I can’t believe August is over already! I finished twenty books this month, which is tied with March as my biggest reading month so far this year. I managed to read eight non-fiction and twelve fiction, which is closer to the 50/50 goal I made […]
Here’s what I’ve been up this this week! Something that made me happy this week. I got an early birthday present in the mail from an artist friend. She’d shared a photo of this on her Facebook and I was interested, then forgot all about […]
When I started my book club, our first title was a new release (Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller) and I couldn’t find discussion questions online. On the author’s website, I found an email address given to contact the author. I expected to hear back from […]
The publication of Educated by Tara Westover has brought about a new interest in gritty family memoirs. The Glass Castle is the first book I recommend to readers who loved Educated and are looking for similar memoirs. (Personally I think TGC is much better!) If […]
Here’s what I’ve been up this this week! Something that made me happy this week. Using a wedding photo as a prop for a Instagram post. The challenge was to create a book stack including something old, new, borrowed, and blue. Something I read this […]
Hello and welcome to another blog tour post, for Our Own Worst Ideas by Vicky Skinner, which is officially published tomorrow. I’d like to thank Xpresso Book Tours for inviting me to participate! A blog tour is a virtual book tour, which are especially important in this time of […]
Hello and welcome to the first Friday of August! I can’t believe summer is going by so fast. You may have noticed I didn’t post one of these updates last week. That’s Partly because the first of the month being a Saturday screwed up my […]
Today I’m excited to give you an author with Caitlin Myer, whose memoir Wiving : A Memoir on Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy was published on July 28th I received an advanced copy of Wiving this spring from Mind Buck Media. The synopsis sounded interesting, […]
The first thing I ask people when I’m preparing to give a book recommendation is, “What do like to read? What genres?” I’m often met with blank stares. Either that or “I like to read anything,” which a reader may think is true about themselves […]
