Book Challenge: Classics, Cover Art & Personal Reading

Day 28: Classic novel you haven’t read but plan to: I looked up my “want to read” books on Goodreads, and right at the top was Middlemarch by George Eliot. There are 57 books currently on my “want to read” list on Goodreads! And instead of reading them, I read other books that interest me […]

Book Challenge: Bad Guys, Strong Women & Ancient Civilizations

3 more days of Sandman Jazz’s Book Challenge. Day 25: Book villain you actually love: This was a hard one! I finally came up with Severus Snape, from the Harry Potter series. That is, I THOUGHT he was a villain, working for Voldemort. Of course, this turned out not to be the case, so he wasn’t […]

Book Challenge: Love and Donald Trump

For Sandman Jazz’s 30-day book challenge, here are my answers for Days 22, 23, and 24. Day 22: An LGBTQ love story: Two excellent novels are Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. I read The Great Believers last spring. The story moves back and forth between the 1980s […]

30-Day Book Challenge: 19, 20, 21 – concerning Irish accents and poets

This post is in response to Sandman Jazz’s June 30-Day book challenge. Day 19: An audiobook you like because of the narrator’s voice: I have listened to very few audiobooks because my ADHD doesn’t allow my brain to concentrate for long on spoken narration. But one that I really loved was Angela’s Ashes read by […]

30 Day Book Challenge: 16, 17, 18

Here’s my latest installment in Sandman Jazz’s June 30-Day Book Challenge. Day 16: A book you’ve read more than once: I don’t often do this, much as I’m tempted, because there are too many other books to read! However, every few years, I need an injection of Jane Austen, so I reread Pride and Prejudice. […]

30-Day Book Challenge – The Color Purple and Javelinas

This is another installment of Sandman Jazz’s 30-Day Book Challenge, which I am doing three days at a time. Day 13: A book with a color in the title: The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, which happens to be one of my favorite books. It was made into a movie, which I liked, but the […]

30-Day June Book Challenge: 10, 11, 12 – Mostly Strong Women

Here I go with Days 10, 11 and 12 of Sandman Jazz’s book challenge. Day 10: A book that makes you cry happy tears: Anne of Green Gables Day 11: Literary character you want to have dinner with: Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut – She is actually a real historical character but I have read three books […]

30 Day Book Challenge: 7, 8, 9

Here is my 3-day installment for Sandman Jazz’s 30-day book challenge. Day 7: Best audiobook to listen to on a road trip: I suppose it depends on the road trip. The only audiobook we’ve listened to on a road trip was one of Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee mysteries (see Day 1) – I don’t […]

30 Day Book Challenge: Childhood Books, Favorite Classic, and Book that Broke my Heart

I am taking this challenge three days at a time. My last post was for days 1-3, today will be days 4-6, of Sandman Jazz’s 30-Day Book Challenge. Day 4: Book you remember from childhood: There are so many! But in the interest of not repeating myself later, I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little […]

2018 When Are You Reading Challenge

I’ve decided to join a reading challenge! This challenge, called When Are You Reading?, is to read a book set in each of the following time periods for a total of 12 books. Since I’m joining this half way through the year and I belong to 3 book groups, so I don’t always seek books […]