Blog-oversary: 17 years

Today the blog turns 17.

Where does the time go?

The anniversary for 17 years is furniture. 

                     So maybe it's time to clean up my bookcases and give you a tour of them. 

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After

YA Books

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After

Fantasy/Sci-fi Books

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After

Close-up:

Romance shelf: regency and modern

Cozy mysteries

Jane Austen

Mostly Louisa May Alcott

Meg Cabot

Middle Grade

Close Up:

Fantasy books

It was nice to go through these books. I donated several books to my library.

I like how organized they all are; I'm happy I did this project.

It was also really nice to go through the books. Several of them are signed and seeing them brought me down memory lane. I have been so fortunate to meet so many amazing authors. There are a few books where my blurbs have been used, or I'm in the acknowledgements. 

I can't wait to see what the future holds book-wise and blog-wise! 

Christmas Songs Book Tag

 

A meme from That Artsy Reader Girl

I'm also limiting my choices to books read in 2023 and it was HARD

1. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: Favorite bookish couple.

2. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”: Name a book where a character is away from home (school, vacation, etc.). 

 

3. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”: Name your favorite “little” book (children’s book, short story, novella, etc.).

4. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town“: What book(s) do you hope Santa brings you this year?

5. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”: Which book turned your nose red (made you cry)?

6. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: Your favorite book/kind of book to read during the holidays. Christmas romances!

 

7. “We Three Kings”: Your favorite trilogy/book from a trilogy (or feel free to fudge it and pick a book from a series).

8. “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”: A character you would love to be snowed in with.

9. “White Christmas”: An upcoming release you’re dreaming about.

Top Ten Tuesday: The last 10

I'm changing this week's topic to the last 10 picture books I've read and loved.

Have you read any of these picture books?

Have you read a picture book recently that you loved?

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'd like to Share

This week, I'm changing the topic to make it personal. This is the anniversary of my Grandfather's death and the day still hits me hard. I wrote up a post about him here, if you'd like to read it. He was a reader, although he read mostly sports books and biographies.

I didn't talk to him too much about books, but I would have liked to. 

Here are a few I'd like to share with him and talk about together.

I'd like to know what he thought about a female quarterback

I read this in college and thought it was SO much better than the movie. I wonder if he would have thought the same.

Would he like fantasy?

He was a big baseball fan. Had he heard of Lizzy Murphy? What did he think of females playing baseball?

I'd ask him about his experience in WWII and if he saw women pilots. 

Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors

This week's topic is 2018 authors that I loved who were new to me. I had some fun romance recommended to me via Twitter. And I'm really looking forward to reading more books by these authors.

Top Ten Tuesday: Halloween Books

This week's topic is Halloween Related. So here are some fun books I've read this year that are perfect for Halloween, from all ages. Mysteries, thrillers, and monsters.

- meme from The Broke and the Bookish 

Teen Books:

Bad Blood: serial killers, death, profiling, friendship

Mediator series: deadly ghosts, mysteries, a one very cute ghost

Zero Day: A mysterious reappearance, terrorism, hackers, a potential cult

Children's and Middle Grade Books:

Great Shelby Holmes: Fun mystery

The Library: Mystery, danger, death, and creepy monsters

Will Wilder: Prophecy, creepy monsters, and lots of danger 

Paris Pan Takes the Dare: Dares, murder, creepy dolls in the woods

Picture Books:

10 Busy Brooms: A counting book

Monstore: Buying a monster is so much fun!

Little Shop Of Monsters: Choose your monster wisely