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Welcome to my weekly update for December 27, 2020!
I hope all who celebrate had a merry Christmas and everyone else had a wonderful week! We noticed these beautiful Christmas lights at the San Diego California Temple as we were driving around and had to stop for a few pictures.
I received a few bookish/blogging gifts. I got this really cool wooden book thumb page holder, the baby Yoda “Read” shirt I asked for, a Travel Listography journal, a bluetooth keyboard, a case for the keyboard that doubles as a tablet/Kindle stand, and the very first edition of a new magazine called Oh Reader. I’m excited about all of these! I hope Santa was good to you as well!
Posted:
A Promised Land by Barack Obama–4 Stars
Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber, read by Laurel Rankin and Luke Daniels–2.5 Stars
Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings (or the library delivers)
Read:
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, read by Christian Coulson
The rest of these books are graphic novels, so my reading speed is not as impressive as it might appear.
The Mean Seasons: Fables Volume 5 by Bill Willingham
Giant Days Volume Two by John Allison, illustrated by Lissa Treiman and Max Sarin
Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis, illustrated by Brooke Allen
Goldie Vance: Volume Two by Hope Larson, illustrated by Brittney Williams
Wires and Nerve: Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer, illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee
Currently Reading:
The Blood: Monstress Volume Two by Marjori Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick, read by Imogen Church
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
Reading Challenges:
I announced 2021 sign ups for several challenges I hosted prior to my long blogging break. I hope you’ll join me!
Books in Translation Reading Challenge
Southern Literature Reading Challenge
New (To You) Narrator Reading Challenge
I also signed up for several other challenges. I may not complete them all but at least they’re nudging me in new directions. The buttons above and the links below take you to the information page for each challenge if you’d like to know more and/or sign up.
Watching:
Klaus on Netflix–Oh my goodness. I think this will go into our regular holiday rotation. It was funny and beautifully animated but had so much heart and such an important message. I highly, highly recommend this one.
Up Next:
Santa (the library) did provide The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey to me for Christmas but I’m wrestling with how to read it. I have access to five–5!–digital libraries due to our constant moving around and, as far as I can tell, not one of them has a Kindle edition of this book. I may just have to use my laptop as a tablet and read it through Adobe Digital Editions.
What did your week look like?
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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27 Comments
Oh Reader seems very interesting! I suspect this is true of many book bloggers, but I spend a decent amount of time thinking about why we read, what I choose to read, etc and it seems like this magazine might address those sorts of topics. I’d love to hear how you like the first issue if you have thoughts to share at some point 🙂
Ooh, that new magazine looks interesting! I’m going to follow them on Instagram and maybe get a subscription. Nice travel journal, too!
I so liked the previous book by Phaedra Patrick, but found this one very disappointing
I just finished The Library of Lost and Found today. It wasn’t as good as The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper but I still liked it. The world would be boring if we all liked the same books though, wouldn’t it? Sorry it didn’t work as well for you!
Your post opened me up to the world of listography – I love lists ! I’ve been thinking to move my TBR/bookish bullet journal to a ring binder at first, collect all the ideas I could pick up for it, and when I’ve decided which categories interested me, transfer it to a notebook. I’m a notebook nerd who loves lists. I’m glad your Christmas presents pleased you so much, the Yoda t-shirt is lovely. Have a great week !
I love notebooks too! I’m sitting here at my computer, slowly responding to comments and going through “Top Ten Books of 2020” lists, with my journal open in front of me so I can add books to it!
My husband and I are reading the Obama book on audiobooks now. It is over 29 hours of listening so it will take us most of 2021 likely. Ha! My “favorites” of 2020 felt more like books that help me escape for a time from the awfulness of the year. Thanks for sharing. Some books I liked in 2020
I love Obama’s voice so I really wanted to listen to the audiobook but I knew that 29 hours would defeat me. There’s just no way I could finish a library checkout of that length in 3 weeks!
I like your Baby Yoda shirt. Hope you had a merry Christmas too!
I was so happy when I opened the package and saw Baby Yoda staring up at me!
What cool bookish gifts! Glad you have such thoughtful givers in your life. 🙂 I am sorely tempted by the Translation challenge but I have so many other things going on … I may enjoy just watching from the sidelines. Wishing you an excellent reading year in 2021.
I keep finding shiny new challenges I want to sign up for! I’m trying to be good now though.
Excellent! Here’s hoping that 2021 has many more great books in store for you!
What great bookish gifts!
I’ve signed up to your Books In Translation challenge, it will push me out of my comfort zone a little.
Wishing you a great reading week, and a joyous new year
The book thumb is a cool idea. The Library of Lost and Found appeals to me of course. I hope you enjoy all your new gifts.
Those are lovely gifts. I had to read my last book club book on my laptop as there wasn’t a kindle version but it wasn’t too bad (it was a short book too).
Wow! You got some super great gifts! So happy for you.
Yes, Klaus is a beautiful movie and we also enjoyed it.
Enjoy your last couple of days of 2020!
Oh man, I need to get that Baby Yoda shirt for me son! He would LOVE it! Happy New Year!
Bookish gifts are awesome. Glad you had a good Christmas. Hope you have a happy new year!
Sounds like you had a great week! I did too, though there was more baking and less reading (even of graphic novels). Here’s to a good final week of 2020!
Looks like you had a great Christmas. Love the bookish gifts! Come see my week here. Happy reading and happy new year!
I loved The Library of Lost and Found, and have a copy of A Promised Land, which I hope to start reading soon.
Enjoy your week, and thanks for visiting my blog.
You got a lot of bookish gifts, and that always makes me happy. I’m eager to see what you think of Travel Listography. It sounds like a book I’d like. And I am off to see if I can subscribe to Oh Reader.
I’ve read more graphic novels than usual this year. In the past I would have said I didn’t really like them, but they have grown on me this year. I may look for some of these.
We missed Klaus, but I will try to remember to give it a whirl next year.
Fathoms sounds promising, too.
Those bookish gifts look really lovely and the lights I think would be wonderful to enjoy. Must take a peek at A Promised Land review.
Glad you had a nice Christmas! I’m all about the baby Yoda stuff now since discovering that series haha! Cool gifts. 🙂
Your graphic novels look great. I think I read the first Lumberjanes a while back, not sure if I left off on vol 2 or the 3rd one. I liked it.
Hope you have a great New Year!
I love getting bookish gifts. Those are always the best. I hope you have a great week. Happy New Year!
I am also doing the Diversity Challenge and look forward to seeing all the diverse authors and characters I can find. I’m interested to hear about the Oh Reader magazine as I haven’t heard of it before.