My last two posts were nearly two weeks apart, which is a first for me. My absence from this site might give you the impression I haven’t been writing or reading, when in fact the opposite is true – I’ve frantically been doing both. I […]
Back when I was working for a temp agency, I had a lengthy gig in warehouse doing mundane manual tasks over and over, all day every day. Being that I love routine, I didn’t mind it too much, although the bosses understood it could get […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen “best of 2018” lists everywhere. Books, albums, celebrities, you name it, there’s a list for it. I love this concept in theory, yet in reality it doesn’t work for me. At the end of my first blogging year, […]
December 2018 wrapped up my biggest reading year yet. I finished 158 books (and lost track of how many I DNF-ed!) I read a whopping 18 books last month (my second best of the year to May’s 19), including a couple that will be on […]
Happy New Year to all my readers and fellow bibliophiles! Today is the first day of another full year of reading, so what would be a better day to choose a winner from my 2018 Reading Challenge?! Throughout this past year, I offered participants the […]
One of the best parts of being a book blogger is receiving advanced copies of books. The only bummer is when I want to shout from the rooftops about how great a book is, but it hasn’t been published yet so my readers can’t get their […]
I haven’t had any booze since August 27th, and here’s what I’ve noticed: 1. I haven’t gone his long without a drink since I was 20. That means I haven’t truly known my body in her natural state my entire adult life. 2. I […]
“I want to read more” is one of the most common wishes I hear from my fellow book lovers. Though when I ask, “How many books do you generally finish in a month,” I’m often met with blank stares. For many of us avid readers, […]
I wrote a post about this at this time last year, in preparation for my First Annual While I Was Reading Challenge. I’m sharing it again now, with a different title and a few tweaks. With a little over a week left in 2018, many […]
I know you’re wondering, so I’ll say it: Yes, I have way more than five books on my wish list. In fact my “Want To Read” shelf on Goodreads account currently lists over 1300 titles! This constantly growing To Read list of mine is complicated. There […]
