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 with Super-Long Titles. I’m late in posting this, but hey, better late than never, right? There are lots of books with… Read more »
Sunday Post – October 11, 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 Three early-morning medical appointments in one week! Don’t worry, I’m fine as far as… Read more »
Book Covers That Evoke Fall
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 Book Covers with Fall Colors/Vibes. On my TBR Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann. Zita, an orphan, discovers she is the only… Read more »
Sunday Post – 10/04/2020
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 I got a lot more blogging done this week, but unfortunately, no reviews. Other… Read more »
News & Notes – October 3, 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 Winston Groom, author of the novel Forrest Gump (later turned into a film starring Tom Hanks), died Sept. 17 at the age of 77…. Read more »
Boo-Cause Reading’s Spooktacular: Witches
Boo-Cause Reading’s Spooktacular, hosted by Because Reading, focuses on different “spooky” topics throughout the month of October; you can view the schedule at the link. Participants can interpret the topics in any way they wish. Since this is a book blog, I’ll be including at least a few book recommendations… Read more »
Reading Challenge Update: October 1, 2020
2020 Reading Challenge Lark of The Bookwyrm’s Hoard has read 0 books toward her goal of 200 books. hide 0 of 200 (0%) view books Goodreads Reading Challenge: At the end of August, I took a good hard look at my Goodreads Challenge and at my reading habits. The pandemic… Read more »
My Favorite Bookish Quotes
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 Book Quotes. Confession time: These aren’t necessarily my very favorite quotes, although some of them fall in that category. Instead, they… Read more »
Banned Books Week 2020
It’s Banned Books Week! Censorship of books (“banning” books) occurs all over the world, even in countries that generally oppose censorship.* In the US, it’s usually a state or local issue, and often involves books that a minority of people don’t want their library (or libraries) to carry, or their… Read more »
Sunday Post – 9/27/2020
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! Last Week Last night, we had another Zoom family birthday party, this time for my brother-in-law,… Read more »