Wordless Wednesday, January 24
I'm reading Susanna Kearsley's The Firebird , and the decks featured are, from the left, Shamanic Healing Oracle and Ostara Tarot. Cold, wet Wednesday. Send cocoa.
Posts
24 in 48 Readathon, January 2018
I have a half dozen posts started and lingering unfinished -- including my top ten reads of 2017 post -- but work and home life (including a string of minor-but-expensive home dramas) has been enough to keep me from having enough brain cells to finish a post. The 24 in 48 Readathon is this last weekend in January and I'm so looking forward to it. You only (ha, "only") have to read for 24 hours within a 48-hour period, and I'm hoping to scrape out that time, even if it means staying up all night in the living room. I'm so behind on my 2018 reading (basically just dragging my feet through Things Fall Apart ) and I'm looking forward to being able to spread out some books around me and start 'em all until something sticks. In the readathon queue are: Toni Morrison's Beloved , Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists , and Middlemarch . I actually have about ten thousand books jostling for my attention and for once, I'm actually overwhelmed by my
Weekend reads and wow, 2018...
We've survived the "bomb cyclone" here in Boston, but now have ten thousand pounds of snow to shovel in negative temps. Hooray! This weekend is the Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, an annual tradition for our family. So we can safely assume my read for the weekend will be Moby Dick , although I am working on a few reads, trying to find something to sink into: Middlemarch (still!), Emergent Strategy , and The Desire Map . What are you reading this weekend? For those of you impacted by snow and cold -- hope you're okay!
My first book for 2018
Sheila of Book Journey invited a bunch of bloggers to share what they planned to read as their first book for 2018 -- and she made a collage of their reads . I'll be reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- the January pick for my book club -- and I'm looking forward to it (as much as one can for a book that seems to be heavy on misery). What's your first read of 2018 going to be?