Category Archives: reading challenges

Fictionophile Blog Update – First Half of 2022 #bookbloggers #bookblog

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Fictionophile

Yes folks, 2022 has reached the halfway mark. In an effort to keep organized and structure my reading, I’ve compiled this post to track my reading progress since January 1st, 2022 I have read 73 books so far this year … Continue reading →

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Fictionophile Blog Update – First Quarter of 2022

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Fictionophile

Yes folks, 2022 has reached the 1/4 mark. In an effort to keep organized and structure my reading, I’ve compiled this post to track my reading progress since January 1st. I have read 37 books so far this year and … Continue reading →

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March Again! It’s ‘Reading Ireland Month’ #readingirelandmonth22 #begorrathon22

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Fictionophile

Every year during March I like to participate in Cathy’s “Reading Ireland Month“. Reading Ireland Month (or The Begorrathon as it is affectionately known) will return for the sixth year between Tuesday 1 and Thursday 31 March 2022. If you … Continue reading →

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Bookbloggers Fiction Reading Challenge 2022 #ReadingChallenge2022 #ReadingChallenge

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Fictionophile

I am cutting down on the number of Reading Challenges I’m participating in 2022. However, I did create another Bookbloggers Fiction Reading Challenge which I am going to attempt along with my Goodreads Challenges. Only those… Here is this year’s … Continue reading →

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“White Oaks” by Jill Hand – Book Review

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Fictionophile

In a Greek Revival plantation mansion in Georgia, Blanton Toombs Trapnell is celebrating his ninetieth birthday. He is an abrasive and ornery old man. His three adult children come home to celebrate with him – all with a view to … Continue reading →

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“The Timekeeper’s Son” by Sara Baker – Book Review

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Fictionophile

Josh Lovejoy is a teenager who is also an aspiring filmmaker. A ‘good’ boy, an only son, he lives in a small town in Georgia. One sweltering summer night, he uncharacteristically shares some marijuana after a filming session. High, he … Continue reading →

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Fictionophile Blog Update – First Quarter of 2021

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Fictionophile

Yes folks, 2021 has reached the 1/4 mark. In an effort to keep organized and structure my reading, I’ve compiled this post to track my reading progress since January 1st. I have read 35 books so far this year and … Continue reading →

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“The Boatman’s Wife” by Noëlle Harrison – Book Review

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Fictionophile

Secrets. We all have them, yet some are more consequential than others. When young Lily Fitzgerald is widowed at the tender age of twenty-four, she discovers that her beloved husband has been harboring a serious secret indeed. 2017 – Lily … Continue reading →

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“Season of Second Chances” by Aimee Alexander – Book Review

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Fictionophile

Grace Sullivan left her small Irish village to go to university in Dublin. She wanted to follow in her beloved father’s footsteps and become a doctor. While in the big city she met and fell in love with Simon Willoughby, … Continue reading →

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“The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth21

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Fictionophile

An intense and grim story about three days in a Dublin maternity ward during the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918. Influenza derives from the Latin word influentia, meaning “influence of the stars. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people … Continue reading →

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