No Book Buying Challenge 2015 Kickoff! Earlier this week we announced the Show Your Shelves Some Love a No Book Buying Challenge. Now we are sharing our own goals with you. You can also review the details of the post on the “No Book Buying Challenge” page from the menu above. We’re looking forward […]
Rose’s List of 2014 New Year’s Resolutions/Goals: To be fair, only a few of my resolutions are book related. Here they are in no particular order: Walk Maddox at least once a day, every day. For those who do not know, Maddox is my 1 year of Doberman puppy. To say he is […]
Show Your Shelves Some Love, No Book Buying Challenge 2015. You got ‘em, now read ‘em! Hosts: Terri from Second Run Reviews and all of us here at Chapter Break! Social Media: #ShelfLove The goal of this challenge is simple — for one year abstain from buying books (or set a monthly book budget) — […]
Non-reader Friends: Do they exist and are they even really “friends”? Julie: This is such an interesting topic, because don’t we usually choose to hang out with people we have a lot in common with? My husband is actually a non-reader. Well, he’ll read articles but not novels – he says he read enough in […]
How many books do you read in a year? Do you set yearly book reading goals? What is the most books you have ever read in a year? Julie: Since I actively use Goodreads, I have the past few years of number of book data I can share. As you can tell from the table […]
Grammar Julie: Being ESL, I admit that I’m not a grammar expert. That being said, most of the time I can tell if something is not grammatical and if it sounds wrong to me it usually bothers me. This is especially true in books. If I can tell there are mistakes left and right, that […]
Book Buying Budgets: Do you have one? Do you wish you had one? Do you track book buying expenses? Are you ready to show your book shelves some love by signing up for our No Book Buying Challenge??? Julie: I’ve kind of adopted a ‘stop buying books you hoarder’ budget where I can only buy […]
Halloween has just passed so lets discuss paranormal creatures. What creatures do you like to read about? Like the least? Got a good paranormal creatures rec??? Julie: It is no secret that I love the paranormal genre. I really enjoy reading about all kinds of creatures and I’m even in a book club called Creatures […]
How did you become a reader? Is reading something you have always enjoyed? Share your literacy story with us! Julie: My Grandma taught me how to read (Russian) at a young age, like 4, and I took to it very well. I’m told I used to read Pushkin’s children’s stories and people wondered if I […]
I run a book club. From time to time, I find it almost impossible to find good study guides/discussion questions for the books we are reading. So I thought I would share the study guides that I created myself and offer them for your use with your own book club. I do not mind if […]