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The Asian Readathon

April 25, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 5 Comments

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The Asian Readathon is back for a second year! How exciting! I had so much fun with this last year. This will happen during the month of May, 2020.
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March Mystery Madness 2020 @ Booktube

March 14, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 1 Comment

March Mystery Madness 2020, art by Linda Jo Martin

March Mystery Madness is a Booktube Readathon…. totally the in thing right now as it is the month of March, and who does’t love a good mystery novel?
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2020 Reading Plan

March 8, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

I find it helpful to have a plan. I may not follow the plan perfectly [life is so unpredictable] and I may not reach my goals [though I try] but if I have a reading plan, I get a lot more done. So, here’s my 2020 reading plan.
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101 Great Books Recommended by the College Board – Classic Novels and Plays

February 24, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 8 Comments

Great Books

Just updated! This list has been on my blog almost ten years. I love to read classic literature, and am intrigued by this list of 101 Great Books Recommended for College Bound Readers – recommended by the College Board.
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My Progress on the 2020 A to Z Challenge

February 24, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

This challenge comes from a Goodreads group.
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March 2020 Booktube Readathons, Readalongs, & Challenges

February 22, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

March Booktube adventures! Now is the time to start planning for March 2020 reading. Booktubers often choose their literature by participating in readathons. This is a short list of Booktube readathons for March 2020. It is not a comprehensive list, meaning: there are other readathons that aren’t listed here for various reasons. These are the readathons I’m most likely to participate in.
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My Amazing, Bookish Valentine’s Day Gift

February 14, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 3 Comments

If your loved one is an audiobook loving person, this could be the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. I confess, I gave it to myself last year, and I’ve enjoyed it so much, I’m doing the same thing this year.
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels – How Many Have You Read?

February 8, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 3 Comments

I use this page to keep track of Pulitzer prize winning fiction I’ve read. At this point, I haven’t read very many, but I’d like to read more. Let me know how many of these you’ve read and what you recommend or don’t recommend. If you’re a blogger, make your own page and comment here with a link to your blog’s Pulitzer Prize fiction page.
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I Finished the PopSugar Reading Challenge for 2020!

January 5, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 11 Comments

Trees near Indian Creek Road, Happy Camp, by Linda Jo Martin

Oh, happy me… I finished the 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge on December 29, 2020 at 6:41pm. This page lists books I read that fit the prompts of the challenge. I started the page in January and modified it all year long as I read the challenge books.
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Seven Romance Novels I’ve Read and Can Recommend

February 12, 2019 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Romance Novels

Today I noticed that Goodreads has declared this to be “Romance Week” so I followed their links to a page naming the Top 100 Romance Novels on Goodreads. I don’t normally read romance novels, so out of 100 novels named, I’ve read only 7 of them, and of those, 4 were classics.
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50 Books to Read Before You Die – My progress on this challenge

January 23, 2019 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

I just love book lists – almost as much as I love books themselves. I got this book list from a Goodreads group with the same name as the list. So . . . thought I’d put the list on my blog here to keep track of which books I’ve actually read, and we’ll see how many I get to read before . . . . that morbid thing happens.
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My 2019 Reading Plan and Tentative Schedule

December 30, 2018 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

My plan for reading this year is to stay close to the plan I already made for the 2019 PopSugar Reading Challenge. That will provide for a lot of diversity in my reading as I’ll be exposed to genres I wouldn’t otherwise pick up to read. I will also have other books to read, because not everything is covered in that challenge.
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My Progress on the PopSugar Reading Challenge for 2019

December 15, 2018 By Linda Jo Martin 17 Comments

I’m doing the PopSugar Reading Challenge again in 2019! I won’t start reading the books on this list until January but I’m already choosing books for the 2019 version of the challenge.
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My Progress on the PopSugar Reading Challenge for 2018

November 7, 2018 By Linda Jo Martin 6 Comments

Updated . . . Once again, for the third year in a row, I’m participating in the PopSugar Reading Challenge.
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About Me

Hi, I'm Linda, the Book Lady, and I'm excited about reading. A book is a gift you give yourself. It is so much fun to open that cover and discover what was hidden within. Books share the wisdom of the ages with us. Who wouldn't want that? So I read frequently and encourage reading. If you're a reader, let me know by becoming my friend on GoodReads.


My novel, River Girl, is about a girl living in the Klamath River Valley.

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January reading:

The Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren

Girl With A Pearl Earring

Charlotte's Web, by EB White


Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Recently finished reading:

Single Gay Christian, by Gregory Coles
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Black Hawk
Spinning Silver by Naomi Movik
The Glass Hotel

It's All In the Story: California
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
An Anonymous Girl
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Blindness, by Jose Saramago
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
New Kid
Hattie Big Sky

Anxious for Nothing
It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville

Light on the Devils: Coming of Age on the Klamath
Your Blue is Not My Blue
How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

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