My year in books! Not as many as some years, but still happy to have met my goal. 💯
CoverToCoverGirl Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻🎉 3y
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues | 
My year in books! Not as many as some years, but still happy to have met my goal. 💯
pickI really enjoyed this. Pamela Paul keeps a book of books (BOB) and has for years. I might need to try this as my journal attempts are dismal. I could probably keep up with something like this. Maybe I should just print off my Bookly graphics and stick them in a book with comments. Hmmmm. We will see.
I like to find stacks of books in magazines the stick them on bookmarks! I also love books about books 📚😉🤓
#booksonbookmarks #bookbookmark #booksonbooks
pickI seem to be attracted to, but usually disappointed by, books about readers: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Howard‘s End is on the Landing, The Year of Reading Dangerously. They sometimes increased my TBR, but left me feeling like something was missing. This one was different. While at times I almost violently disagreed with the author‘s decisions, she kept me engaged. And a few times I felt like she saw inside my head, 👇🏻
Fresh cherries and a new book. 🙂
This is so interesting. Some books I can recall very well, particularly those I‘ve read multiple times. But some I can barely remember at all. How about you?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-we-forget-most-of-the-books-we-read
My mom has been keeping a list of books she‘s read since 2000 in her small spiral-bound notebook. Recently she‘s complained about checking out library books she‘s already read, so I offered to type up her list into an easily searchable spreadsheet. This week I got a package with this notebook and some Valentine‘s chocolate to sweeten the deal. Really I‘m just nosy about people‘s reading habits and enjoying this glimpse into my mom‘s. #bookofbooks
pickPaul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and has kept a small notebook at her side most of her life, chronicling every book she‘s read. This is the story of the life lived among those books.
bailedTo be clear, there's nothing wrong with this book. I'm just not into it. It's well written, and some of the anecdotes told are engrossing, BUT I want to be reading a story, and the story here seems to have been told in its entirety on the book blurb that made me want to read it in the first place.
I might be trapped for the time being, but at least my captor is willing to be used as a bookstand.
so-soWhat I thought this was going to be: a full-on nerdy, obsessive book ABOUT books. What this is: a chatty memoir of the author as reader, or #FirstWorldProblemsWithBooks. I liked it well enough, though I found large parts skimmable. I enjoyed Paul best as a narrator when her second marriage & kids entered the picture. Memoirs are personal & subjective & readers respond differently. It was mostly an OK read, but I was left craving more book talk.
pickThis is an enjoyable and more #literary take on the #bookaboutbooks theme. Many books about books are charming and nostalgic, but the editor of the New York Times Book Review, unsurprisingly, presents a more sophisticated perspective. A good read.
