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Jun 273 min read
Time travel and sort-of time travel
Reading The Ministry of Time and trying to listen to The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
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May 173 min read
A DNF cemetary and three titles finished this year
I've written before about getting more persnickety about my reading and about clawing my way out of a post-covid reading slump. While...
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Jul 21, 20233 min read
The Joy of Re-reading: Emily of New Moon
Revisiting LM Montgomery's Prince Edward Island, this time in an audiobook narrated by Megan Follows.
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Feb 18, 20234 min read
Our Missing Books
Bradbury, Ray- Fahrenheit 451 (read by Tim Robbins) Ng, Celeste- Our Missing Hearts House, Silas- Lark Ascending Once again, I'm pulling...
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Jan 22, 20233 min read
Some Gen-X books: Into the Wild and The Hours
Cunningham, Michael- The Hours Krakauer, Jon- Into The Wild (read by Phillip Franklin) My reading goal for the year is to read some of...
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May 31, 20225 min read
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy
Liu, Cixin- The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End A quote from The New Yorker on the cover of the 3rd book reads "[Liu's]...
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Apr 26, 20223 min read
A short YA fantasy list
Levine, Gail Carson- Fairest Levine, Gail Carson- Ella Enchanted Novik, Naomi- A Deadly Education Novik, Naomi- The Last Graduate and...
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Apr 4, 20223 min read
See it or read it: Belgravia
A couple of months ago, I saw Belgravia on DVD at the library and wondered how I had missed it. I'd read the book when it was fairly...
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Mar 10, 20225 min read
Audiobook round-up
I'm completely addicted to having audiobooks on my phone all the time so I can listen in the car and while I'm doing my kitchen work. ...
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Mar 2, 20224 min read
Language studies and survival skills
The Latinist, The Lake of Dead Languages, A Dangerous Education By chance, I've read three books this month that are set in schools in...
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Jan 9, 20223 min read
Nonfiction
Harmon, Claire- Jane's Fame Worley, Jeff (ed.)- What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets Zinsser, William- Writing Places...
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Dec 12, 20213 min read
Alphabet Reading Challenge: s, t, u, w
Strong, Anthony M- The Haunting of Willow House Tarkington, Booth- The Magnificent Ambersons Unsworth, Emma Jane- Grown Ups Walker,...
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Oct 27, 20213 min read
Scary books, fall 2021
Garcia Moreno, Silvia- Certain Dark Things Montell, William Lynwood- Tales of Kentucky Ghosts Strong, Anthony M- The Haunting of Willow...
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Oct 16, 20214 min read
Scary stories
A mix of two stories that you can read for free online, a print book, a story that you can listen to for free online, and two...
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Sep 30, 20213 min read
Goodreads list challenge: August and September
Yang, Susie- White Ivy Mascarenhas, Kate- The Psychology of Time Travel McDermid, Val- Northanger Abbey Moreno-Garcia, Silvia- Velvet Was...
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Sep 19, 20213 min read
Just because reading
Because, ooh, that sounds good right now is reason enough to go off my reading challenges. I'm really beginning to wish that hadn't set...
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Aug 1, 20215 min read
What I've learned from my Goodreads challenge, and summer check-in
I'm going to move my list into Storygraph bit-by-bit. It will import the whole thing, but since I don't like how I set up my list, that doe
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Jun 3, 20213 min read
May 2021 readings
Two books from my Goodreads challenge, one for my alphabet challenge, and a nonfic.
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Jan 18, 20213 min read
The joy of re-reading: Narnia and The Magicians
Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Final Battle, by C. S. Lewis The Magician King, The Magician's Land, by Lev Grossman I listened to...
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Aug 30, 20203 min read
The love of re-reading: The Secret History
The Secret History is one of my favorite books. I missed it when it was new- I was in college and not keeping up with new books.
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