Progress in housing! After the fire I stayed in a hotel two months, then my van one month, and now I’m in a travel trailer! I have creature comforts! I have a kitchen! Etc. …and of course, there are books. Yes, even though most of my book collection was burned in the forest fire, I still have plenty to read. A person can only read one book at a time anyway. Why do we need thousands?
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My Progress on the PopSugar Reading Challenge for 2021
This is my sixth year of doing the PopSugar Reading Challenge. This page will list books I read that fit the prompts of the challenge. I will modify the page as I read books throughout the year.
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2021 Goals, Intentions, Plans, Strategies, Hopeful Desires, the Annual To-Do List, Kitchen Sink Included, Etc.
Let’s not call these ideas “resolutions.” We all know resolutions have a bad reputation. This is going to be another one of my “living documents” that I’ll keep updating all through the year 2021. That’s the plan, anyhow. It is of course dependent on various factors, like having a computer and electricity and internet connection. If life continues as it has been, I might keep updating this until the end of the year. I guess after the forest fire in September, I’m not counting on anything to continue… just hoping it will.
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Book Lady’s December 2020 Reading Report & Diary
Still homeless after my home burned in a fire… unless you count my van, which I’m making a home inside of. Not sure what I want to do next.
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Book Lady’s November 2020 Reading Report & Diary
I’m trying to do too much all at one time. Currently I’m getting ready to exit the hotel where the Red Cross hosted me ever since the Slater Fire burned my home to the ground.
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Book Lady’s October 2020 Reading Report
I’m playing catch-up with reading due to the terrible forest fire that destroyed my home last month. For a while I could not even read, and then I wasn’t able to read much. Consequently I’m reading a lot of books this month that I wanted to read last month.
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Book Lady’s September 2020 Reading Report
I am flying through books this year! I’m excited to say that at the beginning of September, I have only twelve more books to read for the 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge – and this is the closest I’ve come to succeeding at the challenge in the five years I’ve been doing it. Of those 12 books, I’m already half-way through two of them.
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Book Lady’s August 2020 Reading Report
Summer is in full swing with grasses turned gold and wildflowers towering over them in my yard. I can’t mow down a wildflower, so I’ll read instead. Stay in where it is cool… and read.
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Book Lady’s July 2020 Reading Report
Midsummer reading! I’m loving the sunshine and roses. I’m still reading some of my June books but have added a few more to the stack I’m planning to read in July.
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Book Lady’s June 2020 Reading Report
I had a good reading experience last month and am hoping to keep up that momentum for June. I’m making more Booktube videos, and have other projects going on like gardening and interior house painting.
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An Anthology of California Short Stories
I’m reading It’s All in the Story: California (an anthology of California short stories) during 2020 – aiming for at least 4 stories per month. There are 24 short stories and so far I’ve liked all that I read. I created this page to make notes on the stories so I can remember them.
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Book Lady’s May 2020 Reading Report
Hello again! May flowers – now, there’s a concept, and a phenomenon! I should read at least one book this month with flowers on the cover. I’m sure that can be done. In fact, I have several planned.
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The Asian Readathon
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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Book Lady’s April 2020 Reading Report
Life changed dramatically in the last month. I’m still reading, but I think I would have done better with my reading without all the drama. We all are concerned about health right now, and so we should be. I see this as a good time to set aside differences and do what we can to care for and support others regardless of religion, political affiliations, and reading speed.
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