It's been a while since I updated my Reading and Movie Challenges...too long, in fact...and I've done a great deal of reading, what with self-quarantining and all. (Not so much with watching movies.) I don't have time today to do a complete update...in fact, I don't have time to do more than post four mini-reviews...but at least I have started. A ( Read more... )

Since I last posted here, I have read sixteen books...that's provided I haven't lost track of one or two more...which is what I do when confined to the house. Books are my Go To happy place. I'm posting my thumbnails of ten of the sixteen and hope to get back soon to update with the other six...or whatever number I will have read by then ( Read more... )

Today is July 2, the second day of fiscal year 2021. Since I track the movies I view by fiscal year, that means this is my final report of movies watched for FY2020. My goal was 25, and I watched (drum roll) 26. I have to admit the last three or four are only on the list because I made a push in June to sit down and watchMy goal for books read for ( Read more... )

I've been self-quarantining since 9 March or for more than ninety days. What did I do with all that time? I cooked a lot more than usual, I kept my apartment moderately clean and neat, I watched TV, and I read. I read a lot, which is how I have reached 80% of my goal of fifty books read in 2020. I may have to change that goal to 100, or at least to ( Read more... )

2020 isn't half way over yet, and I have read more than half of my fifty book goal with seven months left in the year. Piece 'a cake ( Read more... )

In February, I spent six days in Florida with operasnook and chering. I ended up borrowing three books from operaskook: Fear by Bob Woodward, Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky, and Bellevue, also by Oshinsky. Turns out I'd read "Fear" and don't feel like rereading it. I also had a book I thought operasnook would be interested in, Escape. When I finished "Polio," I decided ( Read more... )

In the past month and a half since I last updated I've read seven books and watched four movies. Not a great number in either case, especially since I have self-quarentined myself for all but four days of that six weeks. Much too much MSNBC has been watched, plus some very worthwhile TV. If you haven't seen the four-part series, "Unorthodox," it's ( Read more... )

My first Challenge post of 2020, and the first two months of the year will already be history in a few hours. As always, I am pledging to myself that I will not let my Challenges get out of hand again like this, and...as always...I doubt that I'll manage to update monthly. That's my goal, however, and I'm sticking to it. Meanwhile, here are two ( Read more... )