Happy New Year!
I wish you peace, health, and happiness throughout 2020.
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The Best Books I Read in 2019
Because I read more books this year than I had in any recent year, paring down my list of the year’s favorites was much harder than usual. I always try to reduce the list of 10 best and 5 honorable mentions, but this year I couldn’t decide which should be the final title to get
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Did I Fulfill My Reading Plan for 2019?
Earlier this month I posted about 10 Reading Regrets of 2019, a list of 10 particular books that I’m sorry I didn’t get to this year. But how did I do in terms of my overall reading plan for 2019, which I composed back in January? Let’s take a look. Here are the sections of
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Happy Holidays!
However you celebrate, I wish you peace, health, and happiness now and throughout the upcoming year.
10 Reading Regrets of 2019
Yesterday I came across the article Readers’ Regrets: The Books We Wish We Read in 2019. It prompted me to take a look at my own shelves for the books I regret not having read in 2019. Here are 10 of them, listed in no particular order. (Links that describe the book are to either
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Happy Thanksgiving (in the U.S.)!
And for your reading pleasure: From Zeus to Williams-Sonoma: The History of the Cornucopia
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Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag
Thanks to Madame Writer, on whose blog I found this tag. (She in turn traced the tag back to here.) I undertook this challenge because I’m in favor of anything that makes me stop and think about the books that I own, read or unread. 1. Find an author name or title with a Z
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Authors/Series I Stopped Reading–For Whatever Reason
What a time-consuming yet fruitful project this turned into. When I started looking back at my long-term reading log for the 6 Degrees of Separation meme, I discovered a lot of authors and/or series that I had begun to enjoy in the past but had not kept up with more recently. Many of these authors and
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