A brief overview of recent reads.
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The Book Journal March/April 2025
My dear fellow readers, happy belated independent bookstore day! I hope everyone went out and celebrated the book to the best of their ability. Even if you’re on a budget, I hope you at least dropped in and soaked up the magic of the bookstore.
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The Book Journal February 2025
February was cold and gray and overall drab so I had plenty of early nights tucked up with a book. I see some sunshine in my future, but here are the books that have kept me busy for the past few weeks:
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The Book Journal January 2025
I hope everyone has been giving themselves time during these difficult, overwhelming, long winter evenings with a good book. I have definitely been spending time with plenty of great books. Here are my highlights from the start of the year:
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My year so far…
Dear Readers, As you may have noticed, I have not written to you all for most of the year. Unfortunately, at the start of this year I was faced with a major operation which upended pretty much all of my plans including writing this blog. Fortunately, I have come through the other side and spent…
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The Book Journal January 2024
January is over and I’m relieved. Most of my family ended up with a nasty bug so in between naps, television, and doses of cold medicine, I read what I could
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The Book Journal November 2023
My November reads included witches, vampires, and ghosts but they also included plenty of very real horrors from history and the specters that haunt our society today. The bookshelf offered plenty of remarkable characters and stories, but I was glad for the chocolate from the leftover candy bowl to go with it.
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The Book Journal October 2023
This month involved a trip to London curated by a local museum that I have been looking forward to for almost a year. I was able to look at some amazing, beautiful, very old books. However, my actual reading was minimal.
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The Book Journal September 2023
When I sat down to look at my reading options at the start of the month I was almost dizzied by the possibilities! After tackling my summer reading project I’d almost forgotten how many other options I had (and of course how many new books were at the library). I have also now signed up…
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My Summer Book Report
To me, these were all the core of what used to make summer reader projects so enjoyable – they were chosen by someone else, often a bit more challenging than what I usually pick on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, or books I’ve heard of but not picked up.
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The Book Journal May 2023
You ever have a month that truly gets away from you? The last few weeks have been a combination of amazing once-in-a-lifetime travel and stressful work responsibilities with very little book reading time in between. In the end I read plenty of guidebooks and magazines while sitting in airports alongside two novels, one audiobook, and…
lost in the dust jackets 