“Monday’s Minutes” is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life.
Currently Reading:
Finished:
Total pages read this week: 852
Total books for the year: 84 of 75. I was in Tubac all of last week, so this week’s post is for the past 2 weeks.
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 6th and runs through Sunday, January 12th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 27 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team
I love starting out a New Year with a readathon, especially when it’s a week-long readathon. It’s even better when it’s the 2nd week, rather than the 1st of the year, giving me some time to settle in to my new annual reading goal.
I will be posting an update each day with the amount of time I read, the number of pages read that day and the titles of any of the books I’ve finished.
“Monday’s Minutes” is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life.
Currently Reading:
Finished:
Total pages read this week: 390
Total books for the year: 77 of 75. I’m now crocheting an electronics organizer that can be draped over a table or chair and will have different sized pockets for a tablet, e-reader, phone, etc.
“Monday’s Minutes” is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life.
Currently Reading:
Finished:
Total pages read this week: 605
Total books for the year: 75 of 75. There was an “Easy Crochet Slippers” pattern in one of the issues of my favorite magazine, “Mary Jane’s Farm,” and I’m enjoying making something other than small blankets for my cat.
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz – GO. The story takes place during WWII, but the synopsis uses the term “Wicca”, even though that term wasn’t used until the 1950’s (“Wica”, with the double ‘c’ not used until the 1960’s). Maybe I’m being picky, but I’ve read enough Dan Brown books to be over the sloppy use of the Occult and Apocrypha in Fiction.
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler- KEEP. I’ve already read Parable of the Sower, and while I had no interest in the religious elements, the near-future world the characters are living in was scary and all too believable to put the book down.
Path of Fate by Diana Pharoah Francis – KEEP. I’m skeptical, but I’ll give it the 50 page test at some point.
Saffron and Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand – KEEP. I tend to love short story collections by Open Road Media, so I’ll try this one out.
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen – KEEP. I was going to pass this one up, but the synopsis mentions that the characters live in “a world without men”, and I want to know if that means they’re segregated for some reason or if something has happened to the men.
My TBR pile is down one more to 655 books, and I’ve got 4 more Open Road Media books to look through for next week before I get into a Cozy Mystery binge I found myself indulging in during April of 2017.
