HELLO AUGUST
MONTHLY READING THEME
A YEAR OF BRONTE
LITTLE HOUSE SERIES BUDDY RE-READ
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
THEMES • BUDDY READS • SLOW READS
MY AUGUST BLOG THEME IS DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
(reading books with dogs in them)
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A Year of Brontë
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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Year-Long Slow Read
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Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Buddy Re-Read
Liis, from Cover to Cover, and I have started our buddy read of Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë, for my A Year of Brontë theme. Neither of us have read Anne's books before.
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Jolene and I started our buddy re-read yesterday. This will also count towards my Dog Days of Summer reading because of the Ingalls' dog Jack.
It's been so hot neither Jolene nor I made our chosen recipes from the Little House on the Prairie story, yet. She is going to make cornbread and heart-shaped cakes. I'm going to make cornbread and bean porridge. I made cornbread for the Little House in the Big Woods recipes, along with johnny cakes, but the cornbread was eaten before I had the chance to take photos. Ha ha.
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I also pinkie swear AGAIN that my Farmer Boy post will be published next week. I feel terrible. I'm having trouble paring it down to a manageable length!
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Is anyone watching the new Netflix Little House on the Prairie series? Do you like it?
This is the ninth year for Dog Days of Summer. For the first five years I had an international giveaway, a tag post, and a bingo card. I also published two or three dog related posts other than the challenges posts. After Amazon closed it's international website and I couldn't send book prizes any longer, and then sending Amazon gift cards to other countries became obsolete, I started sending custom bookmarks from Annemieke's (A Dance with Books) Etsy shop until she closed the shop. The sixth year I donated twenty dollars to the giveaway winner's animal rescue of choice. The last two years I have donated five dollars for every book participants read up to twenty dollars. This year I am just going to donate twenty and forgo any formalities. Next year for the DDOS ten year anniversary I will do a separate international giveaway of things I can send in a regular envelope and a Barnes and Noble gift card for the US participants.
TRAVEL MEMOIR
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Steinbeck is hot on Bookstagram right now amongst the classic and Literary Fiction crowd, so this will be my second DDOS title.
Will you be reading a book with a dog in it for August?
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