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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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Book Lady’s Reading List, 2017

October 10, 2017 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Read in the light.

A frequently updated list of books I’m reading during 2017.
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My Progress on the PopSugar Reading Challenge for 2017

October 10, 2017 By Linda Jo Martin 4 Comments

Yes, I’m doing the PopSugar Reading Challenge again this year. It helped me last year to have a list of books to read, and I got a lot of the books finished (but not all). I’m so glad I did that, so I’m trying it again. [This post was originally published December 30, 2016. I’ve been posting updates throughout the year.] [Read more…]

Book Lady’s Reading List, 2016

December 28, 2016 By Linda Jo Martin 1 Comment

Book Lady Linda's Reading List

What I read in 2016.
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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.

All about Linda's Life.

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My childhood memoirs: ljm memoirs.

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California Reading

California Reading

California Reading
5 members

This group is for anyone wanting to read California based fiction or nonfiction.

Our recommended shelf

The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
by J.S. Holliday


Hillinger's California: Stories from All 58 Counties
Hillinger’s California: Stories from All 58 Counties
by Charles Hillinger





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RSS My Most Recent Book Reviews

  • The Sisters Brothers
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  • Brave Companions: Portraits in History
  • Just Open the Door: How One Invitation Can Change a Generation
  • Agnes Grey
  • The Master Plan of Evangelism
  • Katharine Barnwell: How One Woman Revolutionized Modern Missions
  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
  • Tramp for the Lord

RSS Goodreads Status Updates

  • Linda Martin is on page 158 of 314 of Scary Stories for Young F
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  • Linda Martin is 26% done with The Wide Wide Sea
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