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February 7, 2020
Monthly Themes Update: January
Somehow it is now February, which means I have completed my first monthly reading theme, which was finish some partially read books. All and all, I think I did a pretty good job with this theme, particularly in the first half of the month. The first book I finished was …
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January 3, 2020
Book Quest & Monthly Themes
For my 2020 reading, I am trying out two things. First, I will be focusing on reading books I already own, as well as library books, while also curbing my book buying. Second, I am assigning a theme to each month to guide what I read. See more info about …
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January 2, 2020
Best of 2019
2020 is here … but forget about that, I’m not quite done with 2019 just yet. It was quite the year for me and so it’s time to look back and pick out some of the best things. Books Fiction: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston I read …
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December 23, 2019
Favourite Books of the Decade
Yikes, what have I gotten myself into? With all the end of the decade lists out there, some friends and I were, naturally, discussing our favourite books. As always with these lists, it was hard to narrow things down but looking back at the 2010s, here are some highlights. Note, …
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December 17, 2019
Litha/Yule Reading Tag
Time for another book tag! This one was designed by my friend Sue, please check out her blog for more details about the challenge and the inspriation behind it: https://doddyaboutbooks.com/2019/12/1... Litha is the celebration of the summer solstice – the longest day and the shortest night. Yule is the …
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November 28, 2019
The End of Year Book Tag 2019
As December will soon be upon us, it seemed like a good time to look at my reading plans to get to the end of 2019. Thus, book tag! One thing not covered below is the fact that my Goodreads Reading Challenge is current at 70 of 85 books. I …
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November 15, 2019
The Rock Garden
The following story was written for the first round of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge 14. I’m very pleased to say that it got me through to the second round, which takes place this coming weekend (Nov 16-17, 2019). I hope you enjoy! Synopsis: Rosemary searches for the key that will let …
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September 14, 2019
Tome Infinity and Beyond TBR
This September, I’m taking part in the Tome Infinity and Beyond readathon. I am part of Team Natural Disaster. After the more or less failure that was my summer reading list, I’m going to be less ambitious when putting together this TBR but I still want to challenge myself to …
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September 10, 2019
Summer reading list update
If you’ve been following along, you will see that I didn’t make a whole lot of progress on my list, even after extending it into September. All and all, I finished five of twenty books (The Princess Trap, The Wedding Date, The Last Time I Lied, and There’s Something About …
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July 2, 2019
My summer reading list
I have a problem. There’s a word for it in Japanese that I’ve considered getting a tattoo of at some point. The word is tsundoku (積ん読), which means acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. I don’t know how many books I own …
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