March started out okay reading-wise and then I slipped into a slump. For the middle two+ weeks of the month, I didn’t care much about what I was reading. I DNF-ed two books I’d been looking forward to and generally didn’t connect with anything I […]
This month’s weekly recap post is different (and shorter!) As I mentioned last month, I’m not doing a long month in review post anymore. Instead, I’ve switched to posting weekly updates on the books I finish. My new end of the month post format is […]
Happy October! Here’s a run down of what I read last month. I finished thirteen books. Members Only by Sameer Pandya This novel is a timely read, a story about race and class that’s different from the most common ones we hear about in the […]
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 […]
July was one of my slower reading months of the year. I’ve been in an audio book funk lately, I started a few and then quit after an hour or less. Still, I read some great books this month and knocked out my first Jane […]
I finished nineteen books in May, the most of any month so far this year. That brings my total of books read to 83. According to GoodReads, I’m 34 books ahead of schedule to meet my goal of 120 this year. When I set that […]
A funny thing happened to me this month. My friend Maria talked me into starting a book series she loves, and I happened to start the first book at the same time her sister Monica did. We decided to chat after we finish each book. […]
February was a repeat of January for me reading-wise. I finished fifteen books again, and the fiction to non ratio was the exact same: ten fiction books and five non-fiction. Still not the 50/50 I’m hoping for overall this year, but now I know I […]
The first month of 2020 was was a good one for me! I finished fifteen books. Only five of those were non-fiction, which isn’t quite at my 50/50 goal I have for the new year. But it’s a little better than my 25% average in […]
December was a “slow” reading month for me. I only finished eleven books and a couple of them were duds. I felt I was ending my reading year on a low note. Although, I managed to end up with a total of 180 books finished […]
