I traverse my reading year with Gamache books waiting for me along the way. Self-imposed rules mean that I read these books in the season which they are set, but in 2017 that still meant an embarrassment of Louise Penny and Ralph Cosham* riches as Bury Your Dead, The Hangman**, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, and How the Light Gets In happen chronologically between January and December, although across several years. *Ralph Cosham narrated the first ten Inspector Gamache novels before he […]
Happy Jolobokaflod!!
Happy Joloblokaflod from the Horgan family! Thanks to The Mama, Ale, Crystal Clear, and faintingviolet!! Please note, the Patriots fleece blanket is not in the photo — joemyjoe is already reading a book underneath it and will not give it up! Thanks all! Happy holidays! Scootsa1000, Bunnybean, Joemyjoe, and Loubear
Dig a Little Deeper, Read a Little Harder
For the first time in three years I am giving up on the Read Harder Challenge. Changing jobs in November (yay!) and the coming holiday bonanza has cut more severely than I anticipated into my reading time. I have knocked my review goal down to 75 from 78 and jettisoned four books from my to read list that would have completed this year’s challenge. (Expect to see some of them next year.) The book I didn’t purge was this one, August. One of the challenges […]
A Trilogy Comes to a Close, and I’m Okay With That
I usually set myself up with reading landmarks throughout the year, to keep things interesting for myself. It also helps to keep me on pace. The past three years I have ‘read with my ears’ Tessa Dare’s Stud Club series. It was a random choice, to pick this series to enjoy via audiobook, but I’ve stuck with it and it been for the good. The narrator, Rosalyn Landor, handles the text superbly and I’m fairly certain she improves upon Dare’s early, sometimes uneven, work. Because […]