#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
January 2026
BTW, I'm loving all the posts about challenges and read-alongs. So much love for books and reading is so refreshing to see. Happy to have this community ❤
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#bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
January 2026
BTW, I'm loving all the posts about challenges and read-alongs. So much love for books and reading is so refreshing to see. Happy to have this community ❤
Chapter 2 is a doozy! I love any narrative that reminds us to reflect on labor history and the rights of workers and this chapter is IT. The Luddite uprisings are in full swing and the pitiless capitalist known as Robert Moore is bringing in new machinery, which the workers cannot abide. Despite how the term is used today, the Luddites were not explicitly anti-tech; they were pro-worker, which included highly skilled craftspeople, i.e. artists.
Vonnegut choosing Valley Of The Dolls as the only English language book a group of aliens has to give to Billy is such an interesting choice for Vonnegut.
It has me curious if I was writing a book and my aliens were to give a book to their captive what would it be?
Some of my 2026 books for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #USPresidents and #PROUST2026
I‘ll be reading an ebook version of Swann‘s Way so I can enlarge the font, but referring to my mom‘s BOTM copy to keep track of page count. There‘s a bookmark that indicates she made it to page 29—let‘s see if I can get farther. 😆
Ch 2: #holyheck #thesemenhatewomen #ugh #karmacomesfast #starvingvillagersrevolt #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
Samuel Richardson's “Pamela“ (“or, Virtue Rewarded in a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel to her Parents“) dominated my fall reading: Pamela itself, responses to Pamela, commentary about Pamela and the Pamela controversy ...
It's not a favorite, not even close, not even for September, but without it then my 2025 reading would have been very different, and I'd have missed some rewarding reading.
#12BooksOf2025
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repost for @BarbaraJean
With the holiday chaos, I've neglected to post a #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead schedule for January and beyond...but here it is now!
We'll start with an #LMMReread of Magic for Marigold, then it's on to #LMMAdjacent reads: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte, and Tish Plays the Game. Then we can decide if we want to read/re-read Jane Eyre together. We'll jump back into the #LMMJournals sometime in March or April!
“If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard.“
😂🤣 These opening paragraphs are 💯
#HashtagBrigade @BarkingMadRead
