Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
There are favorite books and then there are Lifetime Favorite Books. I know them when I read them. I almost crave them. I mourn when I have to send them back to the library, and then I remember that someone…
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
Freedom Soup written by Tami Charles and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcantara was the first kids book I've read in a few years that wasn't read to a child. And while I didn't pick this up on a whim (I'm using…
2019 Favorites!
These book are my favorite for various reasons and are in no particular order. They brought me so much joy and I wanted to share why. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach My Time Among the…
2019 Reading Challenge Summary
Total books read: 48 The Trees in My Forest by Bernd HeinrichBrown: Poems by Kevin YoungThe Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlMiddlesex by Jeffery EugenidesThe Last Town on Earth by Thomas…
2020 Reading Challenge
Number of Books Sticking to 25. It's a good number and achievable (read in Maude Lebowski's voice). Gender Equal spit of women/men (or I'll go off the rails again and read more books by women like I did last year)…
Reading Formats
I was a reader long before e-readers existed. I've had strong opinions about them and I've changed my tune—a little anyway. For a few years I was fully anti-e-reader. How could I even enjoy losing myself in a book if…
Binge-reading or Savoring
Years ago I used to binge-read everything I could find at my local library by a beloved author. And then I'd run out of books. Can we talk about book-depression? It's dark, and you can't undo what lead you to…
2019 Reading Challenge
Note: This is a recap. I wrote about my reading goals AFTER the year was mostly over, but context is provided to show how/why I made the tweaks. Number of books The most basic of reading goals: number of books…
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