Good Morning!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far and getting lots of reading done. My chosen quote this week is by the great Oscar Wilde. He is a favourite of mine so I thought it was high time I chose one of his wonderful quotes.
Oscar Wilde
Happy reading everyone.
Lady Book Dragon
Chinese Proverb
(Origin Unknown)
Happy Wednesday Everyone!
I hope eveyone is having a good week and managing to fit in lots of reading.
I love this quote and I plan on trying to live by this as much as I can in the future.
Interview, NBC TV 1961
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.”
Karl Marx
This quote is something I agree with as everyday you see in the news instances of people not learning from history and making the same old mistakes.
Anyway that is my thought of the day, I hope you are all having a good day.
Lady Book Dragon
I have been back to full swing teaching this week, so I thought I needed a suitable quote. I hope I am teaching my students the beauty of music.
Plato
Firstly apologoies for missing the Mid Week Quote last week, with Christmas and New Year I forgot what the days of the week were.
I hope everybody is having a good week so far.
Lady Book Dragon
Well it is the last day of 2018! So what bookish things have I done in a year?
I set up this blog and have now been blogging for just over two months and I love it! I’m reading more books and blogs and discovering so many new books I would never have dreamed of reading before. Plus I’m talking about books on a daily basis, what is not to like?
I have read more books in a year than I have ever read before, 74 in total and I have enjoyed it immensely.
I have smashed my Goodreads reading challenge, my aim was only 60! Still undecided what 2019’s should be.
I have discovered some new authors I have never read before but definitely want to read more of:-
Neil Gaiman
Rosamunde Pilcher
Veronica Henry
Jeffrey Archer
Peter May
Mary Higgins Clark
My favourite books that I read in 2018:-
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Watermelon Snow by William A Liggett
The Blackhouse by Peter May
My worst books of 2018:-
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Newly discovered genres:-
Climate fiction
Favourite Poem:-
The Tyger by William Blake
Favourite Quote:-
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino
I believe that is a wrap.
I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year’s Eve whether it is partying, reading, sleeping or whatever you prefer.
See you in 2019.
Lady Book Dragon.
