Musing Monday

Musing Monday 1/16/17

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

 

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: How do you make time for reading when you are very busy? Or how do you find a better balance between wanting to spend time reading and other commitments?

I have had this particular thought on my mind a lot lately and thought it would be interesting to see what others thought or do. I have been extremely busy the last few weeks with work. I have also had personal stuff but it is the work that has been keeping me from reading. This week especially I was not able to read at all. I feel like I cheated on my book by not reading it, lol. So hit me with you tips,  or just your muse.

Musing Monday 1/9/17

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

Random little vent me and WordPress need to have a talk about it missing scheduled posts times, lol sorry it is a few hours behind what I planned this week!

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What do you think about books being made into movies or tv shows and do you always read the book first?

With award season being upon us and as watching an interesting Golden Globes had me thinking about just how many movies and shows are made from books. The Night Manager took several awards (well done too) but the book was awesome. The Night Manager is one of those for me that it was really cool to see characters I already enjoyed coming alive. Jonathan Pine was such a complex character and Tom Hiddleston really did bring him to life for me. I was pleased to see he won a Golden Globe for it too, as did Hugh Laurie and Olivia Coleman.

So I know I have rambled on a little bit here, but I actually like most book to screen translations. Not all the time, of course, because sometimes they really do screw it up, but in general I do. I always try to read the book first there have been a few times I didn’t know it was based on a book until after so I went back and read the book. How about you?

 

Musing Monday 1/2/17

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

 

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Have you joined any challenges in reading for the new year? Do you have any general goals book or even not book related for 2017?

Welcome to the new year. I hope that everyone reading this will have a great year for this coming year. I know personally 2016 was a bit of a stinker for me.

I did manage to just barely hit my reading goal for 2016, but I did not end up posting all of the reviews for the books that I did read. Honestly, some of them were such stinkers they aren’t even worth the review, lol. I also managed to meet several of my other challenges, but I did not finish the Alphabet soup challenge or the British challenge.

I have joined several challenges again in 2017 and I am really hoping to hit them all this year. One of my goals in general for 2017 is to allow myself to be more rounded in how I spend my time. I used to have no problem hitting more than one book per week goals, but then I started to crochet and for the last several years have basically been doing crochet all the time. My Kindle can read to me and my audio books have been nice, but I need to start reading with my eyes again this year. So big goal is to make more time for other things again.

The 2017 reading challenges for me include:

52 books for the year
Witches and Witchcraft challenge
British book challenge
Alphabet soup challenge
Paranormal challenge
Mount TBR challenge
Historical reading challenge
YA reading challenge

I know this is a lot of challenges I am an addict, luckily I always make sure to join the ones that allow crossovers into other challenges. I am also giving some serious thought into creating my own reading challenge. I started thinking about it far too late to hit a 2017 challenge, but once I work through the details in my head, I might launch a “half year challenge” in the summer as a test to see if there is any interest for 2018.

Musing Monday 12/19/16

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

 

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Do you tend to find that you make more time to read during the holiday season? Or do you have less time to read because of the hustle of the season?

 

With Christmas time and all those other wonderful holidays of the winter (summer if you are in the other hemisphere!) nipping at our heels, I thought it would be fun to do a seasonal question. For me it can vary from Holiday to holiday, this year I have actually had more time to read. Or at least have my kindle read to me. While I work away on creating the handmade gifts I need to get done and wrapped up, I can listen to book after book. It might not be as ideal as holding one of my paperbacks, but I like being able to multi task. I also really enjoy doing two things that I find calming and rewarding at once.

Musing Monday 12/12/16

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Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Does reading help you to release stress during stressful times? I it does do you have a favorite book that you return to for calm?

ETA:If you don’t see your reply right away don’t worry it just means I have to approve it the first time you post. After that you will be on the white list and your post should go up right away.

First, I would like to welcome everyone over to The Purple Booker (formerly Fire & Ice) and to say that I am honored (and a little nervous) I was allowed to take over Musing Monday and Teaser Tuesday. I hope I can do the same justice to the meme’s as Jenn has throughout the years. If anyone has any suggestions or anything they would like me to do to make things easier, or better please let me know. With that said, I truly hope everyone will continue to enjoy the meme’s we have all enjoyed. I know I have enjoyed Musing Monday and Teaser Tuesday as a participant or years. So with no more gilding of the Lily here we go.

I have used reading as a coping tool for stress for a long time. I always find it relaxing to settle in, pick up a book and delve into a new world, full of characters that I can love or hate and everything in the middle. I have found in recent years I have used books to help with stress even more than I had in the past. It really helps me to have a book with me in places like the Doctor’s waiting room where my anxiety can often crop up.

