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Booking Through Thursday: Wintery books

What are the most “wintery” books you can think of? The ones that almost embody Winter?

The two books that come to mind are about as diametrical as you can get.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s description of the conditions in which the gulag prisoners work in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich has stayed […]

Booking Through Thursday: A gift twofer

Likely because next Thursday is Christmas, there’s two Booking Through Thursday subjects this week, addressed separately below:

Do you give books as gifts?

To everyone? Or only to select people?

How do you feel about receiving books as gifts?

I will buy books as presents for family members because I have a general idea […]

Musing Mondays: Don’t leave home without it?

I always like to have a book with me at all times – call it a nerdy grown-up security blanket – and rarely do I leave the house without slipping one into my bag (even if I KNOW I’m not going to have a chance to read it). Do you take a book with […]

Booking Through Thursday: Reading time

1. Do you get to read as much as you WANT to read?

(I’m guessing #1 is an easy question for everyone?)

2. If you had (magically) more time to read–what would you read? Something educational? Classic? Comfort Reading? Escapism? Magazines?

Of course the answer to No. 1 is no. There are two things […]

Musing Mondays: Time between books

How long do you wait after finishing a book before you pick/start another one? How many books do you have planned ahead or do you pick up random books from your tbr pile (if you have one)? Do you review right away or keep reading and come back to it later?

It really depends […]