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! Happy New Year! I can’t tell you how glad I am to see the end of… Read more »
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020: Wrap-up Posts Linky
The 2020 Challenge ended on December 31, 2020, at midnight in your time zone. Click here to sign up for the 2021 Backlist Reader Challenge. The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020 is over! Time to link your wrap-up post! 2020 is over (thank goodness!) and so is The Backlist Reader Challenge… Read more »
My 2021 Reading Goals and Challenges
Full rules and sign-up linkups can be found at the link for each challenge. The quarantimes had a significant impact on my reading habits in 2020. There were times when I couldn’t focus on reading at all, times when I reread voraciously but couldn’t face reading anything new (or new… Read more »
My Favorite Books of 2020
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 Favorite Books of 2020. These are the 12 best new-to-me books I read in 2020. Most of them were released in 2020,… Read more »
Happy Holidays! Sunday Post – December 27, 2020
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! Christmas Week We had a better Christmas week than I anticipated, despite not being able to… Read more »
The Farolitos of Christmas
The Farolitos of Christmas by Rudolfo Anaya Illustrator: Edward Gonzales Published by Disney-Hyperion on 1995 Genres: Children’s Books, Picture Books, Christmas Format: Paperback Add to Goodreads It’s Christmas in San Juan, New Mexico, and young Luz worries that with her grandfather sick and her father in the hospital, wounded from… December 23, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 1 ★★★★★
Books I Hope Santa Brings
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 I Hope Santa Brings. Books I Hope Santa Brings There aren’t a lot of books on my Christmas wish list this… Read more »
Belated Sunday Post – December 20 (21!), 2020
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! Last Week This week, I finally pulled myself together enough to start decorating for Christmas —… Read more »
News & Notes – December 19, 2020
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 Notable Literary Deaths in 2020: So many literary figures have died this year, from Christopher Tolkien in January to John Le Carré just last… Read more »
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2021: Rules & Sign-up
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2021 Is your TBR pile threatening to topple over? Does your Goodreads to-read shelf have hundreds of books on it? Then join the club — or rather, the challenge! I don’t know about you, but my Goodreads to-read shelf has over a thousand books on it,… Read more »