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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
