Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten “Books I Read Because Someone Recommended Them to Me.” This may be tough. I can generally remember that someone recommended a book but I might not remember exactly who recommended it. I’ll give it a try. Ahab’s Wife; or the Star-Gazer by […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 18, 2020! My husband and I did go to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument last week for our anniversary. Most of the trails were really short (maybe half a mile roundtrip) but they took us through some beautiful areas! Left to right: The Story in Time […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten long book titles this week. I decided to choose from books I’ve actually read. I also decided to choose five compound titles and five simple titles. Compound Titles: Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 11, 2020! I’m prepping this post on Wednesday because my husband and I are hoping to drive out to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument for some hiking for our anniversary weekend. It looks like a beautiful area, so we’re excited! Any of you who read children’s […]
This week, That Artsy Reader Girl prompts us to share “Book Covers with Fall Colors/Vibes.” I chose books that I’ve either read or that are on my TBR. I also tried to avoid horror covers (I have plenty of those) although I did veer into some Gothic covers. Here’s what I found for my top […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 4, 2020! Friday is our sixteenth wedding anniversary. I’m not quite sure where the time has gone! We normally take our big vacation for the year in October but that’s obviously out of the question this year. Oh well. When you’re traveling with work because you actually enjoy […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, this meme asks us to start with one title and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. I purposefully kept my connections to spooky/horror reads for the Halloween season. My chain goes from The Turn of the Screw to Bird […]
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt at That Artsy Reader Girl is “Favorite Book Quotes.” Now, I love some good book quotes. Back home, I have journals filled with them, now I have some saved on my computer, and I have a lot on GoodReads too. But this is Banned Books Week and I try […]
It’s time for Banned Books Week 2020! This is the reading community’s annual campaign to bring awareness to the problems of book banning and censorship. I normally plan a full week of reviews and posts but it snuck up on me this year. As I write this, I have a review of One Flew Over […]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 27, 2020! The rain has continued this week here in Portland, Oregon so that means the smoke has stayed away. Yay! According to the fire map I check, the Riverside fire, which is the one closest to where we are, is at 138,000 acres burned and 34% contained. […]
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt at That Artsy Reader Girl is Books On My Fall 2020 TBR. I’m not that organized; I just read whatever looks good when it’s time to choose a new one. So I decided to list the Top Ten Books I Read in Elementary School. Beverly Cleary has been on […]