This week, I’m combining Top Ten Tuesday (this week’s topic: top ten books on my winter TBR) with Nonfiction November’s New to My TBR. First, here are the nonfiction books I meant to read this month, and still plan to read: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates What Happened by Hillary Clinton…
This week’s Nonfiction November topic (hosted by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness) is to share 3 or more books on a single topic that we recommend, or books we want to know more about. This year, the topic I’ve read the most about relates to the current state of our country politically. I can recommend quite a…
Happy Halloween, readers! Hope you’re doing something fun tonight, whether it’s trick-or-treating with the kids or engaging in more adult festivities. No such fun for me- I’ll be working late and recovering from the nasty cold I picked up from the husband last weekend. Wah wah…. In October we thought a lot about the devastating…
It seems like I just made my fall TBR list, and here we are, mid-October with the year fading fast. I began October thinking “maybe I’ll just read whatever I want for the rest of the year.” Which is a nice idea, only I’ve requested too many ARCs and I’ve fallen behind on reviews. When…
Dr. Seuss has always been a hero of mine. I’ve been a huge Seuss fan since the day I could read, and probably earlier. I have a portrait of the man, several biographies, and a lithograph of the Lorax graces my walls. When I was in the hospital at fourteen my family brought me a…
I can’t complain about September; we had a great time traveling around Spain and visiting our friends in London. I learned a ton about Spanish history and current political events, and I’ve been fascinated by the push for independence in Catalonia and the horrible way the country handled yesterday’s referendum. It was a difficult month…
On our trip to London and Spain we saw a lot of cool things, especially in the areas of art, architecture, history, and wine. But here’s the bookish side of our travels: Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is clearly Spain’s favorite literary son; I lost count of the times I saw a sculpture…
Hello readers! I just got back from Spain a few days ago, and I can’t wait to tell you more about our trip. But as always when I travel, I’m full of ideas and no energy/time to actually write about them. So it’s a good thing it’s Tuesday! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, hosted by…
August was a busy month, mostly spent planning for our trip to Spain. We are super-excited to finally be off on our adventure to London, Barcelona, Granada, Seville, and Madrid. But August was also a really upsetting month, due to the horrible deaths in Charlottesville and Barcelona and finishing up with the flooding in Texas.…
I’ve seen this meme going around (started by Lost in a Story) as a way to edit a growing to-be-read list. You take your Goodreads TBR list, sort by ascending date added, and look at the oldest 5-10 items on your list. If I haven’t read them by now, am I likely to? Why or why not? I…
This month I torpedoed my 20 Books of Summer list by signing up for a pile of NetGalleys and ARCs. I’m not saying I regret those reads, which were quite good; something just made me go “off-list” this month. Otherwise, my July was all about my sister – I got to visit her in Wisconsin…
Those of you who write book reviews, and who care about reading fiction with well-developed female characters, may find this article in Literary Hub as fascinating as I did. Science fiction author Daniel Price writes about the response his book The Flight of the Silvers received on Goodreads. I’d braced myself for the worst with…
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