More Halloween pictures this week…but instead of creepy ones, I thought I’d put the emphasis on pumpkins!
I went over to my parents’ house this week, and carved pumpkins with my dad. It’s a tradition. 🙂
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Today’s blog hop is hosted by The Fake Steph, and the question is:
Is there a book that has been languishing on your TBR pile even though you spent months anticipating its release?
I can honestly say I don’t–technically–do this. People who have seen my bookcases probably won’t believe me when I say this, but I am extremely selective about what books I buy. Unless I really trust an author, I rarely ever buy a book that I haven’t already read. So I rarely end up with much anticipated books actually in my house that I don’t get to for ages. I get unread ones sometimes, but they tend to be gifts or ridiculously cheap impulse buys, or something from a book swap.
But I am guilty of the spirit of this. I see a book, or hear of a book that’s coming out, get deeply excited…and then don’t actually read it for months or even years. I don’t know why that is, so if someone has a theory, I’d love to hear it! My best guess is that there are just too many books, and I get sidetracked. Or I’m somehow waiting for the “right” moment.
And then sometimes I’m not sure about reading a book…but it just stays in the back of my mind as one I ought to read some time. Pirates! by Celia Rees was one of those. I saw it in bookstores and the library for years, and kept thinking I ought to read it (because, I mean–pirates!) This was one that languished on my pile. I saw it at a book swap, got quite excited, brought it home…and didn’t actually read it for months. When I finally did, it was good, although I didn’t love it enough to keep it.
I do think a factor may be that there’s just always another book. So the To Be Read list is not so much a pile, as a line…and it takes some time for books to get to the front!
Anyone else see this in their own reading? Anyone with a theory on why we don’t just read the books we get excited about?
I’ve mentioned in previous posts that I love walking around my neighborhood. Lately, neighbors have been breaking out the Halloween decorations, so with the holiday coming up next week, I thought I’d share a few!
These horrid things live next door to me. I don’t even dislike spiders, but knee-high creatures that suddenly appear as I come around a bush–yikes! First there was one, but they seem to be multiplying…
This is a favorite–cute with a little ghostliness! Continue reading “Saturday Snapshot: Halloween Decorations”
I am SO ready for fall and winter. That may partially be because of R. I. P., but mostly it’s the fault of the weather–we had a tantalizing few days of cold and clouds, before going back to upper-80s this past week. I am trying to savor the cold mornings and pretend not to notice the hot afternoons. I can’t wait until it’s actually cold enough for all my favorite fall and winter things–like sweaters and heavy quilts and scented candles.
In the meantime, I’m amusing myself for Saturday Snapshot this week with a sort of Fall Tableau.
What could be better on a dark and chilly evening than a cozy afghan, hot tea and warm cookies, candlelight and Hitchcock?
I’m just impatient. I suppose it’ll get chilly soon enough…and I watched Rebecca this week anyway.
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I’m participating in the Book Blogger Hop again this week, which invites book bloggers to answer a bookish question and visit each other’s blogs. Hosted at Knitting and Sundries this week, here’s today’s question:
How did you find out about book blogging and what made you decide to start one yourself?
This is a funny one, because I don’t feel like there was a point when I found out about book blogging as a thing. I’d been involved in my company’s blog in the past, so I’d done some writing and knew how to use WordPress. I toyed with the idea of starting my own blog for a while, but didn’t know what I wanted to write about. I needed a topic that I knew I could generate ideas around for a long time, and eventually it occurred to me that, considering how much I read, book reviews were probably a good direction to go…
I didn’t actually read book blogs before I started my own, which maybe is odd…but it never really occurred to me that it was a thing. I suppose I assumed that other people had the same kind of idea and that there was probably a blog community of sorts, but it wasn’t until I started writing myself that I explored that community. And then I was lucky, because I started right around the Cybils, and lots of blogs were linking to the blogs that were judging the awards…which gave me ready-made lists of bloggers focusing on the same genres I was interested in.
Since then, I shake-up the list of blogs in my reader every so often. I love finding new blogs that old favorites are linking to, or by participating in blogging events.
I know lots of my readers are also book bloggers–how did you get started?
Tales of the Marvelous 