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Book Lady’s January 2021 Reading Report & Diary

January 1, 2021 By Linda Jo Martin 4 Comments

Home Sweet Home . . . art/haiku by Linda Jo Martin http://lindajomartin.com

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

January 1, 2021 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

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.

January 1, 2021 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

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

December 9, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

The Flute Player - Veteran's Memoirial Sculpture Garden, Weed, California

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

November 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

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

October 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Art: The Gift, by Linda Jo Martin

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

September 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Bird Art by Linda Jo Martin

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

August 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

Wild and Precious - art by Linda Jo Martin

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

July 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

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

May 31, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

Art by Linda Jo Martin

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

May 30, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 5 Comments

It's All In the Story: California

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

May 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 4 Comments

Angel art by Linda Jo Martin

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

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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Book Lady’s April 2020 Reading Report

April 1, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

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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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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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ? Cicero - Art by Linda Jo Martin http://lindajomartin.com
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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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