Today, I’m grateful for Booking Through Thursday, both the original meme hosted by Deb and everyone who has been playing along for nearly a year now.
Whether you stop by every week, when the mood hits and time allows, or just once. I’m grateful to everyone for doing so. I’ve grown my blogging network, added to my TBR pile, and discovered books I otherwise wouldn’t have known about.
Thank you all for visiting and responding (even if it’s just in your head)!
Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
What’s your favorite (or preferred) point of view? First person? Third person, single narrator, multiple narrators? Does it depend on the genre and the book?
What’s your favorite (or preferred) point of view?
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P.S. The prompt is always open, and you don’t have to play on Thursday. Comment whenever you like!
I’ve written about my love for Little Free Library before. (Hey, it was even a Booking Through Thursday prompt.)
As I’ve mentioned, I’m a Little Free Library steward, and the library was one of our pandemic projects. You can read about how it started and how it’s going. Truth be told, we really do need to refresh the paint, something we didn’t manage to do this year.
One of the things I love is the people I get to meet. There are the steward meetups, of course, and book-packing sessions. But I also get to know the people who visit my library.
There’s the woman with her therapy dog who stops by for children’s books. Families who take walks with their children, each carrying a book to exchange.
And, just the other day, a woman stopped by to drop off a book—but not just any old book. She told me her sister, a librarian, had died over the summer. And as a librarian, her sister had amassed a huge collection of books. To honor her sister and the books, the woman has been seeking out Little Free Libraries so these books can find a new home.
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell now resides in my Little Free Library. I’m telling you, it classes up the place.
Going analog with the gratitude today.
Clearly, I’m not giving up longhand writing any time soon. So, I know this is a blog, and we’re all on the internet right now, but does anyone else out there love their analog writing tools?
I can’t tell you how many books I’ve acquired thanks to Story Bundle. (A lot; let’s just say a lot.)
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With Daylight Saving Time ending today (why is it so dark?), I decided to try something fun this month: posting something bookish or writing-related that I’m grateful for.
I’ve never been able to write a novel in a month; my brain doesn’t work that way. But I do like the idea of a November challenge. In fact, I may attempt two challenges: posting something bookish here each day and completing the revisions of The Marigold Miracle. (Ha, ha, at long last.)
Want to join me? Drop your challenge in the comments below, and we can cheer each other on.
Need some ideas? Here are a few I found:
For those who like to plan ahead, here are the November 2026 Booking Through Thursday prompts:
Want to suggest a prompt? Leave a comment or use the contact form to send it my way.
Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
Back in the day, my daughter rated scary books by the number of dogs needed on the bed while reading at night. Is it a two-dog read? A five-dog read? Since we only have two dogs, five-dog reads were saved for the light of day.
How about you? How scary is too scary? Does it depend on the number of dogs you have on hand?
How scary is too scary for you, on a scale from mildly spooky to the scariest in the horror genre?
Note: If it’s your first time here, your comment may end up in moderation. (My spam filter is aggressive.) I’ll be in after my writing sprints to set it free.
P.S. The prompt is always open, and you don’t have to play on Thursday. Comment whenever you like!
Is it me, or does it seem darker this year? I mean that literally, not metaphorically. Daylight Saving Time hasn’t even ended, but I don’t think the sun got the memo. I swear it wasn’t this dark last October.
Yes, I know. I live in Minnesota. That’s what happens in autumn. Of course, next Sunday, it will be full-on:
Most of the time, this is a fair trade for living in a place without poisonous snakes, scorpions, and large creepy-crawly bugs.
Still, it’s dark out there. I must fight the urge to head off to bed at 7:30 p.m. Y’all, I seriously keep toddler hours in the winter. Or maybe I’m part bear (it could be true) and, like other sensible creatures, prefer to hibernate.
During my brain break week, it occurred to me that I might be missing a mood brightener. For a variety of reasons, I closed my Spotify account earlier this year. I always feel like I should enjoy Spotify. But really? I find it hard to like. It’s busy and pushy and noisy.
But Apple’s been bugging me (I sense a trend here) to try Apple Music free for three months. So, I finally gave in. The interface isn’t nearly as busy (thank you), though I’m curious why there’s a separate app devoted solely to classical music.
In any case, I’d like to see if regular music can help brighten my winter. For today, though, I’m planning to indulge in some witchy vibes, shuffle some Stevie Nicks, and cook up something on the stove.
So, I’m scheduling all the Booking Through Thursday posts for December and got a little ahead of myself. If you saw a post come through for December 3rd, no, we haven’t time-traveled. It’s still October, thankfully.
Serves me right for clicking through a little too quickly.