What is the Celtic Coasts Reading Challenge? A group created and curated by Carolyn of RiedelFascination that covers all three Celtic countries!  Whatever genre your passion might be;  if your author is born or residing in Celtic country, if your literature takes place among these countries, or is connected to them strongly:  this group is for you. The challenge runs from February 1, 2019 through January 31, 2020. I’ll be posting all the...

What is the My Kind of Mystery Challenge? If you read any mystery material at all:  this group of readers/reading challenge is for you.   “My Kind Of Mystery” is a reading challenge for every kind of mystery. That  includes autobiographies, tutorials, and other books by and about mystery authors, not just fiction.   Carolyn of RiedelFascination created and curates it. She also included a list of books she’s planning...

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acemedo. What a beautiful, painful, stunning book. Yet a book where pain doesn’t always win. I was hesitant to read it at first because of it being written in blank verse. I needn’t have been. I’m embarrassed, actually, that I knew of it for so long and yet held back, and it took a readathon to get me to go ahead and give it a chance. But isn’t that why we participate in readathons? Not just to...

Once upon a time… … three terrific book-vloggers decided to sponsor a  5-book readathon of black books featuring black people or written by black authors. It was initially was intended for part of February but quickly expanded to last the entire month. So if you see specific dates in February, you can ignore them and know that yes, it really does last for the entirety of Black History Month. Here’s a five-minute video...