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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for November 27, 2024
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A Musical I Liked
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for November 20, 2024
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for November 13, 2024
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My Thoughts on the Mystery Genre
Top Ten Tuesday: Destination Titles
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
To echo last week’s ice and snow theme, this week I will be sharing ten books that are set in either the North Pole or the South Pole.
Sometimes Antarctica will appear instead, but I think that’s close enough to count.
If it’s going to be cold and snowy for the next four months for me, why not read about places that are even colder and snowier?
1.Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
2.The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen
3. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson by Matthew A. Henson
4.Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season’s Edge by Pete Dunne
5. Race to the South Pole by Roald Amudsen
6. The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
7. Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen
8. The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
9. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
10. Improbable Eden: The Dry Valleys of Antarctica by Bill Green
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for November 6, 2024
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Top Ten Tuesday: Covers with Snow and Ice on the Cover
Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
This is the time of year when my part of the world is in flux. The weather is generally chilly and windy, but we don’t always know what will be on the ground other than autumn leaves. Will everything be covered in a thin – or thick – layer of ice? Maybe it will be cold and rainy instead? Perhaps we will have a few flakes of snow gently falling from the sky but otherwise be fairly dry? Will we have a surprise blizzard?
You never know which one of these options might occur even if climate change is making the warmer days where you can go outside with a light winter jacket but not a scarf, gloves, or snow boots more likely and the blizzards less likely than they used to be.
Here are ten book covers filled with snow and ice.
1. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
3.Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
4. The Terror by Dan Simmons
5. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
6. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
7. Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
8. The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
9.Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
10. Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (Calvin and Hobbes, #7) by Bill Wattenson
(Oh, how I miss reading Calvin and Hobbes).
If you live in a cold place, stay warm!
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for October 30, 2024
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Top Ten Tuesday: Halloween Freebie
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This week’s theme is a Halloween Freebie, so I thought I’d go with one of my favorite scary (or not) topics: witches!
Some of my favorite witchy books I’ve read this past year or so:
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isbel Sterling – a fun mystery with lots of great characters.
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay – fantastic historical fiction set in New York in the late 1800’s.
The Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz – a great story about a family of witches. I really ought to finish this series eventually.
Dark Witch by Nora Roberts – my first Nora Roberts book! It was an intense story about magic and love set in Ireland.
The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox – one of the best books I read this year. A haunting and intense gothic romance/horror.
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong – one of my favorite series, her Women of the Otherworld books touch on all sorts of paranormal, but the witch, Paige, is my favorite.
Witch Please by Ann Aguirre – a fun and enjoyable witchy romance.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna – a super cute and heartwarming story about found family.
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling – I seem to be drawn in by witchy romances, as this is yet another. Second chance romances are a favorite of mine, plus the magic only made it better.
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison – another favorite series of mine. Rachel Morgan’s adventures in The Hollow are always fast paced and full of crazy.
What are your favorite Halloween themes?
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge for October 23, 2024
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