February - 2021

Welcome to the central location for all the literary and book related things that I am working on at any given moment.

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Feb 27, 2021
3 min

Recommendation Consternation

This may sound ridiculous given that my free time outside my day job is filled with not only reading, but also talking about books, writing

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Has COVID Lockdown Killed My Love of Readathons?

Hardcover Hearts

Feb 21, 2021
4 min

Has COVID Lockdown Killed My Love of Readathons?

Of all the things that COVID Lockdown has changed, I didn't expect my love of readathons to be impacted. But it's not just dulled the anticipatory joy, it's erased it entirely. For those who may not know what a readathon is, it's usually a set time (week or weekend) where people challenge themselves to read as many books as they can, in that limited time frame. People track their reading and the time spent in the endeavor, and it's been something I used to look forward to all

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Hardcover Hearts

Feb 17, 2021
4 min

Right book, wrong format?

I just finished this book, These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card, and I wonder if I made a mistake. Did I pick the wrong format for this book? Whenever I read a book with colloquial dialect or another form of dialogue that would be enhanced by audio format, I will seek that out from my public library. I did that with These Ghosts Are Family. The first time I employed this technique, was after hitting a wall with Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings, and it was a ga

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Never in a million years- BBC Radio 4 Book Club

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Feb 13, 2021
3 min

Never in a million years- BBC Radio 4 Book Club

Every once in a while, I will get an odd message in my Instagram DMs. Most are odd in a bad sense, but this one seemed almost too good to be true. I was contacted by a producer for the BBC Radio 4 Book Club and invited to participate in a conversation with Tana French, for her book The Witch Elm (spelled The Wych Elm in the UK.) Instantly my brow furrowed with confusion- why me? I know so many more Bookstagrammers (people on Instagram who primarily post about books and readin

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Invisible Cities Project: Pushing myself to read more translated fiction in 2021

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Feb 11, 2021
1 min

Invisible Cities Project: Pushing myself to read more translated fiction in 2021

I am delighted to be participating in the Invisible Cities Project, which was started on YouTube by a group of wonderful BookTubers, and a few bloggers. Here are links to their sites and channels: Yamini - https://bit.ly/30OxoQG Stephanie - https://bit.ly/34RLwtJ Agnese - https://bit.ly/2GQHJUN / https://beyondepilogue.wordpress.com/ Natalie - http://www.youtube.com/curiousreader Nicole - https://bit.ly/3nwMUdG Wil - http://mybookishempire.blogspot.com/ Michael - http

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Hardcover Hearts

Feb 10, 2021
2 min

Welcome to my new site!

It's a new year and seems like a good time to make some changes. One of the changes I have wanted to make for a while is to move my repository of reading stats off Goodreads and onto the new platform StoryGraph. There are a few reasons for this change. I want to minimize my engagement with Amazon companies as much as I can, and it seems silly for me to make my reviews available for Goodreads (and therefore) Amazon to productize. The Goodreads site functionality is so dated,

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