Goodreads…

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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while talking with someone about the 100 books I read in 2025 (yay me), I discovered there were apps out there to track your reading… who knew🤪…

my method had been to take a photo of the book when I finished it and add it to a Books Read album on my phone… this worked well until I dumped my photos, lol… then I would record the count in a new album and continue adding photos of books as I went along…

I am trying one called Goodreads… this one has many options… you can join groups, accept challenges and review books you’ve read… all I want is a place to record what I’ve read…

so, we will see how it goes…

100…

30 Tuesday Dec 2025

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today, I finished my hundredth book of 2025…

I am very happy… I would have done better except for one book which I didn’t like, so kept on putting reading off, lol… but I did finish it…

so many of the books were enjoyed in the garden over the spring, summer, and fall;-)…

I need to work on putting a book aside, without finishing it, if I don’t like it, lol…

naked…

28 Friday Nov 2025

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the book stair library has been moved into the den in anticipation of trees and advent boxes…

I will just have to remember where they are when I finish my current book, lol…

right now the stairs look a bit naked…

releases…

10 Monday Nov 2025

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a friend dropped by for a visit on Saturday morning and brought me a few books…

a bit later my housemate and I went to Globosapiens to pick up some additional books… this time I chose some new releases as well as some of the authors I usually read…

the Halloween decorations had filled up most of the stairs as there were very few books left to read…

I took this (⬆️) photo on November 1st before the decorations came down…

now, the stair library is booming once again;-)… woohoo… I haven’t been enjoying the current read, so may just put that one aside and start on one of these;-)…

compare…

15 Monday Sep 2025

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been working on my list of needed JD Robb books…

my daughter found a bunch in a used bookstore on a walk in Ottawa…

that meant I had to find, and compare, my list with the titles she sent me… found the list, phew, and sent her four that I could use…

this morning my housemate helped me double check the books on the shelf with the list, and I forwarded that list to my daughter… she found another four…

so, now that the comparison has taken place, it appears that I only need ten to complete my collection;-)…

woohoo…

maintenance…

02 Saturday Aug 2025

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Wednesday was such a lovely day…

started the morning with Hilda the Gardener, who arrived to do some maintenance in the garden… I’ve been thinking of the change that she has made to the space over the years;-)…

it always feels so fresh and tidy after her time here…

while she was working away, I picked beans and peas, and spotted some cucumbers starting, yay…

then a friend stopped by with a bag of books for me and I had a bag for her as well;-)…

we hadn’t seen one another for ages and had a great catch-up…

after they both left, I read and relaxed in this lovely space…

nineteen…

21 Wednesday May 2025

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it was mainly overcast and rainy last Thursday, so I spent most of the day inside…

being as the weather was not so great, I decided to work on a project that has been on the list for a while, lol…

first I printed out a list of JD Robb books that I found online…

next I removed all of the books I have and set them on my desk…

I cut some coloured paper to use as markers and compared the list with my books and inserted a sheet of paper where the missing books belonged… I also checked off which books were still needed…

the books went back onto the shelf and I then prepared a spreadsheet listing the whole series and marking which books I still need to complete my set…

happy to get the project completed…

now to send the list off to a friend and Globosapiens bookstore to see how many more we can find;-)…

once I find the remainder, there will need to be some reorganizing of the shelves, as I still need around nineteen, lol…

square…

03 Thursday Apr 2025

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started April by changing up the living room table…

this time I moved all the crystals to one square, filled a second square with shells… the third square included birds and critters… the final square with some of my favourite books…