January was a great month for reading! Of course that’s because it was a lousy month for other things, between the wintry weather and getting sick. But at least my reading year is off to a great start. Here’s what I read in January: My favorite reads: My favorite has to be Our Missing Hearts, which…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about authors we discovered in 2022. By my count, I read 54 new authors in 2022. Here are some of my favorites. There were a few others I thought about including on this list: Gabrielle Union, Susan Cain, Clare Chambers, Katherine Center, Jesse…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about our bookish goals for 2023. I wrote about this already in this end of year post, so this will be more of a summary. 2022 was a stressful year, and my initial impulse for 2023 was to make things easy and not…
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is our top books we read in 2022. I already wrote about my top 2022 releases and my favorite audiobooks. These are my favorite books that I read in 2022. Those are my favorite books of 2022! What were some of your favorites?
Instead of a December wrap-up, this is a look at the year as a whole. I was fortunate to have some time off from work this week, so it’s been a perfect time to reflect and to think about my goals for 2023. More on that to come in January! 2022 in my personal life:…
I can’t remember a year where I’ve read so few of the books that are being touted on the Best of the Year Lists (see, for example, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, and Time). This year I read 34 books published in 2022, which is similar to how I read last year,…
I read this book for the Gaia Nature Reading challenge, and it was both fascinating and timely. Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction, writes about how science is being used to address some of our biggest environmental concerns, such as invasive species, carbon emissions, and global warming (at the same time, recognizing…
Wishing you all a very happy and safe holiday season! In 2022, at least half of my reading was by audiobook (occasionally I combined audio and print versions). I generally listen to audiobooks while walking, doing household chores, and driving. My dad lives an hour’s drive away, which lends itself to a good audiobook, provided…
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about our Winter TBR list. I decided to spin this a little differently, instead thinking about my TBR for 2023. I’ve organized this by a few categories. First, there’s all the books released in 2022 that I didn’t get to. A lot of these…
Here we are in the last month of 2022 – and I’ll be okay seeing this year go by. November was a busy month, with two visits to see family, plus Thanksgiving. This is always a busy time at work because we have to prepare for people taking lots of time off in December, so…
Nonfiction November always closes with a look at what we’ve added to our TBR lists this month. I always get a lot of great recommendations from these discussions. This week is hosted by Jaymi @ The OC Bookgirl. It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be…
This week’s Nonfiction November topic is book pairings, which can be nonfiction books on a particular topic paired with fiction, or with other types of media. Thanks to What’s Nonfiction for hosting this week’s topic. Unintentionally, one of the common themes in my 2022 nonfiction reading was activism. I’m not an activist myself. Though I vote…
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