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I am the queen of failed challenges, so I know that I will not be signing up for very many this year. However, I watched with interest as first Chris and Debi, and then Amy and Hannah posted on their blogs that they planned on swapping reading lists with each other for 2011. The idea [...]
I have been following Top Ten Tuesdays over at The Broke and the Bookish for quite some time now. I love the themed lists they offer, and love even more pondering the answers different bloggers have. Exploring themed literature is something that I have been taken with these last months, so I was finally able [...]
I have been taking a look around at some of the Best Of lists as they start to make their appearance. It’s always an interesting time of year because in spite of the plethora of books that are published each year, the sames ones show up on the lists over and over again. I decided [...]
Tiffani is a new reader of my blog whom I have traded a number of e-mails on the topic of being an eclectic reader. She has been enjoying my all over the map recommendations, and I asked her if she had any for me. Well, I was expecting that maybe she would list one or [...]
It’s funny the way things work out. Sometimes the books that you like the most and the ones that burrow their way into your mind and heart are two different things. Here is a list of the books from 2009 that are still with me a month, three months, or twelve months after I read [...]
What’s another reading challenge when I had planned to read some Victorian novels anyway? Amanda from The Blog Jar says: I’ve been a bit consumed by the Victorian. It all started with reading Bleak House at the beginning of the year and the need to read Victorian novels and short stories, peppered with Neo-Victorian tales, has [...]
Happy New Year everyone- again! I can’t even believe that we are in the year 2010. It has such a science fiction sounding ring to it, doesn’t it? I feel so futuristic. I hope that everyone has had wonderful holidays and a Happy New Year! I always love starting fresh and I take the opportunity [...]
This year I got myself a 2010 calendar solely for my reading. If I am going to be reading deliberately I need to have some idea of what I am going to be reading and when, right? Right. Now if I could only remember to consult it. I have all of my THIB! dates, guests, [...]
Swapna is hosting the South Asian Author Challenge. She says: This challenge is to encourage people to read books by South Asian Authors – South Asia being India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Please not that it does not include the Middle East! The books can be from any time period, contemporary or classic. There are two requirements [...]
MizB at Should Be Reading is hosting the 2010 TBR Challenge. We can’t change our lists after December 31st so I made sure to have a full 12 alternates to fall back on just in case I find there is stuff that I don’t want to read after all. Here is what she has to [...]