Michelle's Musings

21 December 2021

Fellow book nerds END-OF-YEAR stats

Hello to you fellow readers.

I have created an end-of-year book stat sheet for you. This features your top 10 books of the year and your final reading stats.

If you didn't keep up with your reading stats and want to in 2022, don't worry, I will be posting tips and tricks soon. I have been keeping a book journal since 1996 and I have changed it many times and finally, I have the perfect stats book for me. More on that later....even if you aren't interested in stats, you might be interested in your top 10 books of 2021.

Download a copy of the stat sheet here.

20 December 2021

Review: Empowered Embroidery: Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present

Empowered Embroidery: Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present by Amy L. Frazer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Review: Without You

Without You by Anthony Rapp
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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19 December 2021

2022 Reading Challenge

Every year I try to do a challenge of my own to get me out of a reading box, but also to just have some fun trying to fit a book into categories. Over the last few years, I have made my own to distribute to friends. My challenges have just one requirement, that you do what you want with it. If you don't like a category, you mark it out and insert your own. If you don't like how I worded something, you reword it. If you wish to use one book for three categories, you do so. It is your challenge, your reading life, I am just there, I hope, for inspiration.

Don't forget to come back here each month in 2022 and get my MUST READ book of the month, book reviews, and maybe some free bookmarks you can print or download. My summer reading challenge will come out around April and will be full of fun reads for your all summertime adventures.

Thanks so much to you all that followed along with me in 2021. I hope you had a wonderful reading year and I am hoping you stick around for next year.

2022 Reading Challenge--download the challenge here

28 November 2021

The last book pick of 2021

This month's book was an easy pick for me. I read every single book that Gill Paul writes! She is creative, entertaining, and somehow picks topics that are so very interesting.

This book is called The Collector's Daughter and it is about Evelyn Herbert. Evelyn's father is an archeologist that is on a team desperately wants to find the tomb of Tutankhamun. On one fateful day, Evelyn happens to be in attendance on the hunt when they find it!! The tomb was erected to have curses put on anyone who disturbs the burial place. The team abandons all superstitions, each member takes a token home before they tell the public they have found the tomb. Fast forward through time and you can see how the "curse" affects each of the team members. The book takes place over the course of about 50 years, and they are 50 wild years.