Happy New Year, everyone! Today I’m posting my top reads in 2015. I narrowed it down to 12, in no specific order: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The House of…
Thanks to The Perpetual Page Turner for this end-of-2015 survey! It’s long, so I’ve cut out some of the questions (in case you’re confused by the numbering). Number of Books Read: 80 (reviewed: 64) Genre You Read The Most: contemporary or near-contemporary fiction. The rest of my reading is pretty spread out across fantasy, historical…
In November I read a lot of great books, I traveled to Phoenix to visit my family, and submitted my research application for my thesis. And now it’s time for all the holiday madness! To celebrate, I’m going to give away one book a week in the month of December. I’ll post about it soon…
Happy Thanksgiving! It’s gift-giving season, so I’m thinking about the books I want to put on my wish list. In November I saw a number of best of 2015 lists, and I’ve only read a few of the books on these lists. So I’m curious which of these books, if you read them, were worth…
Happy November readers! In October, I began my final graduate class, on early literacy, one of my favorite subjects. November will be a busy, busy month, as I’m visiting family in Arizona and submitting my thesis proposal to our review board. Then in December I have a final presentation to write and our annual holiday…
It’s October, time for fall and pumpkins and Halloween. Personally I’m sad about packing up my sandals and waking up in the dark, but the seasons will change whether I want them to or not. September was a busy month, with two work trips and a sick cat at home (she’s much better though). And…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, is our Fall To-Be-Read (TBR) List. I thought about not doing a Fall TBR List because I’ve had list burn-out lately, but there are two events this fall I want to participate in, so I built my list around those events. Readers Imbibing…
The New York Times Book Review does a weekly Q&A with writers called By the Book, and last week author/actress/producer Mindy Kaling was interviewed. I’m already a big fan of Mindy Kaling, from her book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? to her work on The Office and The Mindy Project. She’s smart and funny…
For August, I’m thinking about the things I’ll miss most about summer, like reading in the sun, eating dinner and drinking wine on our deck, and working in my garden. My favorite summer find is my water bottle that holds fresh fruit and herbs. I’m still experimenting, but mint, strawberries, and cucumbers seem to work…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is about authors you always buy when they release a new book. I can’t say I really auto-buy anything, since I don’t have time to read half of what I want to. But these are the authors I’ll always add to my shopping…
In my five years of blogging, writing blog posts and book reviews have only made me like reading more. But I hear a lot about bloggers who get burned out on writing reviews and even on reading itself. This summer, I’ve struggled with this (seemingly simple) question: what do I want to read? Like most…
It seems like all of my favorite authors are coming out with something new this fall. I have review copies of the new books by Atwood, Mitchell, and Allende from NetGalley, so I’ve got lots of reading to do! Plus we get a final Tiffany Aching book from Terry Pratchett, and new series from Deanna…
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