Initially, I did not have sky-high expectations for my reading life this year. While I still set a fairly high Goodreads challenge goal to finish 50 titles, I had no intention–not in the beginning, anyway–of trying to surpass last year’s impressive (for me, anyway) total of 65 books read. After all, I knew that pregnancy …
At the end of each year, I like to take a look back at all the posts I’ve published and do a fun little analysis of the results. I also like to do a separate round-up of my own personal favorite posts (because as experience has told me, the lists rarely overlap). Blogging regularly got …
This week after Christmas but before the New Year has always been a favorite of mine, though this year I’ll admit my enthusiasm has been dampened a bit by the fact that I still have some lingering nausea and fatigue at the end of my first trimester. Over the years, I’ve done a lot of …
As I mentioned in my post on my top 10 nonfiction reads for the year, I did an almost even 50/50 split of nonfiction and fiction this year, and narrowing it down to just ten of each was TOUGH. I tend to be much more critical of my fiction than my nonfiction, so it’s super …
Last night, I read my 40th book of the year (and stayed up waaaay past my bedtime, which means I’m feeling a bit like a member of the walking dead over here today). In looking back over my reading posts, I realized I hadn’t done any kind of major reading recap since April, so I’ve …
