One task for the Support Book Bloggers challenge is to write a guest post on another blog, or host one on your own. This month, I reviewed the new Folio Society edition of The Tombs of Atuan for Shiny New Books, a review site founded by book bloggers. I hope you'll check it out and … Continue reading #BookBloggerSupport22 Challenge: Write a guest post
I love this topic, as I look back to see what serendipitous fiction/nonfiction pairings emerge in the course of my reading year. Visit What's Nonfiction for the linkup. Once more, there were the obvious literary pairings -- Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar with the biography of Plath, Red Comet; Beverly Cleary's memoirs A Girl … Continue reading #NonFicNov: Book Pairing
Hello nonfiction readers! It's always a pleasure to get to share these lists. Please visit Nonfiction November host Doing Dewey this week for more. Counting from last year's Nonfiction November, here's what I consider my outstanding discoveries of the year: Have you read any of these? Did you love them too? As you can see … Continue reading #NonFicNov: Your Year in Nonfiction
It's here! Witch Week, a celebration of fantasy books and authors, is an event I cooked up in my first year of blogging and it's been going ever since, now ably hosted by Calmgrove and Lizzie Ross Writer. This year's theme is Polychromancy and here is the exciting lineup of posts: Day 1: Monday 31st October. Daphne … Continue reading Witch Week 2022
This month, for the Support Book Bloggers Challenge I thought I'd shake things up a bit and look for some random blogs I would not have come across otherwise. I scrolled through the Search panel of WordPress Reader and picked out a few posts that caught my eye, then commented on them. As a bonus, … Continue reading #BookBloggerSupport22 Challenge
I got through this month's Dark Is Rising readalong book, Greenwitch, in extra quick time. It's the shortest book in the series, and I remember it as one of my favorites. I was swept along again by this atmospheric tale that contains elements of horror but also of elegaic beauty. I don't think it's necessary … Continue reading #TDiRS22: The sea, the sea
It's been a while since I did one of these posts. There is no lack of books on my shelves waiting for me to read them, however, so I thought I'd better ask your help again. This month, I'm featuring some of the beautiful illustrated books that I lugged along with me across the Atlantic … Continue reading Make Me Read It: Beautiful illustrated books edition
A friendly reminder that Witch Week is on its way, October 31 to November 5. This event, which I started in my first year of blogging, now ably hosted by Calmgrove and Lizzie Ross, Writer, celebrates fantasy books and authors during the week designated by Diana Wynne Jones as "a time when anything can happen." … Continue reading Witch Week is coming …
This week's TTT focuses on books with covers that are all or mostly text-based. I love me a good typographic cover, but I could not think of any off the top of my head, so I scrolled through my Goodreads lists of read and want-to-read books to see what I could find. It was not … Continue reading Top Ten Typographic Covers
The second book of the Dark Is Rising readalong, hosted by AnnaBookBel, is The Dark Is Rising itself -- originally titled The Gift of Gramarye, but a publisher nixed that because of the fear that young readers would think the book was about grammar. Point taken, but in fact the chapter in which our protagonist, … Continue reading #TDiRS22: Into the darkness
