Welcome to my weekly update for November 22, 2020! We’ve been cautiously exploring the San Diego area now for a few weeks. San Diego County was returned to the most restrictive coronavirus tier last weekend so our options are a bit limited. Luckily, my husband’s cousin and his wife are nearby so we’ve been spending […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl prompts us to share “The Top Ten Characters I Would Name a Pet After” this week. This is a fun topic but could be difficult so we’ll see how I do. Dogs Cats Others That’s my list! Have you read any of these? Do you agree with the names […]
For this week’s Nonfiction November prompt, Rennie at What’s Nonfiction invites us to Be the Expert, Ask the Expert, or Become the Expert. Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 15, 2020! Posted: Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2018 edition) by James W. Loewen–4 Stars Book Review: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey–4 Stars Book Review: Hole in the Sky by […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten book titles that would make great song titles this week. This is such a fun topic! Country Don’t Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes by Dixie Cash–Every title in the Domestic Equalizer series by the sister writing duo known as […]
This week for Nonfiction November, Julie at Julz Reads prompts us to create nonfiction and fiction book pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 8, 2020! My husband started his new work assignment last Monday so I feel safe to say that we left Portland, Oregon and we’re now in Oceanside, California, just north of San Diego! We enjoyed our time in Portland but we’re chasing good weather in our RV. We […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, the 6 Degrees of Separation meme asks us to start with one title and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. This month, we’re starting with our last link from a previous chain. I chose Dissolution, from […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten non-bookish hobbies this week. At first I was like, “Non-bookish hobbies? Is that a thing?” But then my brain unfroze and I realized that I do, in fact, have hobbies outside of books. Travel–My husband I love to travel. In fact, we […]
Katie at Doing Dewey, Leann at Shelf Aware, Julie at Julz Reads, and Rennie at What’s Nonfiction are co-hosting Nonfiction November. This is my first time joining in! This week’s discussion prompt, hosted at Shelf Aware is: Take a look back at your year in nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was […]
Welcome to my weekly update for November 1, 2020! I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween! How did you or you kids dress up? If you didn’t, did you see any costumes that stood out to you? Did my readers in the US remember to set your clocks back an hour? I wish […]