Hello and welcome to the Third Annual While I Was Reading Challenge! All you have to do is read, no other participation is required. If you start and don’t finish, that’s okay. And if you want to interact with me and other readers, I’ve got […]
Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Either way, I hope your 2019 is off to a great start, especially your bookish life! I’m kinda stunned to report I finished 20 books in January (which I’m pretty confident is a personal best) and most of […]
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. […]
