Welcome to my weekly update for December 20, 2020! I hope all who celebrate have a merry Christmas and happy holidays! My husband and I went to a Christmas drive-through light show on Friday night. It was a lot of fun! They even blew soap bubble “snow” on our car as we reached the end. […]
This week I’m sharing my top ten winter book covers and linking up to Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The actual prompt is “Books on Your Winter TBR” but I’m a mood reader and don’t plan my reading like that. I do hope to finally read The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey this winter […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 13, 2020! I believe I finished my Christmas shopping last week! Yay! Now I just hope everything gets delivered on time. Posted: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia–4 Stars My Top Ten Christmas Books Read: I’ve been trying to focus exclusively on A Promised Land (see below) but I […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl gave us a holiday/seasonal freebie for Top Ten Tuesday this week. I decided to list my top ten Christmas books. I’m not a huge fan of Christmas books for adults. They’re usually too syrupy for my taste. But I do love Christmas books for children and I have quite […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 6, 2020! Southern California has a stay-at-home order that goes into place tonight (December 6) at midnight and will last for at least three weeks, taking us past Christmas. Ugh. At least it should keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. We experienced our first California earthquake on Friday night! […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, the 6 Degrees of Separation meme asks us to start with one title and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. This month, we’re starting with the young adult classic, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret […]
During my first book blogging stint, I hosted a few reading challenges, as much for my own benefit as for anyone else’s. One of the challenges I’ve decided to resurrect is the 2021 New (To You) Narrator Reading Challenge. This wasn’t a terribly popular challenge but I also introduced it in 2016, the year my […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 29, 2020! I hope all my fellow American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving and the rest of you had good weeks as well! We had a very lowkey holiday because my husband was on call at his hospital. When he’s on call he has to be able to […]
For our final prompt in Nonfiction November, Katie at Doing Dewey asks which book are new to my TBR. It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book! Well, first of all, thanks […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 22, 2020! We’ve been cautiously exploring the San Diego area now for a few weeks. San Diego County was returned to the most restrictive coronavirus tier last weekend so our options are a bit limited. Luckily, my husband’s cousin and his wife are nearby so we’ve been spending […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl prompts us to share “The Top Ten Characters I Would Name a Pet After” this week. This is a fun topic but could be difficult so we’ll see how I do. Dogs Cats Others That’s my list! Have you read any of these? Do you agree with the names […]