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2018 Reading Challenge Winner

January 1, 2019

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 […]

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5 Steps To Plan For A Reading Challenge

December 23, 2018

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 […]

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Reading Challenge Check In

October 14, 2018

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 […]

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5 Engaging Audio Books With Multiple Narrators

March 5, 2018

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 […]

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5 Authors To Read For Black History Month

February 16, 2018

When I tackled my first Read Harder challenge a few years back, I realized my bookshelves and reading habits weren’t exactly what I’d call diverse. It wasn’t a choice I’d made, yet somehow the majority of authors I read were white Americans. That reading challenge, and the […]

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2018 Reading Challenge Categories

November 20, 2017

  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 […]

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Blast Out Of Your Comfort Zone With A Reading Challenge in 2018!

November 13, 2017

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. […]

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The 20 Books Of Summer Challenge Wrap Up

September 6, 2017

When I first started the 20 Books of Summer Challenge at the beginning of June, I knew I had my work cut out for me. It wasn’t the number of books I was concerned about, but the challenge of reading books from a pre-selected list. […]

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Do You Judge a Book by its Cover? Jane Eyre Edition

July 21, 2017

  I recently came home from a yard sale with a paperback copy of Jane Eyre. When I showed my husband, I said “I know you already have this but I really like this edition.” He didn’t question my madness at all and said “Sure, that […]

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20 Books of Summer Challenge: Update

July 14, 2017

We’re about half way through The 20 Books of Summer Challenge. Since reading 20 books between June 1st and September 5th isn’t a challenge in itself, I chose to push myself with a goal of reading a pre-selected stack of 20. I rarely choose books […]

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My mission is to get you out of your reading comfort zone! I can recommend the “right” books for whatever you're facing in life. I weed out the overhyped trendy titles. By sharing my experiences, I will lead you to a richer reading life. As an Amazon Influencer, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Dark Matter
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Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
What if you were able to go back in life and take the path not taken? It's a fascinating concept. It took a little while to get into, and I got bogged down by the heavy science in the middle but otherwise this is a pretty good book. It's...
The Silent Wife
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The Silent Wife
by A. S. A. Harrison
This is a thriller that unravels gradually. The twists aren't sharp but they are there. Every single character is unlikable, their behavior deplorable, but I couldn't help rooting for them at times. I went back and forth between the audi...
A Separation
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A Separation
by Katie Kitamura
Three and a half stars. This book wasn't what I expected from reading the dust jacket, it's not an intense thriller. There is a mystery gradually unfolding, which we learn about from the first person narration of a wife who reluctantly a...
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
by Elizabeth Vargas
Three and a half stars. I was not familiar with Elizabeth Vargas prior to reading this, but I admire her greatly now. This is a brutally honesty memoir, written with grace and good intentions. The writing is a bit superficial at times, I...
Into the Water
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Into the Water
by Paula Hawkins
I pushed myself through this book because I thought it *had* to get better. The last 25 pages were the best part because I got resolution of open issues, but otherwise reading this was a waste of time. The story was sloooow and felt supe...

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