A recent call for a Classics Club Spin reminded me that I need to re-examine my Classics Club commitment. When I originally signed up for the Classics Club back in March 2014, I put together a list of just over 50 books that I pledged to read by March 1, 2019. Well, that date has […]
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We were scheduled to return home from our world cruise on May 11, but during late March, while we were visiting Australia, I began to feel what I thought was the start of a sinus infection. The ship’s doctor said, “No, I think you have something wrong in your tooth.” He sent me to a
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Watership Down by Richard Adams Adams, Richard. Watership Down© 1972rpt. Avon, 1975ISBN 0-38000293-0 If you liked The Lord of the Rings, you’ll probably like this book. Replace Hobbits with rabbits, and you’ve got an archtypical heroic quest. Forced by the encroachment of people into their warren of Sandleford in England, a small band of rabbits
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I’m going to be a bit less formal in my reading plan for 2019 than I was last year. First, because I read so many books last year, I’m boldly going to increase my annual Goodreads challenge to 50 books for 2019. Second, I’m going to avoid any other particular reading challenges and instead just
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As with all my annual reading lists, this one comprises books I read in 2018, regardless of when they were published. In past years I’ve limited my list to 15 books, broken down into the best (10) and honorable mention (5). This year I found it particularly hard to distinguish between those two divisions. I
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Back in January I put together My Reading Plan for 2018. My follow-through has been mixed: I overly fulfilled some intentions but failed woefully in others. Reading Challenges Goodreads Challenge I crushed my Goodreads challenge to read 45 books by knocking off 63. Here, according to Goodreads, are my additional statistics for 2018: I read
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Preparing the annual list of people from the writing whom we lost over the year is the least favorite of my year-end blogging tasks. Rereading the list always painfully takes my breath away. Ursula K. Le Guin, 1/22 Barbara Wersba, 2/18 Lisa Garcia Quiroz, 3/16 Philip Kerr, 3/23 Anita Shreve, 3/29 Drue Heinz, 3/30 Sergio
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Source: New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out – The New York Times This coming year marks the first time in two decades that a large body of copyrighted works will lose their protected status — a shift that will have profound consequences for publishers and literary estates, which stand to lose
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Related Post: Best Books of 2018 The Best of the Bunch: Bookish’s Favorite Books from 2018 THE 2018 OSCARS, BUT FOR BOOKS The Oscars (but less white and for books) is in its second year here at Book Riot, and we’re honoring the best of the best 2018 releases in Hollywood fashion! Fiction Faves: Novels
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Here’s a short entry for this busy holiday week. In Fiction, It Was the Year of the Woman An interesting look at the bulk of novels published this year: They didn’t launch any franchises — no “girl”-titled blockbusters and probably no future Jennifer Lawrence vehicles — but collectively, they dominated a shrunken literary ecosystem. Each
