May is here, and it means that Zoladdiction 2024 is coming to the end. I don’t know how the others had managed – April has been so crazily hectic for me, I couldn’t even check your blogs, let alone read all your Zola posts – so sorry! On my part, I have read and reviewed
two short stories, and barely managed to finish the audiobook
review of Germinal (a 3rd re-read) in time. All in all, I’m pretty relieved that I completed what I had planned to read, but it got me re-thinking about the future of Zoladdiction. I have hosted this event for eleven years now, but it begins to feel like a burden. My responsibility at work is increasing, following the company’s growth, and April happens to be the busiest month of the year with the annual tax report, and what not. That being said, I don’t know whether I’m going to host Zoladdiction next year or not. Let’s just see then!
I would like to thank all of you who had participated in Zoladdiction 2024, and wish you had a good time! Especially Brona, whose chronological read of Rougon-Macquart brings her to
A Love Story (Une Page d'Amour); Nancy, who had read the same book (
Une Page d'Amour); and Mallika, who had read the same short story I've reviewed earlier:
Captain Burle - thanks to all your reviews! If you have reviewed or posted anything Zola but not mentioned here, please leave link to your post on the comment below, I’ll add them to this post, and will try to make time to read them!
Fanda, thanks for you unflatering devotion to Zola! Take time to enjoy your reading and work...leaving room for a Zola moment now and then. Anything I read by this author I'll link it to you via 'X'!
ReplyDeleteNancy, I thank you too for your continuous support to Zoladdiction. Yes, I intend to keep reading Zola - maybe more of his short stories.
DeleteThank you for hosting, Fanda. It is thanks to you that I finally started reading Zola last year and look forward to more in the time to come. Wish I could have read a novel as originally planned but time got the better of me. I'll be catching up with your and other participants' posts soon.
ReplyDeleteThank you for at least reading a short story for Zoladdiction, Mallika. Will be catching up with yours too... :)
DeleteI did read some Zola in high school but this time of year is too busy for me to participate. I did enjoy reading the reviews, however.
ReplyDeleteGlad our reviews entertained you, Constance! ;)
DeleteI'm glad I read my Zola and reviewed it by the end of the month before we moved, as I'm only just catching up on stuff from three weeks ago now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting once again - I love Zoladdiction month a lot :-)