Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I love reading scary books, and I’m clearly not alone in that. What makes horror so attractive? People who study children’s literature say that scaring ourselves is a way to process what’s truly scary in life. It’s non-threatening because it’s not real. That makes…
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Top Ten Tuesday: My Fall TBR List
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is what’s on your Fall To Be Read List? On my list goes one classic, a few next-in-series, and a bunch of fall releases I’m excited about. I’m also including some of the children’s classics I’ll be reading in the next few months…
My August Reading Wrap Up: #20BooksofSummer
Hello readers! My August wrap-up is also my 20 Books of Summer Wrap-Up, and it will tell you something about me that I ended up at exactly 20 books at the end of the month (hint: I’m a bit on the goal-oriented side.) I’m always sad when summer ends. As a kid, summers meant long,…
Top Ten Books Set Outside the U.S.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is about books that are set outside the U.S. I try to read a lot of books that are set in other countries, although I don’t always succeed. For purposes of this list, I’m not including anything in the UK either, since a…
Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Facts About Me
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is ten facts about me. I so rarely get to write about myself on this blog. So, here are a few semi-interesting, semi-chronological things about me. I’m part Polish, Romanian, and Czech. My father was born in Czechoslovakia but had to leave as a…
My June Reading Wrap-Up
So much good reading this month! June was super busy, although you wouldn’t know it from my reading list. I spent three days at education conferences in Baltimore. We traveled to Wisconsin for my niece’s high school graduation, and then we had family visit us in DC last weekend. Oh, and I turned 45 this…
Top Ten Tuesday: Summer/Fall Book Releases
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is top ten new releases coming up this year. Here are some of the releases I’m looking forward to. I didn’t include League of Dragons by Naomi Novik, which releases today. Traumphysick by Monica Byrne (June 29) — The Girl in the…
Bout of Books Mid-Week Update
As it turns out, this hasn’t been the best week for a read-a-thon, but at least my commute gives me a lot of reading time. (And I finally turned in my thesis!) Here’s my progress so far: Company Town by Madeline Ashby – finished. This is a very cool book publishing this week by Tor. …
Bout of Books and Getting Back to the Blog
I’m almost done (!) with grad school and I’ve been thinking a lot about getting back to my blog. It may seem like I haven’t been away, but I know I have. I don’t do a lot of organized reading events, mainly because I read plenty without forcing myself, which seems to take the fun…
Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR List
Since I’m working on my thesis, I’ve given up on TBRs and challenges for the time being. So my spring TBR is an informal one. Basically, these are books that are already on my Kindle or on my library hold list. But already I’m itching to sink my teeth into weightier books, and when May…
Top Ten 2015 Releases I Didn’t Get to Read
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s topic is 2015 releases I wanted to read but didn’t. That’s an easy one for me because there are plenty of them. Here are 12. The Shore by Sara Taylor The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips A God in Ruins by…
Top Ten Books Published in 2015
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…
The Book Stop 