A friend of mine has a son who had the most wonderful idea. He has created a new holiday called Wolfenoot (wolf-a-noot). From their page ( Read more... )

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Five Weeks in the Amazon, by Sean Michael Hayes, is the “book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit” selection for my 2017 Reading Challenge.


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The Woman in the Shaman's Body, by Barbara Tedlock, PH.D., is my 'Nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes' choice for my 2017 Reading Challenge.


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I really like the idea of mission101, where you make a goal list of 101 things to accomplish in 1001 days (which is about 2 ¾ years). Unfortunately, it's such a long amount of time - and my memory has been getting consistently worse - that I keep forgetting about the damned thing!

My last Mission 101 list ends in March, and as I look over my goals from that ( Read more... )

I've learned a lot from my last two reading challenges. Namely that I am a happy speculative fiction reader. I have pushed myself out into new genres...and hated them. So I'm done with all that.

I will primarily be focusing on reading whatever I darn well please, while again participating in the Mount TBR (To Be Read) challenge. I think I messed ( Read more... )

Shamans Through Time, by Jeremy Narby & Francis Huxley, is the 'About an Indigenous culture/Non-western history' selection for my 2016 (Blended) Reading Challenge.


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My foray into LinkedIn has been discouraging. I'd really hoped that some of the services I've offered folks might get me some recs or endorsements, but that hasn't been going as well as I'd hoped ( Read more... )

I will be merging the Read Harder and #BustleReads challenges, since several of the prompts overlap (or I can make them overlap). And whenever possible, I believe I'll throw in a dash of the Mount TBR challenge and read as many books as possible from the huge stash of unread books that I currently own ( Read more... )