Category: 2023 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
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Book 04: The Long Hitch Home, “a book with a map”
This is a book with a map, and what a map! Jamie Maslin recounts in it his adventures hitchhiking from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, where he lives now, to London, England, his hometown. You could slightly change the expression “go big or go home” to “go big and go home” to give it an entirely different…
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Book 03: Tarot. The Library of Esoterica, “a book you meant to read in 2022”
So, I got this book for my birthday last year, and although I skimmed through it then, I really wanted to pause and take my time to read it without rush. Tarot has such a rich and extensive tradition that one will take years to grasp all the symbology embedded in it. I believe the…
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Book 02: Pax, “a book about a pet character”
When you start reading Pax, you have the feeling that everything in this story is unusual, out of place–as often are the events in our lives. Peter is a twelve-year-old boy, and when he was about seven he saved Pax, a fox, from certain death. But now there is a war coming, and Peter’s dad…
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Book 01: Pachinko, “a book about a family”
Wow! What a great start for the 2023 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge! I was waiting for some books at the library to become available either physically, electronically, or in audio, when Pachinko by Min Jin Lee appeared as a lucky loan. I loved, and highly recommend it. This is a family saga telling the hardships they…
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Getting ready for the 2023 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge!
It’s that exciting time of our lives again: seasons are changing, holidays are approaching, families and friends are getting reunited — we certainly deserve that after so much time apart for the last couple of years. It’s an opportunity to evaluate how we are doing so far, make plans, and establish goals for the next…
