W3:
Title: The Book of Cat Poems
Author: Ana Sampson
Pages: 126
Published: 2021
Started : 1/14/24
Finished: 1/16/24
Summary: A compilation of poems based on cats. Rilke, Tolkien,Yeats with beautiful watercolor illustrations to accompany it.
My thoughts: If you’re a cat lover, you’d love this book. The illustrations are beautiful and the poems are different and eclectic.
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W2:
Title: Improbable Libraries
Author: Alex Johnson
Pages: 232
Published: 2015
Started: 1/9/24
Finished: 1/11/24
Summary: A book about unusual libraries around the world including those using animals, unusual transportation, personal libraries etc…
My thoughts: I liked it. I never knew so many different types of libraries existed and it was heartening to see the lengths people will go to read.
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Week 1:
Title: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Author: E.L Konigsberg
Pages: 162
Published: 1967
Started: 1/1/24
Finished: 1/6/24
Summary: Claudia Kincaid decides to runaway with her brother after feeling ignored to teach her parents a lesson. She runs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. There, they have adventures and find themselves taking part in a mystery.
My thoughts: This was my favorite book as a child and first time I’ve read it in 30 years. And it’s still as wonderful as it was when I read it as a child. Writing is lyrical, the characters are multifaceted which is incredible for characters who are children. The writer makes the kids relatable and the brother-sister relationship genuine. The kids sound and act like kids without being annoying. I love this book.
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Books I Read for the Alphabet Challenge this year
Letters:
A: A Place in the World by Frances Mayes
B: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
C: The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson
D: Devolution of the Nude by Lynne McMahon
E: Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
F: Fly Girl by Ann Hood
G: Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
H: Hooked by Sutton Foster
I: The Impossible Country by Brian Hall
J: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
K: Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
L: Laughing Stock by Bennett Cerf
M: Main Street and Other Poems by Alfred Joyce Kilmar
N: North to Ithaka by Eleni Gage
O: Old Possum Book of Practical Cats by T.S Eliot
P: Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
Q: Queen of the Turtle Derby by Julia Reed
R: Rain by Melissa Harrison
S: Surf Life by Gill Hutchison
T: Tango, Two-Step and LA Night by Eve Babitz
U: Upstream by Mary Oliver
V: Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
W: Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin
X: Xingu by Edith Wharton
Y: Yoga for People who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
Z: Zaire by Voltaire
Books I read for this challenge
List of them, no reviews
1. Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett (Spain)
2. North to Ithaka by Eleni. N Gage (Greece)
3. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Italy)
4. The Impossible Country by Brian Hall ( Croatia)
5. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (Scotland)
6. Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (France)
7. The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz ( Hungary)
8. The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg ( England)
Host site : https://www.rosecityreader.com/2022/12/2023-european-reading-challenge-wrap-up.html
Finished the 2023 Creativity Challenge
Books I read:
1. Tango, Two Step and the LA Night by Eve Babitz
2. Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
3. Winter Season by Toni Bentley
4. The Choreography of Everyday Life by Alice-B Pearson
5. Hooked by Sutton Foster
6. Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett
7. Dancers Among Us by Jordan Matter
8. Homebody by Joanna Gaines
9. The Creative Life by Julia Cameron
10. Photo Op by David Hume Kennerly
Host site : https://jannghi.blogspot.com/2022/10/creativity-reading-challenge-2023.html
