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Another 40 days of reading

I have been reading a little less this year and doing some other things. Attending book festivals, for example. Nevertheless, books have still been making their stately progress from the “to be read” pile, over to the read stack. The books … Continue reading

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2012 Reading Challenge Wrap Up

The challenge was to read 52 books in 52 weeks – and I decided that to actually make it challenging I should triple that. Therefore,  I was aiming for a total of 156 books for 2012. In the last month of the … Continue reading

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November’s reading challenge books

Now we’re getting to the sticky end – 2 months to go, 27 titles to meet my challenge of 3 x 52 books in 52 weeks. So here are the books I read in November: #130 Clemency Pogue Fairy Killer … Continue reading

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Three quarters of my reading challenge – September 2012

The end of September always catches me out – I’m amazed as ever to realise that we are three quarters of the way through the year. I had an unsettled month of reading again – I  somehow managed to accumulate … Continue reading

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Reading challenge – July books

I’ve been cracking along with my reading, if not with writing up my reviews, averaging three books a week, and staying on track for meeting my reading challenge of 52×3=156 books for 2012. Here, finally, are my reviews of the … Continue reading

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52 books for reading challenge

Here are reviews for the books I read in April towards my 52 x 3 reading challenge for 2012: #37 Complete Feltmaking:easy techniques and 25 great projects by Gillian Harris (Read 1/04/2012) The beauty of the lovely patterns in this … Continue reading

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2012 book challenge – March

Things went a little bit pyriform in March as regards my reading (whole days where I read nothing! nothing at all!! oh, the horror!!!) and, almost, with my writing up the books before the end of April. Anyway, here are … Continue reading

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My 52 book reading challenge – March

27: Mande leatherworkers and potters : art and heritage in West Africa by Barbara Frank. OK, so, obscure and if you wanted to read it, you’d need to ask for an interlibrary loan, but a fantastic book if you are … Continue reading

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52(x3) book challenge – the February files

I posted last month about the dozen books I read towards my goal of an annual tally of 52×3. February proved to also be a good month for reading – perhaps it was that extra day we had? In March, … Continue reading

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