It might be clear by now that my September and October reading is dominated by Halloween Bingo. We are about two weeks in and my reading is not really what I had hoped. I feel like I have a light reading slump. Still finishing some books, but it takes much more time than usual. I... Continue Reading →
It's been 100 years since Agatha Christie's first novel was published. I like myself some reading projects, and with the Little Black Classics finished, and the Little Mint Classics waiting for next year, I felt I was up for another regular reading project. It was at that time that I got an invitation to the... Continue Reading →
Yeah! I am really excited because today starts the Halloween Bingo! We were playing this for the last couple of years over on BL, and I am just so glad that it could be salvaged from the ruins of the site. Many thanks to Christine, Obsidian and Char for organizing this! We are playing over... Continue Reading →
Or: how I failed at reading. So, I had great expectations for Bout of Book #29 - you can revisit my enthusiasm at the start here. However, once the event started I immediately felt this was not going to be a great week for reading. It is so typical because this is what usually happens... Continue Reading →
Or: Some statistics on a Saturday Recently I finished the last of the 127 books from the Little Black Classics collection, which were all published by Penguin in 2015-2016. Small bites of Classics, to try them out and discover new authors. Or that was what I thought. In a couple of posts I will be... Continue Reading →
Today's mini challenge featured Book Spine Poetry. During the quarantine I already once had a stab at it (there are not nearly enough verbs in book titles) and I came up with this little poem called: Baking with Kafka (a real recommendation by the way - my favorite cartoonist Tom Gauld writes about science and... Continue Reading →
I felt like doing another read-a-thon this month and signed up for Bout of Books, which is a week-long event (17-23 August) that is more relaxed compared to Dewey's 24h read-a-thon. The idea however is similar, reading books together and having fun. As always I will mainly be interacting on Twitter (@Urlphantomhive) with maybe some... Continue Reading →
Or: That year my TBR took a serious turn for the worse. Recently I finished the last of the aforementioned 127 books, which were all part of Penguin's Little Black Classics. Small bites of Classics, to try them out and discover new authors. Or that was what I thought. In a couple of posts I... Continue Reading →
Yesterday evening around eleven PM, I was starting to fall asleep, so I called it a day for the read-a-thon. While the second half wasn't as prolific as the first, I still immensely enjoyed it and read from almost all the books I had intended to read. I normally don't plan these things, so I... Continue Reading →
A quick update from my side. Yes, I was perfectly asleep at the start of the readathon - thankfully. I woke up near the end of the fourth hour, and started reading Gideon the Ninth first. I still had about 4h left in the book, and finished it (how typical) in the Ninth hour of... Continue Reading →
This post will go live at 2 AM when the read-a-thon starts - so I really hope I will be sleeping at that time (rather than lying awake bathing in sweat - it is really hot today). However, I already wanted to post my selected TBR reads and plans for the read-a-thon, so that when... Continue Reading →
Even before I finished the challenge I started thinking: what will I do for the rest of the year? The most simple solution would be to just increase the number to 4 or maybe 5 books a week and keep on the same path. I wanted to do things a little differently, and I really... Continue Reading →
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