Hello, all. At 10:00 this morning, January 23, Joni pulled 3 names, at random, from the group of those who commented on what they love about reading. The winners are Rich, Alan, and Claudia. They will each get the print, ebook, or audiobook of their choosing. Congrats.
If you want to read some great comments, go to my Facebook Book Sage page.
Guess what this post is about?...Give up? Yep, on this day, 10 years ago, I posted my 1st blog. It was called, not surprisingly, Introduction. How did this blog come about, you ask? Well, I will tell you. I was talking to my friend Steve in New York and complaining about how I want to spend more time in Book World. He said I should write a blog. And there you have it. Not that exciting an explanation, but true nonetheless.
Carole Bumpus' latest book, A SEPTEMBER to REMEMBER: SEARCHING for CULINARY PLEASURES at the ITALIAN TABLE, is her recounting of a month-long sojourn she and her husband, Winston, took to Italy in 1998. As you would expect, we learn a lot about the food they experienced in different parts of the country. But this book is much more than that. How so, you ask? Let me count the ways:
And, finally...I'm always curious as to how many new authors I read each year. I think there are less in 2020 than usual because of Covid. Instead of having a bunch of new authors coming to Recycle Bookstore, we Zoomed with a lot of authors that I have already been reading. Here it goes, and we'll see how it compares with previous years:
So here is another end-of-year list. This one is my 3.5s and up for the year ending (thankfully) 2020:
