Yearly Remembrance - Heath Ledger #gonetoosoon

April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008

Another year has passed with you gone from this earth. It's evident I'm not the only one who misses you.

“I'm standing here on the shoulders of my favorite actor, Heath Ledger, so, thank you.”
Joaquin Phoenix, in his acceptance speech for Best Actor Screen Actor's Guild award for Joker.

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#CatThursday - #Cat Sleeping Positions (2)

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Yearly Remembrance - David Bowie #Starman

David Bowie - 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016

Gone, but never forgotten.

"The Man Who Sold The World"

We passed upon the stair,

We spoke of was and when

Although I wasn't there,

He said I was his friend

Which came as some surprise

I spoke into his eyes

I thought you died alone,

A long-long time ago

Oh, no, not me

I never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand,

And made my way back home

I searched for form and land,

For years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazely stare

At all the millions here

We must have died alone,

A long-long time ago

Who knows? Not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

Who knows? Not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

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#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (90) Germaine Greer

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The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), pictured with a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.

Germaine Greer (b. January 29, 1939) is an Australian born writer, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.

Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism. She is also the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991), and most recently Shakespeare's Wife (2007). (Goodreads)

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Goodbye, 2019 (Favorite reads) Hello, 2020 (First Book of the Year, Reading Challenges)

Another year, and decade, in the books. I always look forward to a new year because it means new beginnings, and another chance to accomplish what we might not have in the past year. I'm trying to learn not to beat myself up when I don't reach a goal, and to try to remember that we are all works in progress.

I'm proud of myself with my reading last year, even if I once again did not meet my Goodreads reading challenge goal of 75 books. Take a look at the graphic though. I read 47. That's almost a book a week AND I read 16 more books than in 2018. If I can read 16 books more in 2020, that will put me even closer to my goal of 75. Who knows...I might even hit 75. Never say never.

Top 11 reads in 2020, in no particular order:

Joy in the Morning, Betty Smith
The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Good Omens, Gaiman and Pratchett
Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris
The Dark Game, Jonathan Janz
Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The First Mistake, Sandie Jones
Floating Staircase, Ronald Malfi
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King

First Book of the Year 2020

Though I'm actually reading several for various read-alongs, book groups, Classics Club Spin, my official book of the year is Stephen King's The Outsider. I'm already almost halfway through (trying to finish before the series this Sunday on HBO) and it is VERY good. Probably one of King's best.

2020 Reading Challenges

Here's a quick rundown of the reading challenges I'm participating in this year (four of them are hosted by me at Gather Together and Read). You can see the full details of all challenges, and what I'm reading for them on my 2020 Reading Challenges page (tab in the menu).

I really did not make any real resolutions this year. What I did was make a promise to myself to work on my novel, and get it written, in 2020. I'll probably post updates from time to time on my writing blog. Go here if you would like to subscribe and receive my updates. 

Happy New Year!

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#CatThursday - Happy New Year! #cats

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#CatThursday - #Christmas Week Four #cats

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I laughed way too hard at the last one. 😂😂😂

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The Classics Club Spin (22) #ccspin

The Lucky Spin Number came up as 13. My book is The Virginia Woolf Reader. I have to say...I'm pleased!

I'm down to the wire...it's 5:40 am my time, but I figure if I get this in before CC Club posts the spin number, I'm good. On another note...trying again with this.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
2. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
3. The Writing of Fiction, Edith Wharton
4. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
5. Escaping into the Open, Elizabeth Berg
6. Roderick Hudson, Henry James
7. On Writers and Writing, John Gardner
8. The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp
9. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
10. Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin
11. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
12. Emma, Jane Austen
13. The Virginia Woolf Reader
14. Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
15. The Forest for the Trees, Betsy Lerner
16. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
17. The Legends of Parsifal, Mary Hanford Ford
18. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
19. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
20. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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#CatThursday - #Christmas Week Three #cats

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Since you won't be hearing from me until next Thursday, I wanted to take a moment to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Stay safe and enjoy time with family and friends. Even though Christmas will be over, next week I will continue with the 4th and final Cat Thursday Christmas post.

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#CatThursday - #Christmas Week Two, featuring Alice and Arya #cats

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I shared pics of the girls on Facebook and Instagram, but in case you missed them...Alice and Arya in their holiday finery (in other words, Christmas collars).

Now for some Christmas funnies...

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