Happy Birthday, Arielle!!

Thank you, Book Club Heads, for another wonderful Harry Potter Book Festival! I really enjoyed learning about alternative methods of reading during this activity!

I have an interesting story about reading an abridged edition of a book. In my Spanish class my junior year of high school we read Don Quixote de la Mancha in Spanish and it was abridged though none of us knew it. Because of the fact that it was in Spanish, I didn't even realize it until afterwards ...

I also agree that there are certainly situations in which audiobooks are very handy and that a narrator can make or break if a person gets into an audiobook. I really like what Kendra and Vanessa said about recording your own audio books for loved ones and think that receiving something like that fr...

While I think that there are some very talented voices out there telling us our favorite stories, I agree with Maxim that audio books don't quite recreate the magic of communal storytelling. When I was in fifth grade, one of the fifth grade teachers was known for his love of storytelling and when we...

Happy Birthday, Zenix!! I hope it's wonderful and full of fun and cake!

Happy Birthday, Hannah! Hope you had a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday, Alexander! I hope you have a fantastic day!

I also love using Goodreads to track my reading, but like Scarlet agree that having a large number of books on my to read shelf is overwhelming. I especially love that there are book giveaways there, and while I haven't won anything yet I'm determined to keep trying. A lot of users also make lists o...

Thank you to the organizers for a wonderful activity and the chance to get to work with some of my fellow HOLers!

Congratulations to all who participated and many thanks to Arielle, Cody, and Katelin!

I usually really enjoy reading series, but lately I've been getting more and more interested in reading stand-alone books as well. I will admit that I don't reread as much as I'd like to, and there are definitely a few books that I've loved enough to reread so there's little reason to not return to ...

How do you all find new books to read? Usually I just go to libraries and pick up whatever stands out to me, but lately I've been trying to keep up with a few book awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. I've got at least half of the books from the longlist of...

Happy Birthday, Asky! I hope it's a wonderful day!

I recently finished up Heating and Cooling , a book of micro memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly, the current poet laureate of Mississippi, and I thought it was incredibly interesting how she managed to tell complete stories in so little words. While some stories lasted a couple pages, others lasted less t...

I also started watching more anime during high school and I've definitely accumulated a few favorites, though I still haven't watched many of the classics which I plan on rectifying soon. Angel Beats! takes place in the afterlife and it was pretty interesting though somewhat rushed towards the end o...

I agree that Uagadou sounds amazing and I'd love to visit there. I think it's incredibly important to know as much about magic as possible, whether or not it is the same as what I utilize, and it would be amazing to go to the place where much magic originated. I'd also really love to visit Mahoutoko...

I also don't know about a specific soundtrack, but a friend of mine introduced me to the work of Jóhann Jóhannsson and I've been listening to his music so much lately that he was my number one artist on Spotify in 2017. He composed the music for the film The Theory of Everything which is absolutely ...

I typically like to wait until an entire season of a show is out so that I can watch all of the episodes in a short time. However, I don't usually binge watch since I don't have a lot of large blocks of time, so I'll watch a couple episodes at a time like Amy over the course of a week or two. I thin...

Happy Birthday, Arianna! Hope you have a wonderful day!

I'd like to find a team!

EDIT: Team found!