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Musing Mondays: Mid-year reading report

Now that we’ve come to the middle of the year, what do you think of your 2009 reading so far? Read anything interesting that you’d like to share? Any outstanding favourites?

My reading so far this year indicates my translated literature fixation continues. Not surprisingly, then, it accounts for one of my favorites this […]

Musing Mondays: Award winners

Do you feel compelled to read prize-winning (Giller/Booker/Pulitzer etc) books? Why, or why not? Is there, perhaps, one particular award that you favour?

I don’t know that compelled is the right term, although I have become somewhat more attentive to them in the past couple years.

I still make sure I have a copy […]

Booking Through Thursday: Sticky books

This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Quick AND easy, especially since I’m copying my Desert Island Books and a couple books that just fell short […]

Booking Through Thursday: Gluttony? Guilty!!

Book Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you […]

Musing Mondays: TBR anxiety

How many books (roughly) are in your tbr pile? Is this in increasing number or does it stay stable? Do you ever experience tbr anxiety in the face of this pile?

 

Sadly, my TBR pile has grown to the point it is now a now a three-shelf bookcase next to my side […]