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 […]
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 […]
Before I get to the good stuff, I need to say a humongous thank you to everyone out there who has supported, encouraged, and contributed to my blog this year. When I first considered hosting a reading challenge, I was floored by the enthusiasm the […]
The first reading challenge I ever did was Book Riot’s first annual Read Harder Challenge in 2015. It sounded easy enough: read a book to fit into each of the 24 categories. Two books a month? Piece of cake. I approached my book shelves with […]
As the holiday season is gearing up, it can be easy to forget the calendar year is winding down. And as you get busy with seasonal prep and celebrations, reading time can be tough to find. I encourage you to stay aware, and don’t let […]
In a couple days, we’ll officially be halfway through October already. That gives us exactly two and a half months to accomplish all our 2018 goals. We’ve got this! Earlier this week, I dug my list of 2018 Goals from my Passion Planner […]
I’m not exactly sure how this happened, but here we are half way through 2018! The first third of the year was loaded with emotional challenges for me and a lot of family “stuff.” My memoir project isn’t progressing as I’d hoped, […]
The narrator can make or break an audio book.I’ve listened to books for 5-10 minutes and quit, simply because I couldn’t handle the thought of listening to this voice for many hours! One of the biggest places narrators go wrong is when speaking a voice […]
I was thrilled and flattered by the positive response I received to my post announcing my plans to host a 2018 Reading Challenge! I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported, encouraged, and contributed to my writing and this […]
Following the lead of my bookish pal Lea, I jumped into Book Riot‘s first annual Read Harder Challenge at the start of 2015. It sounded easy enough: read a book to fit into each of the 24 categories. Two books a month? Piece of cake. […]
