It’s time for an all-new edition of the Book Bingo reading challenge! This reader favorite is back for a sixth consecutive year, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of your reading journey once again!
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As readers, we are constantly looking for the best way to track our books — be it keeping track of books that we want to read, books that we have read, or books that we own. There are a plethora of reading tracker apps, websites and tools that can help us track our books and reading, with new ones seemingly popping up on the regular. While it can be tempting to try all the new, shiny apps out there, especially when we see Bookstagram influencers waxing poetic on every shiny new app, for our own sanity, it’s helpful to try a few apps and tools and stick to them.
Here’s a handy list of some of the best tools and apps to track your reading goals and habits.
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November’s been a month filled with the love and warmth of family, the excitement and joy of traveling, and a few stolen moments of quiet squeezed in between all the comings and goings. Through it all, I’ve had my Kindle tucked into my bag, firing it up during train and car rides, sneaking in a few pages with my morning coffee or before I turned in at night.
Despite all the excitement, I did manage to finish four books this month!
Continue reading“She returned with the boy ten days before the rains. The boy was hardly to blame but still, first came the stranger and then came the rains.”
Thus starts Lorraine Wilson’s We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, a post-apocalyptic novel set in a small village somewhere in Eastern Europe, in an unspecified amount of time after the Crash, when the internet escaped its bounds in a paroxysm of entropy.
The world is now inhabited by digital ghosts. Fragments of the internet that roam the world, playing their stories in a loop. If you aren’t careful, they can infect you, though like any virus, some ghosts are more infectious than others. Weak ones are harmless, or ones with little emotion in them. Data, maps, news reports, shopping websites, things like that. The occasional story ghost can be a problem if you happen to know the story. But the ones connected to destructive emotions are the riskiest, if your state of mind resonates with them well enough, they can… upload themselves into you.
Continue readingSpooky season is here, and my reading preferences have taken on a decidedly cozy mien. I have a few thrillers that I have to review, but I just can’t bring myself to read them. All I want to read is something cozy — be it a cozy mystery or a cozy romance, or, better yet, a cozy fantasy.
There are seasons to our reading, I think. I know there are times when all I want is to sink my teeth into something “serious” or to immerse myself in some Jungian psychology or books on art and creativity. There are seasons when I want to read all the YA/fantasy, and others when all I want is to immerse myself in some good historical fiction.
Continue readingSeptember was a somewhat mixed reading month. I read a total of 7 books, finally breaking that ceiling of 4 books a month that I’ve been hitting since May, but some of them were just about average, which was a pity. The handful of interesting books more than made up for the disappointment of the damp squibs, though, which is always a silver lining when it comes to books and reading.
Without further ado, let’s jump into this month’s reading wrap-up!
Continue readingI spent most of August back home visiting my parents. My sister was home too, with her two children aged 4 years and 4 months, so it was a time for family and baby cuddles, and painting with the niece. But through it all, I did manage to read quite a bit too — from published diaries, to dystopia, a short story collection and general fiction. Here’s my reading wrap up for August 2024.
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I seem to be on a somewhat slower reading trend this year. Once again, I read just 4 books this month, 2 of which corresponded to Book Bingo prompts. But most of them were very interesting. This month’s book selections took me across the US and France in the 1990s, on a road trip in small-town America, to the Scottish Highlands in the 1300s, and the moors in Victorian England. Here’s my reading wrap up for July 2024!
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High-intensity heists, a race against sinister enemies, the perils of fundamental religious views, and some thought-provoking psychology — it’s been quite an interesting month of books! It’s also been a slower reading month, but at a book a week, it isn’t all that bad! Here’s my reading wrap-up for June 2024.
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The mercury in New Delhi is soaring. Temperatures are reaching unheard of highs of 47 degrees centigrade. Just yesterday, the thermometer in the husband’s car read 49 degrees. We’ve had more heatwave warnings than I can remember in any previous summer.
While it’s torturous to be outdoors, reading is, thankfully, an indoor activity. I’ve spent hours curled up in my cozy reading nook, the air conditioning on at full blast, reading. From the scorching summer fires in the coast of Brittany to riding atop La Bestia in Mexico to wandering a post-apocalyptic world with a traveling symphony, the five books I read in May took me on some merry and not-so-merry journeys.
Without further ado, let’s jump into this month’s reading wrap-up!
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