A Reading Diary | 
First page of my reading record, wish I started earlier!
My year in books according to #goodreads. 2019 was a wonderful reading life for me and I can't wait to dig into 2020's books! 🎉♥️📚🤗
Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for this wonderful card. Any ideas to showcase all these nice cards? I will send a reply off tomorrow!
As we approach the end of October it is time to share our Favourite book from October to help us re-stock those TBR Mountain ranges. 😂
What has been the favourite book you have read during October?
✔ 89 books
✔ 100 books. I'm almost there! 😁
✔ The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
✔ The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter. Will be released on Oct 9, 2018 🍁🍂🍁🍂
#2018CheckIn
pickI love books that talk about the relationship between reader and book. Alberto Manguel is one of my favorite authors in the subject. Here he re-reads a book each month, sharing his thoughts/ memories about the work and using the books as catalysts to process (then) current events.
Manguel always introduces me to new authors. I am not sure the book has aged well because of the events-9/11 and it‘s immediate aftermath-do not have the same urgency.
Oops, forgot my reading stats yesterday! I can't believe another month is over, 2018 is just flying by (and yet Spring just will not materialise)
Favourites: Crime and Punishment, Between the Acts, Kraken, Parade's End.
Ready to start filling in my books for #2018! #bulletjournal #booklog
After last year's ridiculous number of Best Of 2016 lists, I swore I would never do that again. But here we are, and here I go. Starting tomorrow, three a week, on the blog #trishtalkstexts leading up to Christmas. Luckily, each image will show the books, so you won't even have to visit to find out what they are... #blogging #bestoflists #2017 #yaliterature
I've read more books so far this year than I did in the entirety of 2016! 🎉💖📖
#AprilBookShowers Day 15: #BadCoverGoodBook - I ordered this via AbeBooks and did not realize that gently used meant absolutely no cover to speak of. Cries. I am sure I will be lifted though by what is found in the pages. Because book love.
I'm #currentlyreading this for leisure and thought I'd get a bit of reading in before I go out tonight! 😄🎉 #24in48
pickThat's author Alberto Manguel in his personal library in his house in France, which he mentions repeatedly in this book. I truly enjoyed this book, which is basically a love letter from Manguel to some of his favourite reads, including quotes from other books and thoughts that he associates with them, through one year. Manguel has one of those brilliant minds any book lover would love to plunge into like a pool. He's one of my living idols. 💕
The old truisms still hold:that violence breeds violence;that all power is abusive;that fanaticism of any kind is the enemy of reason;that propaganda is propaganda even when it purports to rally us against iniquity;that war is never glorious except in the eyes of the victors, who believe that God is on the side of the big battalions. Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books:to find words for what we already know
"We read what we want to read, not what the author wrote."
Some wisdom from one of the top 5 living writers I would like to have coffee with ☕️??
"We have been in our house in France for just over a year, and already I have to leave, to visit my family in Buenos Aires. I don't want to go. I want to enjoy the village in summer, the garden, the house kept cool by the thick, ancient walls. I want to start setting up the books on the shelves we have just had built. I want to sit in my room and work." #firstlines
An aperçu with curiously modern resonance, noted in Manguel's Reading Diary.
Aaaaah yesssss books!!!!
One of many reasons why we read ...
