• Book Tag

    The BookTube Spin: Resurrecting Long-Neglected Books

    The other day, BookTuber Rick MacDonnell posted a video announcing the BookTube Spin, which he adapted from The Classics Club Spin. The general idea behind this challenge is to pick up books that have been languishing, unread, on our bookshelves. I definitely have a scary large list of books I haven’t gotten to yet, many of which stare back at me from the bookshelf near my workspace. However, an even larger number of them sit in what I lovingly call “high density storage,” i.e., they’re in bankers boxes in the basement due to lack of space elsewhere in the house. The majority of the books I pulled together for this…

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    Book Tag

    Book Blog Newbie Tag

    Welcome to the Saint & Marigold blog! To get us started, I thought I would do the Book Blog Newbie Tag. I’m not completely sure where these questions came from (definitely not me), other than I think they came from BookTube originally, and were adapted for book blogs. But I hope this will give you a sense of who I am and what this blog will be! 1. Why did you start this blog? First of all, I may have a bit of a book addiction… Also, I was originally thinking I should start a blog about a specific topic, like green living or making art or something, but the…