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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport The Creep of Technology Newport begins his book by addressing the vast amount of technological change that has essentially snuck up on us over the past 10 years. This introduction alone felt like a wake up call for me. No wonder we can struggle with balance when it comes to technology use. It’s so new and endless […]
Preamble What CW has put together for this readathon has absolutely blown me away. I’ve never seen anything like it. I couldn’t help but sign up! I especially love the focus on co-operative reading and community. I think participating in the Pondathon will be a great way to make new friends and immerse myself in the book blogging community. This sign-up post (a template provided by CW) explains what the […]
Preamble Horror seems a bold word to use in titling this post, but I think it gets the point across. I use the term loosely to include speculative fiction with elements that could lend themselves to horror – ghosts, gore, eeriness, creepiness – regardless of whether those stories are specially horror stories. Each book on this list had the potential to be horror, based on its general description. I based […]
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Malamander by Thomas Taylor Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy – especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma’s parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover that their disappearance might have something […]
Preamble I know I’m a bit late for this type of post… My blogging schedule was already full up when I got the idea to write this type of post. I started using Goodreads in 2011 – hard to believe it’s been so long! That made it easy for me to look back on the roughly 550 books I read that were published in the past decade. I originally planned […]