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Favorite Rainy Day Reads
24 Festive Tasks: Door 5 – Bon Om Touk, Bonus Task: List / tell us about your favorite rainy day reads. I suppose it only takes one look at my list of read books this year to determine my favorite rainy day books, as 2020 was essentially one extended rainy day: Golden Age mysteries and […]
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Book Characters Turning Over a New Leaf
24 Festive Tasks: Door 4 – Japanese Culture Day, Task 2: Japanese Culture Day was first held in 1948, to commemorate the announcement of the country’s post-war constitution on November 3, 1946, which was to make a new start for Japan. Which book did you read this year where someone was searching for or starting […]
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The Medieval Murderers: The Lost Prophecies
This was a reread, which this time around I liked quite a bit better than when I first read it a few years ago. The Medieval Murderers series of round robins are the perfect books for the “Relics and Curiosities” Halloween Bingo category, as their very concept consists in following one (supposedly cursed or unlucky) […]
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Halloween Bingo 2020: The Rest of the Game and Wrap-Up
Sooo, that’s another bingo game behind us already! Many thanks to our game hosts for successfully moving the game from BookLikes to a new venue and organizing one heck of a game despite that venue’s built-in limitations. I had a great time and would only have wished I could have participated more throughout the game […]
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Hilary Mantel: The Mirror and the Light – Reading Progress Update: 4%
I’ve barely scratched the surface (we’re just past Jane Seymour’s rather startling wedding night), and I’m already settling back into the story as if it hadn’t been years since I read the second book of the trilogy. I just love being back in Cromwell’s world, and still as much in awe of him (and Mantel’s […]
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My Rainy Day Reads
24 Festive Tasks: Door 5 – Bon Om Touk, Task 1: List / tell us about your favorite rainy day reads. Any- and everything that — with or without a mug of hot tea and some chocolate or other snacks — makes me feel all warm and comfortable (while still engaging my brain cells, […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/01 (Day 1): Mystery or Horror?
Mystery, definitely. For one thing, I’m a total chicken — I can’t look at blood (not even, or rather, especially not my own, e.g. in medical procedures); and anything shocking, spooky, or otherwise unnaturally unsettling just has me running for the rafters. That’s particularly true at night — which is when I’m doing a […]
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More Favorite / Essential Historical Fiction: Towards the 200!
OK, so I did get to another full list after all. Here goes, without any further ado: Virginia Woolf: Orlando I’m happy I’m getting another shot for this book alone — could have kicked myself for leaving it off my first list. I’m not a big fan of either time travel or main character sex […]
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My Historical Fiction Essentials
Finally getting around to this — as per Chris’s invitation, here’s my list (in no particular order, and with major reliance on Chris’s dictum that it’s “fine to list a whole author’s work or series and have it count as one entry”): Hillary Mantel’s historical fiction I’ve yet to try her contemporary writing, but both […]
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Calling all historical fiction readers
Reblogged from Chris’ Fish Place Moonlight Reader has unleashed something.(and we forgot Sharon Kay Penman) And with her permission, I am asking for your best historical fiction lists. Post your top 25 and we’ll see how much we have, and then go from there. First call is good from today until the 8th. So that’s a […]
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Link to the downloadable Crowdsourced! list
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Themis-Athena has been working extremely hard on the google sheet, which now has 665 books on it. I believe that it is up to date except for Elentarri’s list posted today. You can view the google document here. I am also hard at work on the BL list, […]
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Crowdsourced: State of the List — WE DID IT!!!
Reblogged from Themis-Athena’s Garden of Books UPDATE 2 We did it!!! Here’s the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qYl32e0L3R3X_82XldWaCOt2naBFtvoJsaQY8zzUU3E/edit#gid=0 Thanks to the final submissions by Jennifer, Ani and Lora, we’re up to 1001 exactly! How cool is that?? _______________________________________________ UPDATE 1 Including all submissions up to right now, we have room for another 27 books. Romance and horror […]
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Crowdsourced: State of the List — CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON SUBMISSIONS
Guys, we totally rock — once I’ll have added today’s most recent submissions, we’ll be in spitting distance of our 1001 goal! So I’m going to ask for a moratorium on submissions, with two exceptions: 1) We need more romance novels (and also a bit more horror) — the list is currently lopsided in favor […]
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BL-opoly: Dice Roll #12, Parts a and b
Today is a roll day for me: It started with doubles that sent me to another square I’ve visited before (and for a moment had me fearing I’m stuck in a loop, too): I move to square 26: How? — Read a book that is science fiction or a book with the word “how” in […]
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Crowdsourced Book List: Just Saying
I’ve just updated the Google spreadsheet, and we haven’t just cracked the 500 book threshold, we’ve cracked 600 … and we’re on a good way to get to 700. Do we rock, or what??? Triple hooray for Moonlight Reader’s brainwave and for everyone who responded! And it’s not too late yet in case anybody else […]
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Crowdsourced: More Books with a Difference – Fiction
You asked, Moonlight Reader? To quote from one of my additional entries below: “As you wish …” Without any further ado: Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies When Lillelara added A Place of Greater Safety to her list, I could have kicked myself — because Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell books were definitely among […]
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Listen up – again!
Reblogged from Moonlight Reader I am still working on getting everyone’s contributions added to the Crowdsourced! list. Do me a favor, and scroll aaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way down to the bottom of the list and check the comments. Make sure that there is a link to your list pasted into one of the comments. This is […]
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Responding to Moonlight Reader’s “call for papers (= titles / authors)” — there are quite a number of excellent lists out there already; anyway, here’s my contribution … or a first draft, at least. Links go to my reviews (or status updates / summary blog posts / author pages) to the extent I’ve posted any. […]
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This is a call for your essential titles/authors?
Reblogged from Moonlight Reader This is a call – over the next week or so, spend some time putting together a short list of your personal essential titles that are maybe a little bit out of the mainstream. Say, your top 25 or so that you think are representative or transformative of their era or […]
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For Linda: Richard III / Leicester
“The” parking lot Commemorative / explanatory plaque on a wall near the parking lot gates (right-click on the top image and select “display” for a larger view) The parking lot is down a narrow alley from Leicester Cathedral The Tomb in Leicester Cathedral (Usually surrounded by people — luckily I was travelling alone, because I […]
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