Week of 28 May 2023
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Word of the Week #2
Word of the Week is a bookish meme hosted by The Plain-Spoken Pen on Mondays in which participants share a word that they find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say! Share your own word on your blog, then help us grow the meme and come share it with us! I teach English… Continue reading
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Protected: Sunday Summary #41
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The Peter Ackroyd Collection
About the Author Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He… Continue reading
Albion, Alfred Hitchcock, British history, British Isles, Charlie Chaplin, Dark Ages, ebooks, Edgar Allan Poe, epub, fiction, Frankenstein, Geoffrey Chaucer, history, History of England series, London, Mary Shelley, non-fiction, Peter Ackroyd, Sir Thomas Malory, Thames River, The Canterbury Tales, The Death of King Arthur, Trojan War, unread books, Venice, William Shakespeare -
Friday Book Memes #2: Beyond Mammoth Cave
Book Beginnings on Fridays, hosted by Rose City Reader, is where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires. I am currently reading two books — an anthology of science fiction short stories, the beginning… Continue reading
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WWW Wednesdays #2
WWW Wednesdays is a bookish meme that was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by “fledgling writer” Sam A. Stevens on Taking on a World of Words. To participate, you just answer the Three W’s: Currently Reading: Goodreads description: In Beyond Mammoth A Tale of Obsession in the World’s Longest Cave, James D. Borden… Continue reading
Anne Hillerman, anthologies, book blogs, books recently finished, cave exploration, Cave of Bones, Chris West, currently reading, Every Stamp Tells A Story, Leaphorn Chee & Manuelito series, Mammoth Cave, memes, National Philatelic Collection, Neil Clarke, postage stamps, reading, science fiction, Song of the Lion, TBR, The Final Frontier, Tony Hillerman -
First Chapter, First Paragraph: Tuesday Intros #2
First Chapter, First Paragraph: Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Socrates Book Reviews where participants share the first paragraph of one of the books that they are currently reading, have read or are planning to read. According to Socrates, this meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR 🙂 This week I’m participating with… Continue reading
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5 On My TBR #1: Space
As many of this blog’s readers may not be obsessive bookish types, I should take a moment and explain what a “TBR” is. TBR = To Be Read Usually these are books that you own already but have not yet read. Those might be books on the shelf (physical or virtual as in eBooks) or… Continue reading
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Word of the Week #1
My meme streak continues with yet another first-time participation. Word of the Week is a bookish meme hosted by The Plain-Spoken Pen on Mondays in which participants share a word that they find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say! Share your own word on your blog, then help us grow the meme… Continue reading
Mark Joseph Jochim 