Sorry this is a little bit late.
Here are my plans:
📚finish Half-Blood Prince & Last Mission to Tokyo
📚read The Bookbinder & Bloodletting and miraculous cures
#novelnovember
#bookreport: A much better week of reading; I finished two books this past week (I read about 15 and a half hours) and feel quite pleased with myself. I will post my reviews later on, but fairly soon.
#weeklyforecast:
#currentlyreading: I am still working on Last Mission to Tokyo and am in the midst of reading HP and the Half-Blood Prince and should get that completed fairly soon.
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#bookreport: nothing was finished this past week; didn't read much due to not feeling well 🤒
#weeklyforecast
#CurrentlyReading: I have a bookclub coming up on Saturday for the Half-Blood Prince and am still in the midst of Order of the Phoenix. Still slogging through Last Mission and am hoping to finish All the Quiet Places
#upcomingreads: These two are bookclub books, one of which I will not be attending due to not feeling well.
Here are my #roll100 selections for November; decided to go with my no. 1 selection.
#outstandingoctober wrap-up:
📚I read most days for about 30 minutes, but some days I didn‘t pick up a book, but my reading has become more regular.
📚 Finished both When the Elephants Dance and The Dictionary of Lost Words, plus a couple other books.
📚 Didn‘t quite finish a line on my #bookspinbingo card, but I‘m close. I‘m also close to completing my #doublespin book
Overall I feel quite successful with the #readathon
#bookreport
Finished three books this past week, mainly yesterday during #deweyoct. All had aspects that I enjoyed, some more than others.
#weeklyforecast
#currentreads: Am reading Order of the Phoenix because I didn't finish it earlier this year and I do need to read Half-Blood Prince for next month. Last Mission was a #roll100 selection and so far it is very interesting.
pick4.5⭐️ When I went back to see how I had reviewed this book a couple years ago, I was surprised to find that I had given it exactly the same rating as I did this time. But I think I appreciated the romance between Esme and Gareth a little more this time around than my first time reading it. #2023 #bookclub #reread #bookreview #wwi #fiction #historicalfiction #reesesbookclub
so-so3.5⭐️ There were aspects of the book that I liked, but there were also aspects that I didn‘t enjoy. I also felt that the book read slower than I expected. #2023 #bookclub #wwii #pacificwar #fiction #historicalfiction #bookreview
I‘m starting to get a bit tired. Been up since 5 am Pacific and I read for a little over 10 hours, read almost 700 pages and completed 3 books. I‘ve had a blast reading today. I also managed to get a lot of podcasts listened to and am very close to catching up on them. #readathon #deweyoct
How I‘m feeling today with #deweyoct #readathon today. I‘ve read a little over 7 hours and have completed 3 books. Onto something a little bit different for the time being.
Watching this as I eat my dinner #booktomovie #deweyoct
My #readathon dinner. I finished When the Elephants Dance and have almost finished The Dictionary of Lost Words. Reviews will be up either sometime tomorrow or Monday. #deweyoct
pick4⭐️ 1st book for #deweysreadathon; a nice read to start off with. I started at the start time but fell asleep at around 6:30 am and woke up about 30 minutes later. #deweyoct #readathon #childrens #middlegrade #2023 #bookreview #fiction #classics #newberyhonor #greatamericanread
Went to Kelowna in September to see family and went to two bookstores. I got the bottom book at the tagged bookstore (would love to have a bookstore like that here nearby). The other three I got at Indigo in Kelowna (the Emily Henry book was $25; its regular price is $37 here in Canada).
#bookreport: Finished two books this past week. The Golden Spruce was very interesting, but the author seemed to spend more time on the history of forestry than on the actual events that led up to the chopping down of the Golden Spruce. The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary was very fascinating and was also made me put the book down for a bit because of how I wanted the ending to be different.
pick4.75⭐️ Really enjoyed this adaptation. I had heard about the book through various sources that were talking about how the book had been banned in a number of jurisdictions in the past few months. Strongly recommend reading the author‘s note at the end of the book. #2023 #bookreview #adaptations #graphicnovels #bookstagram #nonfiction
It‘s that time of the month again where @Andrew65 ‘s monthly #readathon takes place.
My goals are:
📚read for at least 30 minutes
📚finish When the Elephants Dance and The Dictionary of Lost Words
📚get at least one line completed for #bookspinbingo and get my #doublespin book completed
#outstandingoctober
pick3.5⭐️ It was something that I was glad to have read, even though I probably wouldn‘t have picked it up on my own. #2023 #bookclub #bookstagram #nonfiction #bookreview #mystery #truecrime #biography #britishcolumbia #forestindustry
pick4.5⭐️ I enjoyed the book for this #reread. I think it was that I understood the book better than my first reading a few years ago. I can see why people still enjoy this book. #2023 #bookclub #bookreview #lgbtq #bookstagram #historicalfiction #fiction
Now I‘m probably not going to read a lot of scary books, but this perfectly ties in with the #24hourreadathon later on in October. Check out @Catsandbooks for more details. #31by31readathon #31by31
I am going to try for 31 hours.
