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#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. I started the year wanting to read more physical books from my shelves, focus less on challenges & the like, & spend more time with each book.

2. I‘ve been making a categories list for #bookspin & #doublespin & choosing titles at the start of the month for those, participating in #aam #sundaybuddyread & #hashtagbrigaide. Everything else is mood reads.

3. Lifelong learning, armchair travel, endless entertainment.

#hashtagbrigaide I‘m feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of tackling our Jan-Mar book, but know I‘m more likely to stick with it if I get a physical copy. I found this article to try and sort out the huge number of translations available https://welovetranslations.com/2022/01/10/whats-the-best-translation-of-the-brot... in case it helps any of you, but I‘d love recommendations on editions or translators from Littens who are in the know

I loved my first Barbara Pym, but at the end of the month I‘m still not sure why. What is it we respond to in a novel when nothing much happens and the characters aren‘t especially likeable? Is it the truth of the character sketches, the writing itself, some tiny piece of our own lives we recognize…? #hashtagbrigaide #pemberlittens @BarkingMadRead

I read the first chapter of our new #hashtagbrigaide book this morning and I‘m loving it so far! But the copy I borrowed from Libby has an unforgivably ugly cover, so I‘m pretending I‘m reading out of the fun purple edition I‘ve been seeing around instead.🤫#pemberlittens @BarkingMadRead

It‘s been a while since I participated in a readathon, but I‘m feeling relieved that #20in4 starts tomorrow so I can dip my toes back in gently before #scarathlon starts. This weekend my goal is to get caught up on #LotRChapterADay finish A Passage to India with #hashtagbrigaide and start a new spooky audiobook on the 1st. @Andrew65

Question for @jenniferw88 and anyone else who‘s read this before… #Hashtagbrigaide is about 1/4 of the way through now and I‘m excited about reading something written in ‘24 that was already exploring race relations and colonialism, and there are passages of exquisite writing that pop up occasionally and make me happy, BUT most of the time this just makes me angry,⬇️⬇️⬇️