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Literary Linking: December 31 – January 4
This week’s link topics include: Hollywood’s inaccurate depiction of the publishing industry, Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018, and more! How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry WrongThis may be true, but I love this line from the article: “Happily, once realism has been pulped like the first print run of a fraudulent memoir, the fun…
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2018 End-of-Year Book Survey
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…
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Books I Wish I’d Read in 2018
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…
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Literary Linking: November 26 – December 7
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!…
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How I Blew My 2018 Reading Challenge and Why I’m Okay With It
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,…
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What’s Making Me Happy, Vol. 17
I swear it was just Halloween, but here we are at the end of November! Thanksgiving was a great chance to remember all the things I’m grateful for. Friends and family topped the list for the year. I’m so lucky to have people in my life that make me happy! For the purposes of this post,…