Posts from the ‘Challenges’ category

Review: Dopesick by Beth Macy

This was one of those books that’s a tough read, but an important subject we should know more about. And Macy does a nice job of…

Review: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

I really appreciated this memoir by Nicole Chung about her adoption and the search for her birth family. It was particularly interesting to read about her…

My 20 Books of Summer

Twenty Books of Summer is back! It will run from June 3 through August, and basically the challenge is to make a list of 20 books and…

Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

It’s hard to say this book was fun, since it involved more violently ill characters than any other book I can think of… but it’s a…

Re-Reading Childhood Favorites: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

You might not expect Heidi to be one of my childhood favorites, but it is. I tended to love books that were grittier and darker. I…

Review: The Library Book by Susan Orlean

I can’t say this is a perfect book, but it’s one of my favorites of the year, and it’s a book I’ll recommend to a lot…

Read Harder 2019: A Quarterly Challenge Update

This year I want to post at least a quarterly update on the challenges I’m working on. Each quarter I’ll focus on a different challenge. I’m…

Review: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

I love David Mitchell – I love how every book by him is more of an experience than just a read. This book felt like a…

2019 Reading Challenges

This year I’m going to avoid signing up for any new challenges, but will continue with the ones I enjoyed most last year. The TBR Pile…

Best Books of the Year and Why I Read Them

Merry Christmas readers! This month I took a look at my favorite books of the year, and I asked myself the question: why did I read…

Review: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

This book wrecked me – and I mean that in a good way. I finished this book in two days, and it was so intense I…