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By C. Janelle Posted on February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Bookends: January 2023

In January I focused on reading from the Tournament of Books Shortlist. I made some decent progress and completed 10 of the 18 titles. I finished 7 in December (well, … Continue reading Bookends: January 2023

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Books, reading
By C. Janelle Posted on January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

2022: My Year in Books

This year was a more adventurous year than I’ve had since 2019. My family traveled for three weeks this summer (two weeks road tripping through western states hiking in high … Continue reading 2022: My Year in Books

Categories: BooksTags: Annual report, bookends, Books, Build Your Library curriculum, reading, TheStoryGraph, year in books
By C. Janelle Posted on November 30, 2022December 4, 2022

Bookends: November 2022

I read long ago that if you take a blogging break, there’s no need even to mention it when you return, so this is me not mentioning it. November was … Continue reading Bookends: November 2022

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Books, reading
By C. Janelle Posted on January 1, 2021

2020: My Year in Books

At the beginning of 2020, I set my Goodreads challenge goal at 52 books, just over half as many books as I read in 2019. I hypothesized that the book-a-week … Continue reading 2020: My Year in Books

Categories: BooksTags: Annual report, Beanstack, bookends, Books, Build Your Library curriculum, Goodreads, LibraryThing, litsy, reading, TheStoryGraph, year in books
By C. Janelle Posted on April 1, 2020September 1, 2020

Bookends: March 2020

My spouse likes to tell the story of the day he, our toddler, and I were driving home from an errand and we saw a van hit a pedestrian. My … Continue reading Bookends: March 2020

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Books
By C. Janelle Posted on March 5, 2020December 16, 2020

Bookends: December 2019 – February 2020

These past few months saw a lot of books, both fiction and nonfiction, about violence (war, murder, sexual assault), suicide, mental illness, and adoption. I tend to gravitate towards darker … Continue reading Bookends: December 2019 – February 2020

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Books
By C. Janelle Posted on January 25, 2020December 16, 2020

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell

Helen Moran is in her shared studio apartment in Manhattan accepting delivery of her roommate’s new IKEA sofa when she gets the call telling her that her brother is dead. … Continue reading Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell

Categories: BooksTags: audiobooks, book review, Books, Mental Health
By C. Janelle Posted on January 9, 2020December 16, 2020

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

The Art of War is the first of the titles on my Cavalcade of Classics, Round 2 list that I’ve finished this year. Making progress! Filled with guidance about war … Continue reading The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Books, Cavalcade of Classics, Classics Club, The Art of War
By C. Janelle Posted on December 6, 2019

Bookends: November 2019

Our November was filled with mad science, unexpected reunions with family, and more rain than we usually see around these parts. With all of that going on, December snuck up … Continue reading Bookends: November 2019

Categories: BooksTags: beach, book review, bookends, Books
By C. Janelle Posted on November 1, 2019December 6, 2019

Bookends: October 2019

Ah, October! Santa Ana winds, a three-day jaunt to the desert (the “real” desert, not the coastal Southern California desert), taking my kids to the thrift store to buy costume … Continue reading Bookends: October 2019

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Books, Joshua Tree, litsy
By C. Janelle Posted on October 4, 2019December 16, 2020

Bookends: September 2019

This month’s book totals are a little inflated due to the picture books and early readers I read for the Birth and Beyond Reading Challenge (#BBRC) on Litsy. Still, even … Continue reading Bookends: September 2019

Categories: BooksTags: book review, bookends, Books, litsy
By C. Janelle Posted on June 14, 2019December 16, 2020

Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates

Plot summary, gleaned from the book jacket flap: “A recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back … Continue reading Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Books, dystopian fiction, Joyce Carol Oates

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