BW48: Best Books of 2022

Happy Sunday! It's that time of year when we are all thinking about next year's reading plans and  making our lists and all the best of the best 2022 book lists are popping up.   According to the Chinese zodiac 2023 is going to be the Year of the Rabbit, which is great for me since we all know how much I get lost following rabbit trails and jumping down rabbit holes on the internet.  

I'm resisting the urge to buy at the moment, adding books that sound interesting or intriguing to my wish list, and will  revisit them later, rather than impulse buy.  My kindle is full of books that I look at and wonder what was I thinking.  But then again, I have a broad assortment to choose from, whatever my mood. I'll read them in the end, eventually.  Let's explore: 

Readers Digest Best Time Travel Books That Will Transport You to Another Time and Place and 30 Best Fantasy Books of All Times.  Lots of rabbit holes to fall into with links to historical fiction, romance, young adults books, and more. Will be coming back to this one over and over again. 

Bill Gates 5 of my all time favorite books.  Mendeleyev's Dream is on my wishlist and I should probably consider rereading Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land since it keeps popping up for me.  Synchronicity!

Powell's Best Fiction Books of 2022 - the staff's descriptions alone will make you want to read every book on the list.  

Financial Times Best Fiction of 2022 - An eclectic list of  fiction 

NPR's massive list of Books We Love  - You'll be dipping in and out of this one for days. 

Time's 100 Must Read Books of 2022 - Great for the cover art alone. 

BookPage Best Non Fiction Books of 2022 - A wide range of non fiction that are intriguing. 

Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the Week are E and Explore. 

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BW47: Happy Thanksgiving

 

Happy Sunday! Did you know today is absurdity day so do something silly. The 21st is World Hello day so go out and say hello to people. The 22nd is Go for a Ride day so explore.  The 23rd is National Espresso day so fix yourself a fabulous cup. The 24th is Thanksgiving so eat lots of turkey. The 25th is either Black Friday or Buy nothing day so do or don’t, it’s up to you. Whispers – go buy lots of things.  *wink*   We are celebrating this week in our household too with my sister and brother in law’s 44th anniversary, hubby’s brother’s 67th birthday, my 63rd birthday, plus Thanksgiving. We have much to be thankful for.

A Song for Merry Harvest

By 

Eliza Cook 

Bring forth the harp, and let us sweep its fullest, loudest string.

The bee below, the bird above, are teaching us to sing

A song for merry harvest; and the one who will not bear

His grateful part partakes a boon he ill deserves to share.

The grasshopper is pouring forth his quick and trembling notes;

The laughter of the gleaner’s child, the heart’s own music floats.

Up! up! I say, a roundelay from every voice that lives

Should welcome merry harvest, and bless the God that gives.

The buoyant soul that loves the bowl may see the dark grapes shine,

And gems of melting ruby deck the ringlets of the vine;

Who prizes more the foaming ale may gaze upon the plain,

And feast his eye with yellow hops and sheets of bearded grain;

The kindly one whose bosom aches to see a dog unfed

May bend the knee in thanks to see the ample promised bread.

Awake, then, all! ’tis Nature’s call, and every voice that lives

Shall welcome merry harvest, and bless the God that gives.

Happy Thanksgiving! 

A to Z and Back Again Letter and Word of the Week are F and Foresight.

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Please join us for our 15th annual Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks reading adventure

 

Join us for our 15th annual Read 52 books in 52 weeks reading adventure. 

The goal is easy - Read 52 Books.  We don't any set reading lists so how you get there is up to you. However, we do have a variety of challenges including weekly, monthly mini challenges, annual and perpetual challenges to entice your reading taste buds   If you aren't up to 52 but want to join in, you can set your own goal.  

2023 52 Books Bingo - 25 new categories which will take us on a exploration around the world. 

2023 Bookish Bookology - Our author of the month in which you can read one or more books by the author, or spell out their first or last name. 

2023 A to Z and Back Again - All the way from A to Z and back again as we play with words.  

Participate in one or more of our perpetual challenges:  

Agatha Christie  -- Read her books in chronological order as listed, group by detective or collection, or randomly if you choose. Read at least three per year.

Brit Tripping --- A year long mystery read traveling the Roman Roads through England reading reading a book from each of the 45 counties with a few extra trips to London. 

Mind Voyages - A science fiction / fantasy challenge through the decades, exploring the Hugo and Nebula winners and nominees, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Heinlein. 

Well Educated Mind --  Continue to explore the classics in 6 categories: Fiction, Autobiography, History/Politics, Drama, Poetry and Science. 

Plus Dusty and Chunky, Feed Your Muse, Inspiration, Nobel Prize Winners and Sounds of Silence.

There is a little bit of something for everyone. Follow your muse and read widely or wildly, follow rabbit trails, read outside your comfort zone or stick with the tried and true. Choose whatever path is right for you. 

The mini and perpetual challenges are all optional, Mix them up anyway you like and follow your own path in the quest to read.  

• The challenge runs January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023
• Our book weeks begin on Sunday.
• Participants may join at any time. 
• All forms of books are acceptable including e-books, audio books, etc. 
• Re-reads are acceptable as long as they are read after January 1, 2023
• Books may overlap other challenges. 
• Create an entry post linking to Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks and sign up in the link below.  
• If you don't have a blog or social media account, post about your reads in the comments section of each weekly post. 
• The link widget will be added to the bottom of each weekly post to link to your book reviews, and closes at the end of each book week. 

BW46: A bit of this, a bit of that!

 

Happy Sunday! I'm leaping down rabbit holes today on the internet, exploring this, that, and the other.  Kind of like my sleep lately.  Ever since the time change, I've been waking up around 4, unable to get back to sleep for a while. Ideas bounce through my head for the story I'm working on as well as book ideas and book bingo, too tired to write them down and hope I'll remember them in the morning.  Some ideas remain when I wake, others are still floating around in my mind, on the tip of my tongue but not quite there. Oh well. What was I saying. Oh yes. *grin*  I've been exploring, letting my fingers do the walking through the web.   A sample of today's finds. Enjoy! 

In Search of Marcel Proust

Where to Start with Nora Ephron

Entangled Publishing Launches Red Tower Books, Focused on Romantic SFF

On writing a New Take on the Thin Man, set in Space

Hungarian Speculative Fiction: Forceful, Vicious, Viscous

Murder in the Moors: Crime Fiction Books Set in the English Moors

True Life: I was a Dragon Book Kid

Antarctica Reading List.

25 Best Steampunk Books (2022)

Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the week are G and Grateful.

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BW45: 52 Books Bingo - Different Culture

 

Courtesy of Smarter Travel 

Happy Sunday. Our next 52 Books Bingo category is a Different Culture which links up quite well with our Crime Spree Around the world for this month. 

Why Diverse Books Matter: Mirrors and Windows

20 Fascinating Cultural Traditions Around the World

What Colors Mean in Other Cultures

Experience New Things with These 21 Books About Cultures That May Not Be Your Own

10 Cross-Cultural Novels that Illuminate the World We Live In

27 Books About Different Cultures & Faraway Places: Travel Writers’ Recommendations

RD's best books by Native American, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Authors.

GQ's Best Modern Middle Eastern Literature to read right now.

Europa Editions World Noir: International Mysteries and Crime Fiction. 

12 classic European novels to add to your reading list

Our A to Z and Back Again Letter and Word of the Week are H and Hubris.

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