Margaret Deland
“One must desire something, to be alive.”
Quote of the Week – September 4, 2026
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Books Read – August 2026
Fiction
Ship of Death (The Destroyer #28) – Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy
Backup – Jim Butcher
The Cellar Below the Cellar – Ivy Grimes
Non- Fiction
Cultish – Amanda Montell
Short Stories
“There Will Come Soft Rains” – Ray Bradbury
“A Bottomless Grave” – Ambrose Bierce
“Asleep in Armageddon” – Ray Bradbury
“2BOR2B” by Kurt Vonnegut
Poetry
“There Will Come Soft Rains” – Sara Teasdale
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Books to Read- August 2026
- Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil – V. E. Schwab
- Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse – Simon Brett
- Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library – Amanda Chapman
- Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing – Nicholas Meyers
- Hatchet Girls – Joe R Lansdale
- Lessons in Magic and Disaster– Charlie Jane Anders
- Automatic Noodle – Annalee Newitz
- The Magician of Tiger Castle – Louis Sacher
- Alchemy and a Cup of Tea – Rebecca Thorne
- Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle
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Quote of the Week – August 28, 2026
Helen Keller
“Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much.”
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Quote of the Week – August 21, 2026
Dionysius the Elder
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
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Quote of the Week – August 14, 2026
Brene Brown
“We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”
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HRCYED 3.0 July Progress Report
It’s time! It’s time! I’ve just signed myself up for reading 150 books in a year. Or, you know 75 if you manage to find a double-up for everything. Right now, I’m trying for the full whack. 1 prompt = 1 book. I’ll reevaluate about three months out from the end. Since I can always add a double for a book as opposed to trying to destroy my sanity.
What little is left of it.
Anyway, here’s where we stand so far. I’m only going to record the blocks I’ve started working on:
- Choose Your Party 1/5
- Backlist Author 1/5
- Choose Your Curriculum 2/5
- Pocket Monster Acquisition 1/5
- An Anthology of Authors 1/7
- All Those Secret Prompts 1/12
Are you doing HRCYED this year?
Have you got it all planned out or are you flying by the seat of your pants?
In theory, I have a plan. It’s already adjusted itself twice, but that’s how plans go isn’t it?
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