Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
I don’t subscribe to any newspapers (other than The Economist which describes itself as a newspaper, although I would consider it a magazine) but every now and then, when perusing a newspaper, usually at my in-laws’ house, I’ll stumble upon a column by someone who is reading a book a day and I’ll think How did they get a job doing that? The obvious answer being they read a book a day.
Well, fine then, I think. I’ll read a book a day too.
This is fairly laughable because I frequently say I’m going to do something every day and then don’t. A perfect example of this: I say I’m going to read a book a day and then don’t even manage to do so on day one. So that’s a spectacular failure right there.
Meanwhile, pinterest and mummy-boards are plastered with Advent Book Calendar posts these past few weeks, the point being to find twenty-four (or five) Christmas themed books, wrap them each up individually, then unwrap them each night to read to your kids, all while posting pictures of a perfectly coiffed family sitting by the fireplace reading Christmas stories all together. This seems quite manageable for me, barring the following:
Spectacular failure two right there.
So let’s smush these ideas together. Let’s see if I can read myself a book a day for an Advent Reading Calendar where the books don’t have to be about Christmas and are basically novellas and graphic novels I have around the house that I’ve never read. Then I can put them in a nice picturey thing like in Major League so that each day the picture gets more and more completed.
Maybe if I have goals, my life will improve.
Or maybe this will be another spectacular failure. It already might be because although I am going to fill out today’s below, I haven’t actually finished reading it yet, but I’m sure I’ll be able to, unless I fall asleep again at eight o’clock like I did last night.
(For my by-email readers, I doubt all the CSS skulduggery is going to work properly in your email, and for that I apologize. Equally, just because the CSS works on my Windows 10/Chrome combo doesn’t mean that it’ll work on your OS/your browser and I did absolutely zero cross-platform testing. But if you’re me, on my computer, hovering over the picture will give the book I read/am reading/am totally not blowing this off am going to finish for each day.)
In any case, behold below Day One and my has a bad word in the title book that I’m going to finish today!
Advent Calendar images from Minyreve.
I read:
Thoughts:
C21st Gods #1 by David Tallerman and Anthony Summey: Reviewed earlier this month.
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by D. Manus Pinkwater: My grade three teacher Mrs McCaggerty, who was my favourite teacher ever, read this book to our grade three class. Tesfa is in grade three. So I read it to her, although I got some sort of odd-Canadianized version of the story where everything was in metric rather than imperial and so all these New Yorkers in the 1970s are running around telling me how much the chicken weighs in kilograms and all that just seems wrong.
The Inkblots by Damion Searles: Review to come closer to the publication date.
I Love Dick by Chris Krause: Geoff: You always bring the strangest sounding books home from the library.
Avalanche by Julia Leigh: Reviewed earlier this month.
The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency: The Case of the Missing Moonstone by Jordan Stratford: I wanted to love this book. I cannot stress how much I wanted to have this book by Ah-May-Zzzzing, because I want another Lemony Snicket-esque series that I enjoy reading as much as Tesfa. But it was very much one of those kids books that are for kids, which is fine, but I’m not a kid, so I was not happy.
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne: One of those books where you just want to slap each and every one of the characters to get them to stop acting like morons.
Bright Air Black by David Vann: Review to come closer to the publication date.
The Jolly Regina by Kara LaReau: Review to come closer to the publication date.
Favourite book:
Not that likely you had to ask. I think about this book in the back of my head as I go about my day ever since I finished it. Zadie Smith, come be my friend please. I can see everything in your stories so perfectly, the images in my head must be real, must be what you see too.
Most promising book on my wishlist:
I watched:
I wrote:
Faeries faeries getting ‘er done.