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A Year of Books 2019: …And the Rest!

Sometimes you read a book that doesn’t “fit in” with the rest of what you read. So, um, these are the books I read that didn’t “fit in” someplace else. Yeah. ***

The Library Adoption Agency

Today we bought 150 books. We’re not keeping any. A few years ago, a friend became a new teacher at a school that didn’t have any books in the classroom library. We adopted the classroom and ended up donating something like 300 books. From there, we adopted an entire school library, and then a specialContinue reading “The Library Adoption Agency”

Year of Books 2019: Books of Pulp, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

I read some older books. Now, I don’t think I read anything particularly ancient this year – nothing from the 1800’s or before – but I didn’t just read newer releases. I read some pulp! I also read some good ol’ fantasy and science fiction. Some of it was great! …some of it, less so…Continue reading “Year of Books 2019: Books of Pulp, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi”

A Year of Books 2019 — Ships of Sea and Sky

I like boats. Maybe it was the heavy-handed Star Trek novels I read when I was young that constantly talked about the love between a captain and his ship, but… give me a starship or a tall-masted man o’ war, and I’m hooked. And I read some of those books this year! In today’s list,Continue reading “A Year of Books 2019 — Ships of Sea and Sky”

Not a Writing Vacation

So I didn’t write a single word on vacation. I’d like a writing vacation, where the goal is to just… write. But for the last two weeks I have written nada. It was not a useless vacation in the least. I got to visit my wife’s great-grandfather on his hundredth birthday. I got to visitContinue reading “Not a Writing Vacation”