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Top Ten Books of 2020
This train wreck of a year is finally ending and it’s time to post my top ten books of 2020! I revived my book blog in June so I haven’t written reviews for all of these. I’m leaving out books that I re-read and these obviously weren’t all published this year; I simply read them in 2020. Here we go […]
Top 10 Book Covers on My Overdrive Wish List
This week’s Top 10 Tuesday is a fun one: “Cover Freebie (choose your own topic, centered on book covers or cover art).” I decided to list the top 10 book covers on my Overdrive wish list. In alphabetical order: Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly–The art deco font and flourishes really catch my eye in this Continue Reading…
Weekly Update for August 30, 2020
Welcome to my weekly update for August 30, 2020! For our mid-week hike, my husband and I drove up to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood for a short-ish leg stretcher. He was willing to go further but I just wasn’t feeling it that day. Being East Coasters, we were surprised to see so many people at the lodge skiing and snowboarding in […]
Weekly Update for August 23, 2020
Welcome to my weekly update for August 23, 2020! My husband and I like to explore on weekdays when he’s off and most people are at work, making trails less crowded. So on Tuesday, we drove up to Mount St. Helens for the day for some hiking. It wasn’t as classically beautiful as Mt. Rainier Continue Reading…
Books for Netflix Adaptations
I think this might be my very first Top Ten Tuesday! I blogged for seven years from 2009 – 2016 and just started blogging again at the end of June. I was certainly aware of these weekly lists, so I don’t know why I’ve never joined in before! Anyway, on to my list of books Continue Reading…
Weekly Update for August 16, 2020
Welcome to my weekly update for August 16, 2020! Two of the biggest natural tourist attractions in Oregon are the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Highway and Multnomah Falls. State officials closed them before we arrived here in April because of COVID-19. They finally re-opened on Thursday! We set out to explore on Friday. The air Continue Reading…
Weekly Update for July 26, 2020
Welcome to my weekly update for July 26, 2020! I’m writing this ahead of time as my husband’s 50th birthday is (was, as you’re reading this) on July 25! It’s hard to believe that we’ve been together almost two decades. He was a whipper-snapper of 31 when we met. What a life we’ve led in Continue Reading…
Weekly Update July 19, 2020
Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful week! My birthday was yesterday but we just spent a quiet day at home. My husband made my favorite French toast for breakfast. We ordered my favorite pizza in Portland (and possibly anywhere) for dinner and then we finished off with a mini pecan praline cake from Continue Reading…
Six in Six 2020
Jo at The Book Jotter hosts Six in Six 2020, a yearly meme that helps us reflect back on our mid-year reading. The idea is to choose six categories from the list provided and list six books you’ve read that fit in those categories. Since I just started blogging again about a month ago, I Continue Reading…
Cinder by Marissa Meyer: Book Review
4 Stars. I had my reservations about this. I love me a retold fairy tale, don’t get me wrong. But it’s all science-fictiony. Cyborgs? Androids? Not my thing. And then it’s set in a future that sounds a little post-apocalyptic? Definitely not my thing. And yet, searching around for something mildly dystopian to read for a reading […]
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey: Book Review
4 Stars. This was not what I expected, but I’m not complaining. I expected more of a science-fictiony werewolf story and that’s not really what this is. The nonhuman? superhuman? other-than-human? side of Loup definitely defines a large part of her life, but it’s not really what drives […]