COYER 2021 – Summer Season In 2020, the COYER reading challenge went year-round. The resulting community and fellowship has done a lot to sustain me through the pandemic, so when Berls and Michelle decided to stick with the year-round format in 2021, but divide it into seasons, I was all… Read more »
My Listening Year, So Far We’re halfway through the Audiobook Challenge 2021, and according to the guidelines, it’s time for a check-in! This year, I’m aiming for the Weekend Warrior level of 5-10 audiobooks. So far, I have finished four audiobooks, although I had to read the last couple of chapters… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week It was hot and humid much of the week, but yesterday was gorgeous. I… 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 Bookish News Shirley Jackson Awards nominees announced. The awards are for “outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic” in a… Read more »
June was a slower-than-usual reading month for me, and I am not sure why. I read or listened to only nine books during the entire month, and one of those was a novelette (longer than a short story, but not as long as a novella.) I started several other books… 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 Most Anticipated Books of 2nd Half of 2021. I have listed these roughly in order of how excited I am, beginning with… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week The play reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on June 20 was a lot… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimberly, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures—I mean books! My Week Happy Father’s Day to any of my readers who are fathers, or father figures,… 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 Bookish News The Locus Awards announced their top 10 finalists for 2021. The winners will be announced June 26, 2021. SFWA announced this year’s Nebula Award… 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 Summer TBR. Forthcoming books In order of release date. Some of these don’t come out until fall, but I… Read more »
