Tag Archives: reading
Addendums to the 2023 reading challenge
I like the list of books I came up with for my reading challenge. However, that list was my tentative planning list before I worked on the other genre challenges that I belong to on FaceBook. For those, I’m doing a bit of planning below. Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge for 2023 The Tea and Ink Society Challenge This site has the requirement that the books have to all be published before 1970. Hey, I was born before then, I guess I’m classic now too! The Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge (#CloakDaggerChal). The premise for this one is sheer volume: The … Continue reading →
The PolyWogg Reading Challenge 2023
A number of years ago, I started a reading challenge for myself. A little creative, a little classic, a little gamification to up my reading quotient and broaden my reading selections. Then it morphed into a group and about 20+ people joined. Because of some personal issues, I left that group last year and let others run with it. I have no idea if it’s still active, but I went in search of “other sites” that I could haunt to get my reading-discussion/virtual-book-club fix. It didn’t really work for me. It turns out that when I’m not part of a … Continue reading →
Today I choose to simply read (TIC00013b)
I love to read, but I find it hard to work into my schedule. Which is not to say my schedule is “full”, I just mean there aren’t natural times when I’m likely to read. When I was in elementary school, I would read in school when I was supposed to be doing school work, read while I walked home sometimes, read until supper, read until bed, and read on the way back to school the next morning where I would get three more books (I was in Grade 3 or 4 as I recall). Later, I would read on … Continue reading →
Reading Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck”
As part of PolyWogg’s Reading Challenge 2020, I wanted to read the uber-popular “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson. I frequently avoid pop psych stuff as the analytical side is rarely up to my standards, but it is subtitled a “Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life”, and I’m willing to give it a chance. So I started keeping notes as I read it. Chapter 1: Don’t try The basic premise is that most self-improvement efforts are too vague or too generic to be helpful. They are all about getting more, doing more, having more … Continue reading →