Pick your poison reading challenge

It's that time of year again. It's dark before I leave work, and by the time I get home all I'm thinking about is a cup of hot chocolate and a good book to curl up with. With the New Year on the horizon, we're all thinking about resolutions and goals and pushing ourselves a little bit further. For the fourth year, I am excited to offer the Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge as an option for being creative with your reading goals this upcoming year. I have designed this challenge to be…

Wow. Where did 2023 go? I feel like I blinked and suddenly I'm packing my bags to head home for the holidays. I have about five books still to read to meet last year's goal and I'm not sure I'll make it! I always feel like I need to add a little something interesting in this introduction to be creative and fun and bond with everyone. But then I think about all those online recipes where you have to scroll through a 28 page summary of the author's childhood before you can learn how to make…

Wow. Another year. Another decade. Another reading challenge. This is my fifth year doing the Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge, and I'm very excited by this year's list. I've tried to include some stash busting categories as well as some that are a little more challenging. 2019 was a bit of a rough year for me. My mother passed in early March. Mom got her first job in a library when she was 14, and went on to work in different libraries throughout her life. It's from her that I really got…

I remember many years ago going to a talk that Madeleine L'Engle gave at my college. At the end of her talk, she opened the floor to questions and a young woman got up and asked, "I would really love to do what you do. What recommendation do you have for an aspiring writer?" L'Engle told her that until she published, she would need to have a job to pay the bills. "Don't take a job, like teacher, that will drain your creativity. Wash dishes at a restaurant, or similar manual labor. The work…

2022 Reading Challenge LORI has read 180 books toward her goal of 175 books. hide 180 of 175 (103%) view books A. Absence of Mallets by

Wow! Where did this year go?!!! I have been busily reading and dealing with some family matters and have neglected this blog terribly. I have four more books to read to finish last years challenge. Woohoo! Feeling much less pressure this year to finish up. But while I'm busily finishing up this year's list, I definitely want to get next year's challenge up so you can start planning. I'm really pleased with it. My super awesome friend, Good Karma, who helps me with the graphics, this year…

Take a walk down Gregory Road

Sometime early last year (or late 2014) I saw a 2015 reading challenge. Anyone who knows me knows I love to read. When I was a teenager I would often read a couple books a night (much to my father's dismay) and while I no longer have that luxury, I still love to settle down with a good book as often as possible. One thing I've found recently, though, is that my tastes have changed, and new genres are out there, and some of the genres I loved really don't exist anymore, so I've been a little…

Hosted by Take a Walk Down Gregory Road GOAL: Fortnightly I 26 books One category from each topic-you can choose 1 wildcard 1. A to Z A book with the letter Z in the title A book by an author who…