Month: December 2018

Jamie, the blogger behind The Perpetual Page-Turner, puts together a wonderful book survey at the end of each year and here it is for 2018. Reading wasn’t easy for me for most of the year, but since the fall, my focus, stamina, and short-term memory all improved. Opening a book has become fun again and…

As of this very second, my reading total for 2018 is 104 books. I’m reasonably happy with this number, but there are so many titles I really wanted to read this year, but  didn’t get to. When I looked at my Goodreads TBR, and saw the enormous list of titles that I’d been meaning to…

Link topics for the past couple weeks include: the NPR Book Concierge, shopping for books during the holidays, comparing US and UK book covers, and more! My favorite bookish links from the weeks of November 26 – December 7: Margaret Atwood Announces The Handmaid Tale’s Sequel, The TestamentsPart deux of The Handmaid’s Tale??? Praise be!…

It’s only the beginning of December and websites and blogs are already posting their reading challenges for 2019. This has made me think about the bookish goal I set for myself this year: No New Books for a Year – The Back To My Bookshelves Challenge. As the name of the challenge so subtly suggests,…