You can find more information here: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2638414
I feel that a child should read whatever they are interested in, even if the author or books are problematic. Yes this includes the Harry Potter and the Little House books. The reason that I feel this way is because I feel that people, including children, should be exposed to a variety of points of view, whether they agree with them or not.
#bookreport: Didn‘t read that much but I am reading more regularly. Finished Seven Husbands last night; review to come later.
#weeklyforecast: Plan to finish Little Fires, as I have about a couple hours left to read. Planning to start either The Golden Spruce or When the Elephants Dance or restart In Memorium this week.
#upcoming: May continue with Charlotte‘s Web or start Dictionary of Lost Words later this week. Happy reading.
#bookreport: Had a really good week of reading. I read for a total of about 7 hours, finished 2 books and averaged about 108 pages a day. Most days I read for over an hour, except for two.
#weeklyforcecast: I am pretty sure that I will be finishing Evelyn Hugo and Little Fires, as I have about 2 hours left in each book, based on the pace I am reading at.
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pick5⭐️ To say that I enjoyed the book would undermine the story that Ms. Beaton told in this #graphicnovel. What the author tells is a very powerful story, despite the complicated nature of the story. It‘s really hard to pin down what I liked about the book. But I think it was her being honest about went on in the camps in northern Alberta which made it a winner for me #2023 #nonfiction #memoir #bookreview #bookstagram
pick4⭐️ I read this for a #bookclub meeting today and quite enjoyed it. Some of the things was a little bit dry but found it enjoyable. #2023 #reread #sciencfiction #fiction #bookreview #bookstagram
#weeklyreport
My reading is slowly coming back. I find that I can read read for about 30-45 minutes at a time, but its usually closer to 30 minutes most times. I currently am working on The Martian and Seven Husbands for my book meetings this week. And when those are done, I will get onto In Memorium and When the Elephants Dance. I will attempt to work on Little Fires and Charlotte's Web, but I have some others in the wings to work on.
I have been listening to this podcast series during the summer. I will warn you that your notion of Laura and The #littlehouse series will be changed. Highly recommended.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-wilder-112847598/
pick4⭐️ I really quite liked the overall story. Was chosen as a #bookclub read and read it while I was on my Oregon/Mt. St. Helen‘s trip. Definitely for those that like #familydrama ‘s. I think one reason that I enjoyed it was that it felt realistic and felt like the author really had in mind what she wanted to write. Didn‘t blow my mind by any means, but was engaging enough for me to stick with the book and enjoy it.
1) Julie & Julia
2) Forrest Gump
3) That I can go swimming before the warm weather goes away.
#wondrouswednesday
Since I have the weekend free, I will be joining, if I remember.
My selections are:
• The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• The Martian
• In Memorium
• When the Elephants Dance
#20in4
Me with Ramona on the Beverly Cleary walking tour yesterday.
On the Ramona walking tour in Portland #ramona #beverlycleary
pick5⭐️ I was really surprised that I liked this book. While I wasn‘t really surprised at how well the story was written, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it and how much it drew me in. I also liked how the author made the cancer storyline very believable. I didn‘t know I had breast cancer until there was a shooting pain in my breast; breast cancer doesn‘t always make itself known with the usual signs. ⤵️
1) Day after Labour Day (it‘s just a half day for the kids, with the rest of the day being basically a PD day for the teachers.
2) Tagged book. I read that book so many times, even though I didn‘t have a copy until recently.
#two4tuesday
I‘m feeling very frustrated my inability to focus on reading books for long periods of time. I‘m lucky if I can focus on a book for more than a few minutes without my mind wandering off and thinking about something else and then struggling with whatever I am reading at the moment. So to ease the pressure, I‘m going to postpone going to my library book clubs until such time I can focus on a book better.⤵️
#bookreport: Didn't finish anything this past week, but I am recovering from surgery and my cancer treatments (I have heard it can take up to 18 months after radiation treatments to fully recover) and I am hoping that this week I can finally finish something.
#weeklyforecast
#currentlyreading: I will be starting The Cure for Death by Lightning this coming week and continuing to read Order of the Phoenix and In Memoriam. Continued below...
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with breast cancer about two years ago and went through its subsequent treatments, including starting my breast reconstruction. So on June 23rd, I had the second half of that reconstruction, in which the balloon that expanded the skin in my breast area was taken out and a prothesis was put in as a result. I also had a lift on my right side done to make my breasts look symmetrical.
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1) Yes I have had a book signed
2) yep. Usually it‘s because I have misplaced a book and forgot where I put it.
3) Probably the world of Harry Potter
#wondrouswednesday
1) probably to a quiet beach resort where I could spend the day reading with plenty of libations being brought to me,
2) I probably would go on my own
#two4tuesday
1) The Odyssey; it was originally written in the late 8th or early 7th century BC
2) 6 or 7
3) The Little House and Harry Potter series
#wondrouswednesday
1) The tagged book. I only listened to the book because I had heard really great things about the audiobook.
2) Lots. The radiation treatments from a year ago are still wearing me out, especially when I do a number of things in a day.
#two4tuesday
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