I am FINALLY getting around to this one, which is hosted by Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks. I have seen Marianne do this one forever and keep saying I would start...and then forget because, well, I don't know.
It's really easy. Just find book titles which spell the month in question. Jana does post optional themes for the months, if you like having that guide. I will not be using them, as themes are usually harder to do with non-fiction.
September
S 
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P 
T 
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M 
B 
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All of these are from my TBR, so hopefully it is yet another way for me to focus on that.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
It doesn't matter whether you do themes or not. I am using them in order not to repeat myself all the time. LOL
ReplyDeleteAs always, you found some interesting books to list, a lot of British history, which I always like.
And I pubilshed my list in the meantime, as well.
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/spell-month-in-books-september.html
British history is something I hope to always have boatloads of!
DeleteSame here.
DeleteI did a DNA test recently and discovered I'm far more Swedish and much less German than I thought. AND I am a decent amount Irish and British (my biological father's side I guess), and I have been telling my mom for YEARS that I must have been a Scottish princess or an Irish chieftain's daughter in a past life because it was the only way to explain my obsession with those places (plus the town I grew up in was founded primarily by Irish immigrants, so I was inundated with all things Irish from a young age. Our high school mascot was literally the Rosemount Irish). But now I have some ancestory, so yay! There was an accompanying article with the headline "Discover your British and Irish heritage" with a picture of Newgrange and I was like, "Thanks, already been there", lol.
DeleteThat's totally interesting. I should do a DNA test but I bet my result will be 100% German.
DeleteIt's absolutely fascinating. I'm obsessed. I don't quite understand how I can be 20% Grerman and French, but then no French regions listed as where my ancestors came from. I have 19 historical matches, but I can only see them if I upgrade my account. I am weighing the pros and cons and trying to decide how badly I want to know if Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of them.
DeleteDo you also have some information about your German ancestors? Where did they come from?
DeleteMy country matches are Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland based on 23andMe. But my grandpa's sisters have traced relatives back to the 1200s to Austria, where our family seat/castle is.
DeleteMy genetic matches through 23andMe are traced to the Eastern German Plains (from the Harz Mountains to Poland and the Baltic), the Elbe-Weser Triangle, Northern Germany (mainly the southern portion of the Jutland Peninsula, and around the Elbe and Weser Rivers, which makes sense because of my matches to the Elbe/Weser Triangle), and the Northwestern German Plain (Lower Saxony & North Rhine Westphalia).
I'm from Lower Saxony but more the South-West.
DeleteI've wanted to go to Germany with my grandpa for ages, but he's not able to travel anymore. It absolutely guts me that we won't be able to go together. I want to traipse around the whole country and find all the neat little places that tourists miss. Even though it turns out I am not as German as I thought, my whole childhood I was raised thinking I was suuuuuuper German, and so I still want to visit.
DeleteWhat a shame. Maybe you can come with Eleanor one day and visit ME. :D
DeleteThat would be lovely!! It's kind of funny but not at all surprising how many friends I've made online over the years who live somewhere in Europe. Given my reading interests, it seems like destiny.
DeleteWhenever you're up to it, we're here.
DeleteAnd I think, whatever your preferences, the internet gives us many opportunities to find like-minded people. I love that.
It's really interesting when you think about it, people who I have been talking to online now for a few years, I can't even remember how I came across their blogs or if they found me first. It's like we've just always been here.
DeleteI think we found each other through CyberKitten.
DeleteThat's what I was thinking, or possibly Greg? I have not seen him around for ages now, which worries me. And MudPuddle, it has been a couple years, and he was having heart trouble. The downside of being online friends is that when stuff happens in the real world, there are no goodbyes. I don't like that part.
DeleteI know, I haven't heard from him for a while, either. I just checked and he had a post in July where he said that he was still alive.
DeleteI don't know MudPuddle, so it can't be him.
And I totally agree, I've heard from the death of some friends (even those that I knew in real life but they moved away) only ages afterwards. I must arrange something with my sons that they inform people when it's my turn.
I periodically check Greg's blog too. At some point he deleted a lot from Twitter because when I checked a month or so ago, his last tweet was rom 202. But we've talked so much in that time, and his responses to me are gone, too.
DeleteMudPuddle was another example of friends I have not heard from in a while, I didn't think you knew him because I'd never seen you in his comments.
That's a really good idea! I'll have to do that as well, though Eleanor is a bit young for the task. But I will have to show my mom how to post something, in case my time is shorter than anticipated.
I think your mum might be my age, so I guess she would be able to do it, however, Eleanor will soon be old enough, as well. Or you can leave instructions with a friend.
Delete2020*, ugh.
DeleteMom is definitely capable, she just hates technology. I thought about giving the info to Eleanor, but the preparation of 'just in case' is a little much for her anxiety so I wouldn't want to put that on her.
True. Though you could leave it in your will, perhaps.
DeleteThat's a really good idea. I'll ask my attorney to do that.
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