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O = Opinionated

April 17, 2026

O is for Opinionated, which is a thing that I am. Most of us are opinionated even if you are someone who insists you are not. You have a brain therefore you are. It's the driving reason so many of us have blogs in the first place: Have Opinion, Must Share. Some people share their opinions on crochet, fashion, photography... I share my opinion on books. I love to read. If you've been following right along you probably have guessed that by my previous posts, but if this is your first visit now you know. My blog was inspired by my need to read, a desire to connect with other readers, and yes, I wanted to share my opinion on what it is I'm reading. I also wanted to put all those literature courses I took in college to use, which is to say, I spent an awful lot of time learning how to analyze books. So now I give my opinion on books I've read. I try to keep my reviews fair. I try to make sure a book I'm reviewing negatively doesn't come off as bullying. If I get trap...

N = Nonsense

April 16, 2026

Today I want to talk about book bans and banned/challenged books. Or as I like to call it, nonsense. I'm going to start by saying I don't believe in book bans. I mean, I know they aren't mythical, they exist. But I don't believe you have the right to tell me what I can and cannot read just because you don't find it appropriate for you. And when books get stripped from school libraries, I don't believe you should have the right to tell someone else's child what they can and cannot read, that's really between that child and their parents. Technically speaking, book banning is still illegal. There are certainly people who want specific books banned from public consumption, and there are people who have advocated successfully for certain books to be pulled from library shelves, but you can't actually prevent people from reading these books. In the United States, there's a little thing called the 1st Amendment and I tried to detail what it means on t...

M = Myth

April 15, 2026

Myth - a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. This is the definition of ' myth ' provided by Copilot when I Google-searched the definition of a myth. Typically, to my knowledge most of the best known myths are stories of gods and goddesses such as in Greek and Roman mythology (it even comes from the Greek word ' mȳthos '), and more controversially we could include the Bible in this category of story. Circe by Madeline Miller would be one example of a book that deals with mythology, detailing the life of the daughter of Helios. Seemingly powerless and ordinary, she eventually becomes the goddess of witchcraft and banished to an island where she hones her craft and takes the company of men. Another would be The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly , where the worried mother of a comatose daughter is whisked away to Elsewhere, a ...

L = Listening

April 14, 2026

Today's blog post is about listening, more specifically listening to audiobooks. Audiobooks are simply books that have been converted into an auditory narration. They're often preferred by people who don't have time to sit still and would rather utilize those headphones to listen to a good book, rather than use their eyes. I know there are people who exclusively listen to audiobooks, but I'm not a big audiobook listener. My attention span is a little too short to concentrate on the narration, my ears eventually reducing the voice to white noise. I've only successfully completed 4 audiobooks in my life: World War Z 's unabridged audiobook, which was done entirely with voice actors and was a format I loved best. I've listened to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry , Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster , and I've listened to my favorite novel Call of the Wild . Audiobooks are a bit controversial among diehar...

K = Kaboodle

April 13, 2026

As in the whole kit-and-kaboodle. That's right. Today we're going to talk about those collections. My collection, as you may have guessed it, is made up of books. It's organized by genre (mostly). I can always put my hands on a fantasy or a mystery or a horse book (horses, I've determined, are their own genre) because I always know exactly where it is. My only deviation from genre, is author collections. If I have multiple books by the same author, I group them together instead. I haven't counted my books. I don't know how many I have. Not as much as some, but definitely more than others. I don't share my books often. They usually come home dog-eared or with teeth marks from an inquiring kitten or smelling of cigarette smoke and occasionally they don't come home at all. I'm a collector you see, unless I truly didn't like a book and think someone else will enjoy it more, I don't just hand them out. I might want to read them again and I certai...

J = Just Reading

April 11, 2026

"What are you doing?" "Just reading." I suppose this post is sort of a tie-in with B and F and my upcoming K entry. Books are wonderful, and we all have Favorites, and K would be telling so let's hold off on that one. I'm just reading... Done on the weekends with my morning coffee while I sit in my rocking chair, or done outside in the shade in an adirondak, or done sprawled out on a towel at the beach. And let's not forget those blog posts when I'm sitting in front of a computer. I'm just reading. This whole blog is basically about my reading habits, and while I read some genres more than others, I read a little from almost every one. I'm a thrill seeker; excluding my aversion to carnival rides, skydiving, reckless driving, or anything else that could get me injured or killed... Okay, maybe 'thrill seeker' is the wrong term but I'm constantly looking for the next book to thrill me, enchant me, fill me with passion, sweep me off m...

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