As we’re halfway into the year, I’ve been thinking about how I’m progressing on my reading and blogging goals. Reading: In my New Year’s Resolution Post, I wrote about my reading goals for the year. At the end of June, I’d read 56 books, roughly half audiobooks. According to The StoryGraph, most of thee books…
This month is Nonfiction November, a celebration of all things nonfiction. I’ve read some fantastic nonfiction this year and I’m proud of myself for reading more nonfiction than I used to. I enjoy this event because I get so many good nonfiction recommendations for next year. Each week will be a topic hosted by a different blog. This…
In 2018, I signed up for a number of challenges but didn’t set many reading or blogging goals for myself. I said I wanted to learn about designing graphics for my blog, I wanted to join a book club, and I wanted to learn more about blogging in general. I also said this: In 2018…
This year I put more time into reading and blogging, and I feel good about that. I spent more time reading and commenting on the blogs I like the most. I read more diversely in terms of authors, countries, and genres. I read 89 books, compared to 71 last year. I reviewed 47, in addition…
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…
2014 was a good year for reading and blogging. It was also a good year for seeing family, for traveling, for getting the hang of being a student again (halfway through!) and for NOT working too hard. You’ll see below it was a good year for reading new authors and getting outside my usual genres. …
2013 was an interesting year. It was a year of health scares and hospitals. A year we lost our last grandparent and gained a tiny new member of the family. A year my sisters all became friends again. A year we went Down Under and I went back to school. A year the government shut…
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