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  • Word of the Week #1

    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… Read more

  • Sunday Summary #40

    Sunday Summary #40

    Welcome to Sunday Summary, the meme in which I attempt to summarize the week that came before. This is installment #40, covering the week starting 21 May and ending today, 28 May 2023. Only twelve more weeks and I will have been doing these summaries for an entire year without missing a single week. Tomorrow… Read more

  • A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott

    A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott

    From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, The Surprising Diversity of a Tradition Title: A History of Marriage: From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, The Surprising Diversity of a Tradition Author(s): Elizabeth Abbott Publisher: Penguin Canada Published: December 29, 2009 Format: epub Date Added: May 25, 2023 calibre… Read more

  • Friday Book Memes #1: Song of the Lion

    Friday Book Memes #1: Song of the Lion

    Here are two more memes that I am participating in for the very first time. Most bloggers combine these into one post so I am following along in that fashion. As mentioned in my WWW Wednesdays post a couple of days ago, I am currently reading Anne Hillerman’s Song Of The Lion (and got to… Read more

  • WWW Wednesdays #1

    WWW Wednesdays #1

    This is another bookish meme that I have never participated in before now. It 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: Normally, this would be pretty easy for me as I have been… Read more

  • First Chapter, First Paragraph: Tuesday Intros #1

    First Chapter, First Paragraph: Tuesday Intros #1

    In the earliest days of this blog, even before I moved to Southeast Asia, I participated in several book memes hosted by various blogs. Most of those posts are long gone but a few remain such as several installments of “Sunday Salon” — the oldest one still on this blog is from 3 July 2011… Read more

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