Hello!
Happy Wednesday! My chosen quote this week is by the American author Stephen King.
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
Stephen King
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Mid Week Quote: Stephen King
Author: higgy88
Crazy dog owning musician who loves knitting, reading and exercising in her spare time.
WWW Wednesday: 12/01/2022
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I am back to work fully now but I am making sure I make plenty of time for reading.
What I am Currently Reading
I have almost finished this and I must admit I can’t wait to read the next book. I had forgotten what a great book this is.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
This wasn’t really a Christmas book as it was stories from the different seasons and only a couple of the stories were about Christmas. This was my first book by Laurie Lee but will definitely not be my last.
What I Think I will Read Next
I can’t wait to start reading some of the books off my list for The Classics Club but I also have The Witcher series to start as well.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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The Classics Club
Hello!
So for quite a while now I thought about joining The Classics Club and this year I have decided to join up. I have chosen 50 books all published before 1900 and plan to complete the list in five years, so my deadline is 11th January 2027. I used to read a lot of classics so it will be good to get reading them again and tick off quite a few books on my TBR pile.
The list has mostly new reads for me but there are a few favourites on the list and ones that I can’t quite remember all the storyline of and would like to read again.
All books that I read and review will be linked back to this list.
In no particular order, here is the list…
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Goodreads Monday
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas– Goodreads MondayDombey and Son by Charles Dickens– Goodreads Monday- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Goodreads Monday
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot – Goodreads Monday
Silas Marner by George Eliot– Goodreads Monday- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell – Goodreads Monday
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding – Goodreads Monday
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson – Goodreads Monday
Villette by Charlotte Brontë– Goodreads Monday- The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas – Goodreads Monday
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë – Goodreads Monday
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy – Goodreads Monday
- The Red Sphinx by Alexandre Dumas – Goodreads Monday
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
- Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
- Louise de La Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
Lady Susan and other works by Jane Austen– Goodreads Monday- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – Goodreads Monday
Evelina by Frances Burney– Goodreads Monday- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins – Goodreads Monday
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott – Goodreads Monday
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – Goodreads Monday
- Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood – Goodreads Monday
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift – Goodreads Monday
- Candide by Voltaire – Goodreads Monday
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot– Goodreads MondayThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne– Goodreads Monday- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore – Goodreads Monday
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope – Goodreads Monday
The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins– Goodreads Monday- The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart – Goodreads Monday
- Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Middlemarch by George Eliot – Goodreads Monday
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Goodreads Monday
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville – Goodreads Monday
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens – Goodreads Monday
- Cecilia by Frances Burney – Goodreads Monday
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan– Goodreads MondayMoll Flanders by Daniel Defoe– Goodreads Monday- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome – Goodreads Monday
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith – Goodreads Monday
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne – Goodreads Monday
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte- Persuasion by Jane Austen
Wish me luck!
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Reading My Height in Books #12
Hello!
It is time for my final update of my 2021 challenge. I had to change location of the book stack because I could no longer keep it upright without it leaning on against a wall.
Sadly, I failed the challenge. The final stack came to 64 inches and it needed to be 67 inches. I was so close but I just came short.
Here is the year in full.
Maybe, I will try the challenge again another year.
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The Weekly Brief
Hello!
It is time for the first Weekly Brief of the year.
Not much has happened on the blog so far this year because I have taken a bit of a rest from blogging.
Posts this Week
Currently Reading
I ordered Village Christmas by Laurie Lee in November and it turned up a couple of days ago but being as it isn’t all about Christmas I decided to read it and so far I am loving it and finding it very funny.
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December 2021 Wrap Up
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I am playing catch up on the blog at the moment, as over Christmas and New Year I took a little bit of break. So here is my last wrap up from 2021.
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Goodreads Challenge: 71/70
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Friday Poetry: A. A. Milne
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I hope everyone is coping well with the first week back at work after New Year. I have come down with a nasty cold so I must admit I have been resting and reading to hopefully get over it quickly.
My chosen poem today is by A. A. Milne.
Explained Elizabeth Ann Said to her Nan: 'Please will you tell me how God began? Somebody must have made Him. So Who could it be, cos I want to know?' And Nurse said, 'Well!' And Ann said, 'Well? I know you know, and I wish you'd tell.' And Nurse took pins from her mouth, and said, 'Now then, darling, it's time for bed.' Elizabeth Ann Had a wonderful plan: She would run round the world till she found a man Who knew exactly how God began. She got up early, she dressed, and ran Trying to find an Important Man. She ran to London and knocked at the door Of the Lord High Doodelum's coach-and-four. 'Please, sir (if there's anyone in), However-and-ever did God begin?' The Lord High Doodelum lay in bed But out of the window, large and red, Came the Lord High Coachman's face instead. And the Lord High Coachman laughed and said: 'Well, what put that in your quaint little head?' Elizabeth Ann went home again And took from the ottoman Jennifer Jane. 'Jenniferjane,' said Elizabeth Ann, 'Tell me at once how God began.' And Jane, who didn't much care for speaking, Replied in her usual way by squeaking. What did it mean? Well, to be quite candid, I don't know, but Elizabeth Ann did. Elizabeth Ann said softly, 'Oh! Thank you Jennifer. Now I know.' A. A. Milne
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My 2021 in Books
Hello and happy New Year!
Apologies for being a bit quiet recently, I must admit I have been enjoying a break from everything over the festive period but now I am back to normal and looking forward to a good year of reading and blogging.
So here is my year in books!
I am pleased I made my Goodreads Challenge again this year.
Here are all the books I read
I think I read a few different genres in 2021 and I did try to leave my comfort zone at times as well. One thing I did learn was that I really miss reading classics so I think 2022 will involve me reading a few more classics.
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WWW Wednesday: 29/12/2021
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I remembered what day it is! The days between Christmas and New Year are always a little hazy to work out but today I realised it was Wednesday so I thought I would do a WWW Wednesday.
What I am Currently Reading
I just started this last night and I am really enjoying the illustrations. I do love reading Harry Potter books so this is a nice book to finish the year with.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I haven’t done much reading over the Christmas period so this is the only book I have finished.
What I Think I will Read Next
I have so many books that I want to read in 2022 and I have a lot of book series I want to start and finish. My biggest problem is trying to work out what to read and when.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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Goodreads Monday: 27/12/2021
Goodreads Monday is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and got some nice new books as presents. My chosen book today has been on my TBR for ages but until yesterday I did not own it. Now I own the whole series because I had the set for Christmas.
For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other – and themselves: Dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans… Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting.
Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a stranger destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world – for good, or for evil… Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, has taken Ciri to the relative safety of the Witchers’ Settlement, but it soon becomes clear that Ciri isn’t like the other witchers. As the political situation grows ever dimmer and the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land, Geralt searches for someone to train Ciri’s unique powers.
But someone else has an eye on the young girl, someone who understand exactly what the prophecy means – and exactly what Ciri’s power can do. This time Geralt may have met his match.
I can’t wait to start the series and it will most likely be one that I start in the new year.
Please drop me a comment if you have taken part in Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
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