Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

Kurshan has a compelling writing style in which her passion for books and reading shines through clearly. She also showcases her passion for her Jewish faith as she uses the Torah (the first five books of the Christian Bible) to structure her memoir. While I would have preferred less didactic portions, I understand why she…

I always love falling back into a world of Tolkein’s invention. These worlds seem to exist fully formed in Tolkein’s mind, so fully formed that he can write essays about the history of these fictional places. The version I read included the original fairytale, an essay that Tolkein wrote about this fairytale, the last work…

I finally got caught up on my reviews…at the very end of the year. I have quite a few to get through so several of these reviews are on the shorter end. I have plans to improve the timeliness of my reviews next year.We shall see. This is one of those cases where the author…

I had no intention of surpassing last year’s high water mark of books read but…um…I read more books this year than multiple past years of reading. I have no explanation. Like last year, I will use the sweet graphics Storygraph generates rather than come up with my own. (Obviously, “middle grade,” “graphic novel,” and “young…

Yup. Still keeping this up.

The Fully Booked Reading Journal from little inklings design has several different reading challenges. I tackled them last year but did not post them here. This year I made graphics. Plus, there’s a few so each gets its own post.