A page from my sketchbook. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings We got our first Covid shots! And our second Covid shots! Two steps closer to quasi-normal life! I'm very excited about it (if you couldn't tell). It took almost two weeks to get an appointment and we'd been checking every day and then all of … Continue reading April Showers Bring May Roundups
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It has been a long time since I've written. Since that time I've spent 3 weeks in Taiwan and 10 days in Paris. I've got travel posts coming, but I thought today I'd start with a book post. This week's … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 5 Books I Didn’t Really Like, But I’m Still Glad I Read
The other day, I read this article on LitHub about books that would make terrible films. It's an interesting concept, especially when you think about how many books are made into movies and how many stories seem perfect for this kind of adaptation. I've only read one book on the author's list, One Hundred Years … Continue reading Books that Would Make Awful Films
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic was characters that would make excellent leaders. This proved to be very interesting, and in picking characters I also thought about 10 traits that are important for leaders. I tried to pick characters that weren't filling … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Fictional Characters who Would Make Great Leaders
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Let me just say that I'm not really good at reading books in one sitting. I'm not even very good at reading one book at a time. If I've "lost" my current book around the house, I'll just pick up another one. … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Read In a Day
Title: Sula Author: Toni Morrison How it fulfills the challenge: Toni Morrison is a person of color, and many of her books center on what it is like to be a black woman in America. Sula was nominated for the National Book Award, and her 1987 novel, Beloved, won the Pulitzer prize. Genre: Fiction Quick Description: Morrison's book is a study … Continue reading Reading Challenge #5: A Book By a Person of Color
Title: Ragnarok Author: A.S. Byatt How it fulfills the challenge: This book is an adaptation of the Norse end of the world myth (Ragnarok) Genre: Fiction (maybe could be considered fantasy? Literary Fantasy...) Quick Description: A detailed and almost poetic interpretation of a Norse myth with amazing imagery and a complex look at good and evil, power and … Continue reading Reading Challenge #52: A Book Based on Mythology
Title: Victory of Eagles Author: Naomi Novik How it fulfills the challenge: This book takes place during the Napoleonic wars, though the battles that are depicted never actually happened. Genre: Fantasy Quick Description: In the 5th book of the Temeraire series, the dragon's captain, Laurence, has been branded a traitor and Temeraire has been sent to the breeding grounds, no … Continue reading Reading Challenge #28: A Novel Set During Wartime
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I think that you find books at the right times to read them...or you don't and you miss out on that book. Sometimes the book is the right one for you, and you can read it over and over again without it … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I’ve Read Recently that I Wasn’t Looking For But Glad I Found
Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern How it fulfills the challenge: The Night Circus is one of those books that uses its imaginative and fantastical powers to charm and delight. The circus Morgenstern creates is one that I would love to experience. It's a book that made me happy the first time I read it, and … Continue reading Reading Challenge #18: A Book You’ve Read Before that Never Fails to Make You Smile
