The Serpent’s Shadow, Phoenix… October 4, 2023 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 1 ★★★★
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. Banned Books On My Shelves Today’s official topic is Reading Goals I Still Want to Accomplish Before the End of the Year, but this is Banned… Read more »
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 »
