The heat of summer is upon us. The world is responding.
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Book Lady Linda’s June 2025 Reading Report & Diary
June! I’ve got a vegetable garden this year, and flowers too. This makes such a bright and pretty yard to look at. I think I should be out there painting things.
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Book Lady Linda’s May 2025 Reading Report & Diary
My plan for May is to finish reading books I’ve started then set aside for various reasons. I have a shelf full of them. Since I’ve decided to “read what I own” in 2025 I think this will help me make progress. I pledged to read 100 books I already own before I buy anymore. So far this year I’ve read only 10. (Audiobooks are not counted in this challenge, so I can continue to buy and read as many of them as I want/need/desire.)
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Book Lady Linda’s April 2025 Reading Report & Diary
April. The scent of springtime, the bright sunshine, free natural vitamin D, daffodils emerging from their winter hiding places, gardening hopes renewed, and books. Of course, there have to be books. Either that, or take a hike. Your choice.
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Cutting the Cord – A Flash Fiction Short Story
I found this story in my archives on Google Drive. I wrote it on December 16, 2007.
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Book Lady Linda’s March 2025 Reading Report & Diary
March is a great month for reading challenges! I’ll be participating in both Middle Grade March and March Mystery Madness. These are both Booktube events.
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March Mystery Madness 2025 – Mystery Novels of the 1950’s
This reading challenge has been ongoing every March for ten years now!
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Book Lady Linda’s February 2025 Reading Report & Diary
February is a month celebrating love. This would be a good time to create a page in one of my journals just for listing all the people and things I love.
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Book Lady Linda’s January 2025 Reading Report & Diary
Happy New Year! 2025 is here! And January is a great month to stay inside, stay warm, and read books.
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2025 Reading Goals (& Booktube Plans)
It has been a few years since I created an annual reading plan, and now that I’m settled in my new home (I’ve been here a year already) I’m ready to re-evaluate reading intentions. [Read more…]
David McCullough Readalong 2024-2026
I am hosting a Booktube readalong for all the historical books written by David McCullough from 1968 through 2019. The books will be read in the order in which they were published. This will give us a look at the development of this great historian’s writing career.
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Saying More About My Life :: Heart :: Journaling June :: Boxes
How should I use this blog? Sometimes I want to say more than can be said in my monthly reading diary, so I’ve decided to resume writing more general articles here. After all, what is a blog if not a place to share our hearts with our readers?
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Goal: Read a Book From or About Every Country in the World
A new goal for me! I want to read at least one book set in, about or from every country. All the books I’ve already read will count toward this: fiction or nonfiction, juvenile, whatever!
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