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Musing Mondays: Reading changes

How has your reading changed over the years? Have you started reading more “meaty” books (books with more substance)? Or, have you gone to more “fluffy” reads? Perhaps you’ve done neither, and you’ve just always read the same type of thing! If that’s the case, why? Are you willing to step out of your […]

Booking Through Thursday: Worst best book

What, in your opinion, is the best book that you haven’t liked? Mind you, I don’t mean your most-hated book–oh, no. I mean the most accomplished, skilled, well-written, impressive book that you just simply didn’t like.

With the standard being books I “just simply didn’t like,” there’s so many, largely due to my illiterati […]

Tuesday Thingers: Banned Books Week

For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. Highlight what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your [Library Thing] library.

Because many of the books are aimed at school-age children, I haven’t read and don’t own a lot of […]

Musing Mondays: What I done been reading

This week’s Musing posits several questions so they’re presented separately.

What are you reading right now?

I’m just finishing Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.

Why are you reading what you’re reading? Pleasure? For review? Something else?

I’m reading it for pleasure because it made the Man Booker Prize longlist, it’s set in Stalinist […]

Booking Through Thursday: Most unusual book

What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available on a long flight… whatever? What (not counting school textbooks, though literature read for classes counts) was […]