Quote of the Week – September 12, 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Quote of the Week – September 5, 2025
Jane Austen
You must be the judge of your own happiness.
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Quote of the Week – August 29, 2025
Richard Hooker
Change is not made without inconvenience.
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Books to Read- August 2025
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz
- Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
- Cook County ICU – Cory Franklin
- White Trash Warlock – David R Slayton
- Spillover – David Quammen
- Underland – Robert Mcfarlane
- The Secret Life of Groceries – Benjamin Lorr
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- The Nazi Hunter – Alan Elsner
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#HRCYED Progress Update
It’s been a little over a month since I started working on the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do (HRCYED) 2.0.
While I’ve been putting up reading lists for each prompt, I might not always read exactly as planned. Part of the challenge for myself is trying to do as much of these prompts as possible using the books that I already have on hand. This is my round up of what progress I’ve made so far:
Completed Prompt: Subgenres of Choice
Books Read:
- Can’t Spell Treason without Tea (Teas and Tomes #1) Rebecca Thorne
- A Matter of Death and Life – Simon R Green
- This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us – Edgar
- Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
- The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London) – Ben Aaronovitch
- Dungeon Crawler Carl (#1) – Matt Dinniman
In Progress:
- By the Hundreds: 3/7
- Series Staircase: 3/10
- The Last 10 Years: 2/10 or 11 if you want to earn +5 points
- Adaptations: 3/8
- Around the World: 1/7
- Spooky Creatures: 1/8
- Become the Avatar: 1/4
- Animals: 3/5
- Queer Alphabet: 2/9
- BIPOC Authors: 1/10
- New Releases: 2/12
- Challenge Yourself: 1/??
- Non-Fiction: 3/5
So, I’ve definitely found myself reading a lot more because of this challenge and I am getting through my TBR. All in all, I think this has been a good challenge to take on even if it’s one more piece of stress I probably shouldn’t be taking on.
Anyway, if you’d like to learn more about HRCYED, you can find the announcement here:
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