Now that I have three cats in the house, I also have three litterboxes and three cat-trees. I guess that figures. I think Pippa and Esme have mostly been doing okay, although Esme's company is making Pippa more nocturnal than she was. Sometimes I'll stack their toys all in one place before bed and wake up to find them scattered to the four corners ( Read more... )

In the last few years, I've established certain patterns with books I read (e.g. one Tana French book every February, one Jane Austen book every December), and it's one of those things that makes me so geekily happy. I currently have the Little House book series in rotation twice a year, once in February and once in September. It was kinda funny, ( Read more... )

Sometime in late 2020, I made a list of twenty categories for books that I wanted to read in 2021. Some categories were ones that I knew would lead me to good books that I wouldn’t ordinarily read, some were borrowed from a list that Sara found on GoodReads, and some were just made up at random. I eventually read every category on this list except ( Read more... )

Every book I read in 2020, divided into five categories. I usually read only adult or children's books, but last year, I read a few young adult books for the first time in a while. Who can say what 2021 has in store for us, but I hope to read some more good books, at least. The average year published for these books was 1993.

Excellent
Watership ( Read more... )

I guess we all dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic in different ways this year. I started posting quotes from books I read on Facebook back in 2018, and around the beginning of the shutdowns, I started keeping an Excel list of each book as I posted them. I have fields for title, author, year published, year read, and author gender. I've probably spent ( Read more... )

The local libraries have been closed due to the Corona Virus shutdowns, so as I mentioned before, I decided to use the time to reread Watership Down. I just finished last night, and when I reached the end, I had to put it down and let out a long sigh. I still love that book so much. Every page. Every word. In a way, I'm grateful that the libraries ( Read more... )

Well, this Jewish girl made it all the way to Easter Sunday and kept up her "sacrifice" for Lent. My goal was to eat out only once a week. Obviously, the Corona virus outbreak became a thing during this time, so that made it easier. I don't think any restaurants are even allowing dine-ins anymore. Sara and I have both been trying to eat out less ( Read more... )

Here's the list of every book I read in 2019, once again into five categories. The average year published for these books was 2006. I've already finished my first book of 2020!

Excellent
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr.
Faithful Place, by Tana French.
What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty.
The Healing, by Jonathan Odell.

Above ( Read more... )

I kept up listening to audiobooks and reading children's books during Shabbat servies through 2018. I didn't read as many as Sara (as she's constantly reminding me), but I did read more and for the most part, better books this year than I did last year. I try not to read the same author more than once a year, and now that we're in a new year, I ( Read more... )

There isn't much to say about February, except that I will be so happy to see the end of this cold, rainy, dreary, gray month. We had so many days of nasty, depressing weather that one weekend, I actually went to the mall to walk around and crochet. I ordinarily despise malls and shopping, but I just needed to get out of the apartment and look at ( Read more... )