I don’t have a particular book most of the time. However, I have found that sometimes I do gravitate towards childhood favorites. This usually happens when there are huge levels of stress in life. We all have those once in a while right? Some of those favorites include, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Black Beauty and the Black Stallion books.

So how about you?

Please leave your comment: With either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your answer in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thank you so much!

Musing Monday 12/5/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random question: Do you visit your local library regularly? If so, what’s your earliest memory of visiting a library?

I used to go all the time, alas these days I do not go to the library as often as I used to. I have a lot of early memories at the library in Roseville, MN. My Mom always encouraged us to read so we had a weekly run for as long as I can remember. In the summer we usually made a fast night trip and one big weekend trip. I remember getting stacks and stacks of books and playing Oregon trail on the library computer. I always did a little jig when I could have two time slots on the computer to play. Silly I know, but I remember that. Then I would leave with a whole sack of books and I would read them all.

Musing Monday 11/28/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random question: If you were a character, which author would you trust with your life (to write your story)?

This is a tough one, honestly I can’t narrow it down to just one. I think I would say either Lauren Willig, J.R Ward, or Stephanie Laurens. Either way I will end up with a nice hunk who has a firm loyalty to his lady. In a Lauren Willig I could also have fun being my own spy type lady. While J.R Ward, well her world is a good deal more dangerous then my other two choices, but come on The Black Dagger Brotherhood, they are worth the danger.

Musing Monday 11/21/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random Question: Are there any particular worlds in books in which you’d like to live?

Now this is a very curious question and my first instinct is to shout a resounding yes there are! When I take a moment to think about it, I still want to say yes, but with a little worry to it. No world is perfect and that holds the same for books. I also tend to read a lot of books set in history or our world with some differences. I know I am waffling back and forth here again. So I will say yes and I will also say which world. I would like to live in Harry Dresden’s world. It is enough like our world that I feel I would be comfortable and not out of place (it IS current, modern and our world) and then there is the plus of Wizards! Most of the world doesn’t know about them of course and there are some big bads, but overall yes I think it would be a great deal of fun. I mean there is Thomas and Bob and toot toot and of course Harry and mouse! Yes I think that would be a fun world to live in.

Musing Monday 11/14/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random Question: How has your reading changed in the last 10 years?

Well, this is a very loaded question because 10 years is a long time and even with my “mind palace” I can’t draw it all up sometimes. Pardon the starting of this with a ramble, I will blame it on my lack of sleep lately (yay insomnia). I have always been a reader. You can ask my Mom especially in the summer when we went once a week to the library I loved checking out piles and piles of books. I would get everything from comics like Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield (reminds me, I need to do a read of them again soon) to big thick books like Trinity by Leon Uris. As I got older I read less as life became life, I also felt a bit un-tethered as to what I wanted to read for a long time.

Once I was diagnosed with Lymphoma and was not able to do as much activity wise as I wanted to I started reading a lot again. I expanded my genre’s and was happy to devour just about anything at all. I was reading so many books my friends and family razzed me a little bit about it, especially when I started this very blog. I wanted to keep track of how many books I was reading and doing reviews on my own blog seemed a good way to go about it. 2009 this blog started with a cheesy theme on blogspot. I eventually updated theme’s, then bought a domain and lastly made the migration to hosting my own site and using the WordPress plugin. A choice I will never regret.

Then I started to crochet and had to deal with a cross country move due to personal life problems. My reading has suffered some since then. I am still reading don’t get me wrong and as you can see I still do reviews, but not as much as I used to. I am struggling to find the balance between work, crochet, reading and blogging. I am sure I will find the right balance eventually, or I will swing back into a cycle of devouring book after book. Crochet has been the dominating thing in my life for the last several years. I don’t write to pen pals as much as I used to, I haven’t found new ones to replace ones that just stopped writing and I have not mastered the ability to read a hard copy book while crocheting. I really do hope in the future to strike a better balance between things. I miss reading as much as I used to but crochet has truly turned into my Zen place. I have often told people that to me crochet is like meditation is to other people, and with high stress levels the last few years I need it. I am very hard on myself when I don’t meet reading or review goals, but I am working on that.

So there you have a very long muse about my reading habits over the last 10 years. They have been up and they have been down and they have been all around. However, I always read. Reading is a passion and even if I am in a down period I still read because I love it. I enjoy living the many lives you can while reading a good book. I feel as long as I still enjoy it and manage some time for reading I am okay. The balance will eventually come.

I hope everyone enjoyed my little bit of rambling this Musing Monday.

Musing Monday 11/7/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random Question: Do you prefer fast-paced novels, or slow, descriptive novels?

I like both kinds of books really. However, in general lately I prefer a book that has a good steady pace. I don’t feel that description has to be sacrificed for a fast pace either, I think you can have both. Make me choose however I will chose something that moves on at a good steady pace over something that spends an entire chapter talking about a rock as an example.

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