I've been averaging 4-5 hours of broken sleep a night for the past two weeks. I don't know if the baby is going through a growth spurt or if I can just diagnose it as "baby wierdness" (a real and all-too-prevalent condition). No matter the reason, I have to be up with him when he's… Continue reading Audio-Crushes
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April Wrap-Up (With Baby Pics)
Reading and Writing Wrap Up Books read this month: Mouse and the Motorcycle series with the kiddos) Best reasons to stay inside and read this month: TERRIBLE WEATHER! I don't know where all of you are located, but we had snow all the way until the third week of April this month! Best of the month: The… Continue reading April Wrap-Up (With Baby Pics)
2017 Wrap Up
Reading Wrap-Up: Nonfiction and Memoir: Total read: 23 Best of the year: Hunger by Roxane Gay, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Graphic Novels/Memoirs: Total read: 9 Best of the year: John Lewis's March trilogy and Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani SciFi/Fantasy Reads: Total read: 35 Best of the… Continue reading 2017 Wrap Up
Bookish Resolutions for the New Year
I'll be doing my end of the year wrap-up in a few days, but wanted to pass along my most recent essay as you're setting your reading goals for the New Year: http://booksbywomen.org/bookish-resolutions-for-the-new-year/ I reached my goal of 125-- and surpassed it by almost another 30 (still a few days left in the year!) Would… Continue reading Bookish Resolutions for the New Year
November Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total books read: 10 Books read for 2017 so far: 144 Couldn't stop listening to the audiobook: Righteous by Joe Ide and a re-listen of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (and I haven't reread a book in years-- so glad I did.) Nonfiction topics explored: insect sex in Sex on Six Legs by Marlene Zuk and US history and… Continue reading November Wrap-Up
October Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 17* *(please note some of these were middle-grade and one of them was a graphic novel. Still, pretty happy about making to-read stack progress this month.) Scottish time-travel novels I finished reading that I have a lot of opinions on: 1 (if you want to hear them, I'd be more than happy… Continue reading October Wrap-Up
Southern-Set Book Pairings to Try
It's funny how books end up accidentally being in conversation with one another, just because you happened to pick them at the right time. Those accidental connections and conversations between texts are some of my favorite things about reading, so I have a few suggestions for book pairings if you're stuck in a reading rut.… Continue reading Southern-Set Book Pairings to Try
September Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 12 Audiobooks: 7 Books outside of my typical genres: 7 Best of the Month: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (forthcoming in 2018 and oh so worth putting on your to-read stack) and The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Also adored meeting Flavia de Luce in The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie. This month I tried… Continue reading September Wrap-Up
August Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 15 ARCs: 4 Audiobooks: 6 Books I read this Month that I can't stop recommending: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Best of the Month, which I also highly recommend: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin-(I can't believe this trilogy is over!) and And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini… Continue reading August Wrap-Up
Book Review: ARTEMIS by Andy Weir
The Review: I nearly bailed on this one-- but am glad I didn't. Like many readers, I was blown away by THE MARTIAN. With such a huge breakout book, a second book has high expectations. What this book isn't: like THE MARTIAN in theme or character What this book is: a rouge-ish caper for the… Continue reading Book Review: ARTEMIS by Andy Weir
