2019 Challenges: the Halfway Mark
We’re halfway into the year, so it’s time for a quarterly report-out on challenges. You can see current progress on all my challenges here. For the…
My June Reading Wrap-up
June was a busy month — I saw my niece graduate high school, I went to Harry Potter World in Orlando, I joined a new book…
Reading the 2019 Women’s Prize Longlist
Every year I read as much of the Women’s Prize longlist as I can. Not for any challenge, but just because it’s a great source of…
Review: Dopesick by Beth Macy
This was one of those books that’s a tough read, but an important subject we should know more about. And Macy does a nice job of…
Review: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
I really appreciated this memoir by Nicole Chung about her adoption and the search for her birth family. It was particularly interesting to read about her…
Readers, Do You Audiobook?
Last month I listened to my first audiobook. Well, not exactly… there was that road trip many years ago where my husband and I listened to…
My 20 Books of Summer
Twenty Books of Summer is back! It will run from June 3 through August, and basically the challenge is to make a list of 20 books and…
My May Reading Wrap-up
May was a mostly good month and a very good reading month. I love summer, and soon I’ll be posting my 20 Books of Summer List, one of my…
Top Books Published in the Last Ten Years
I love this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, which asks you to pick the best book published in each of the last ten years. Here’s my list…
Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
It’s hard to say this book was fun, since it involved more violently ill characters than any other book I can think of… but it’s a…
Reading the Hugo Nominees
This year my husband signed up to vote in the Hugo Awards, and together we’re reading as many of the nominees as possible. Voting runs from…
On The Come Up and The Poet X: a Double Review
These books share a lot of similarities and both were fantastic, so I’m reviewing them together. Both are about teenagers dealing with racial identity, religion, friendship,…
