Thoughts on books to read in your spare time…
I read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell over a decade ago, before I kept any regular record on Goodreads. I picked it up for a reading challenge–the prompt was a book longer than one you’d usually read–and also because I had been intrigued by the reviews. Magic and fantasy are not typically my thing, but … Continue reading 20 Books of Summer: Piranesi
At the end of 2017, I realized that I have a serious problem: I own a lot of unread books. Usually I kick off January with some sort of TBR challenge, and 2018 is no different. This year, I am joining Roof Beam Reader’s Official 2018 TBR Pile Challenge. The rules are simple enough: in … Continue reading 2018: Facing the TBR
Happy New Year! It's hard to believe the holidays are already over, but I don't think many of us are sad to say goodbye to 2016. While 2016 may have not been the best year in more ways than I care to list, as I mentioned in my year-end review post, I had an unusually … Continue reading 2017: Looking Forward
As I mentioned in my Favorite Books of 2016 post, 2016 was a fantastic year in reading for me. Honestly, I can't remember a better year since maybe 2012. The better part of my reading year was filled with four- and five-star books, and not simply because I was being generous. At the same time, … Continue reading 2016: Looking Back
For years I’ve been saying that I need to keep better track of how I find books. I thought about this again when I picked up Scott Heim’s We Disappear and almost immediately wished I could offer a personal thank you to whoever recommended it. Scott is a freelance writer living in New York City. … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: We Disappear
I can’t remember how I came across Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. I think maybe I saw it on one of those “Recommended Reading” lists from someone like Gillian Flynn or Megan Abbott, which makes sense because stylistically this novel, the first in a series (hopefully a long one), sits … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
For today's Tuesday Top Ten, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, we are asked to share our 2015 resolutions, bookish, blogging, or otherwise. This year I feel like I am in a resolution rut, because my resolutions are pretty much the same this year as they were last year and the year before. Instead … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 2015 Resolutions
To start, I had this blog post mostly written and then I did some magic with the keyboard and the first draft disappeared. So it has been that kind of day/week/month/year. I am so ready to see 2012 out (Bye bye now. Please do hit yourself on the ass with the door on your way … Continue reading Challenged
This has been a strange year so far. Not only have I not had much time to post here, I have not had much time to read. Most days I get only about 20 minutes or so before bed, and that's only if I can keep my eyes open that long. I did manage to … Continue reading TSS: Small Island, Small World
The trouble with trying to talk about a novel weeks after one's finished the book is that one tends to forget a lot--then again, maybe that says more about the book than anything. Actually, if I were to go just on "feeling" alone, I would have to say I enjoyed The Postmistress, but I didn't … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: The Postmistress
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