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Learn a Book! – 202[1 Year Without A Gimmick]
That’s right. You never thought you’d see this day, did you? 2021, otherwise known as The Year Without A Gimmick for my annual Learn a Book! series. We’ve come a ...
![Learn a Book! – 20[20 From To-Be-Read]](https://i0.wp.com/talesofcasstastrophe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-02-23-08.47.40-1.jpg?resize=700%2C700&ssl=1 "Learn a Book! – 20[20 From To-Be-Read]")
Learn a Book! – 20[20 From To-Be-Read]
Another year, another witty gimmick gone half-made. Last year apparently I promised to read 30 books and then proceeded to immediately forget that and, for the rest of the year, ...
Recent Reads – Halloween Edition 2019
So, you’re telling me the season for spook is over? Think again, buddies. Some people leave Christmas decorations up until after New Year’s. Others leave Halloween decorations up until after ...
Learn a Book! – 30 in 2019
We’re going (going) back (back) to simple (simple). Look. The past few years I’ve been all talk, no read. I set these kitschy challenges for myself (that I adore! oh, ...
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Learn a Book! – 20[18 Authors]
2018 is the year of the people… who wrote books.
Believe it or not, I came up with the idea for this year’s annual reading challenge back in early 2016… two ...
Recent Reads – Halloween Edition 2017
Bookstores should offer human horse blinders at the front door, right next to the plastic shopping baskets. We’re all either the type of person who needs the former or the ...
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Learn a Book! – 20[Seven Teen Series]
One of these years I’m going to run out of gimmicks.
This is not that year.
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Voyages: Into Twilight [@ForksWA]
About three things I was absolutely positive. And “I love Forks” was every single one of them.
Recent Reads – July 2016
A week or so prior to moving, my mother instituted a ban on my buying any more books until after my arrival in North Carolina. I know. “You’ve got a ton you ...
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Books I Brought Abroad [@WestCorkIRL]
Travel Tip: figure out if your hosts used to own a bookshop in London and therefore have MASSES of reading options available for your perusal before you travel… Packing to ...