Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, readers! 2016 wasn’t great for a few reasons, and for me it wasn’t a particularly good year in blogging and reading. For the first part of the year I blamed it on finishing my degree (not a bad excuse, really). And the second half of the year? Work got complicated … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
This week’s Top Ten topic, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is the top ten books read in 2015. I decided to narrow down my list by making it just the top ten books I read that were published in 2015. I read more new releases this year than I usually do. Furiously Happy … Continue reading
This week’s Top Ten topic, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is the top new-to-me authors I read in 2015. Chimamanda Ngozie Idichie: Americanah was an amazing, complex book that really made me think about race and nationality. Belinda Bauer: I read Rubbernecker and The Shut Eye and loved them both. I don’t read … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is the top ten books we’ve read so far this year. There were plenty of books I wanted to put on this list, but here, so far, are my favorites, in the order I read them. Americanah by Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda … Continue reading
