As any voracious reader will probably tell you, one of the BEST ways to find your next favorite book is to find someone with good taste (or at least, a similar reading taste to yours) and read whatever it is that they’re recommending. Indeed, I just realized that the last nine reads of mine (plus …
It’s no secret that I sometimes miss being in school–I miss the external push of deadlines and teachers, I miss the exposure to literature and views that I normally wouldn’t think of, and I miss the feeling that I know, for at least that one thing, that my progress can be measured, tracked, and assessed. …
Any reader will tell you that reading tastes vary widely–that there are as many tastes in books as there are colors in a paint store. But still, there are SOME books that MANY, even MOST people seem to like, or at least to widely recommend. This is largely how I’ve come across the majority of …
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 …
First off, I should clarify—I don’t have a problem finishing ALL things. For example, I have no problem finishing books. Or an entire bag of Costco-sized Hershey’s kisses by myself. Or following through on commitments I’ve made to people (usually). No…what I DO have a problem finishing, however, is anything to do with tidiness or …
When I stopped reading mostly just from recommended reading lists and started reading whatever the heck I wanted, I was able to go a miraculously long time without hitting a bunch of duds in a row. Sure, I hit a few books I could have done without (The Signature of All Things, anyone?), but overall, …
I happened to be looking through some old blog posts the other day when I realized that I haven’t done a full update on what I’ve read lately since August of last year. Whoops. Sure, I covered some of the more recent titles in my post on the top 10 books I read last year, …
2016 was a huge reading year for me—in fact, it’s the biggest reading year I’ve had as an adult since I started faithfully tracking all my books (back in 2011). Ranking books is always a hard process because different books bring up different feelings and fulfill different needs, but I decided to pick the top …
