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2026 Audiobook Challenge

The 2026 Audiobook Challenge is being hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About. Audiobooks are something I have only recently picked up, but eager to give it a try. I found them exceedingly useful last year for making daily chores more enjoyable. I will probably manage a maximum of 1-5 books under “Newbie (I’ll give it a try)” status, although I am secretly aiming for…

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The New Magdalen for Classics Club Challenge

I signed up for the Classics Club challenge last year, and I am slowly — very, very slowly — trying to finish off the items on my list. Thanks to CC Spin #41, the new “lucky” number is 11, and so I am off to read: The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins (1873) After much hunting around, here’s a blurb at Storytel that actually seemed interesting: “You don’t have to put on the red light“, as Sting…

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Bookish Goals for Year ‘25

Ten Bookish Goals? Hmm, that’s a lot. I cannot think of a list of 10 bookish goals for Year ’25, for this week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt. At most, here are 6 goals and I’d be very surprised if I can manage 2 or more of these: 1) Read at least 12 books, one for each month. The challenge, of course, remains in shortlisting 12 out of the TBR Pile… 2) Read more diversely across genres. That means,…

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2024 Reads: Ranked

Dear reader, I love a chart. I love to see a visualization of a list, organized and color coded and easily consumed in one bite like a slice of tiered cake. So this year, I’ve organized my reading reflection with a tier list. Over the next few weeks, I’ll do category breakdowns with some explanation of why each book landed where it did on the list( and if I finish more books than are present on…

2024 Reads: Ranked

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Ten Changes in Reading Habits

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday has an interesting theme – how our reading habits have changed over time. This actually proved to be a fun walk down memory lane. Let me count the ways, then! Continue reading Ten Changes in Reading Habits

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Classics Club Challenge: CC Spin #38

Several months ago, I had decided to participate in the Classics Club Challenge and signed up with a bucket list of 100 classic literature books that I wanted to read. Occasionally, a random number is also generated by by the hosts at The Classics Club, and you can play along by reading that entry number from your chosen list. Rules are here. This is my first CC Spin, and the Lucky Spin Number…

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Spring '24 TBR

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday has us looking at our Spring ’24 TBR. I don’t know about you, but I’d be lucky to finish these off for the whole year! Still – subject to change and all that – here’s my set: Folks, how have you been? Anybody else feeling the reading blues lately? Or, er, since last year? What are your solutions — and of course, your own Spring ’24 TBR lists?

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SciFiMonth November 2023

Art credit: Yosua Bungaran Cahya Putra The SciFiMonth Challenge for 2023 is being hosted by A Dance With Books, BookForager, Dear Geek Place and There’s Always Room For One More. I’ve read only a handful of science fiction books till date, so I was very wary of signing up. But oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Here’s a list of scifi books languishing on my TBR pile since… forever… but…

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