Last Friday marked the end of the school year around these parts–the yellow buses shuttled kids home for the last time, my Instagram feed filled up with posts comparing 1st day/last day school shots from proud parents, and I reached my self-imposed deadline for my own “academic year.” If you’re just tuning in, at the …
As I’ve mentioned before, I try to always be in the middle of several books at once so that I’ve got a pick to fit every mood that might come up. My “ideal four” genres to always have going on? An adult fiction, a young adult fiction, a nonfiction (often a self-help or religious title), …
I decided school years must go a lot faster when you’re not actually, you know, teaching during one because I kind of can’t believe I’m already about to start the last quarter of this academic year. (If you’re just tuning in, at the beginning of this “school year,” I decided to set myself some assigned …
Since making myself a fun little “Assigned Reading” list back in September for the school year, I have noticed a distinct pattern—without fail, I have finished my “personal development” (usually self-help or religious nonfiction book) first, read the YA pick within a few days of starting it, and then I’ve left the so-called “Hard Hitter” …
When my husband and I lived in our first apartment, there used to be a fabulous local bookstore just down the street from us that we would frequently haunt on the weekends whenever we needed something to do. They sold a huge variety of used and new books, movies, and music, they always had some …
I semi-recently read a post by a book blogger who said she read something like 150 titles last year, and that she had only “counted” all the books that she made it to at least page fifty on. I was floored… People actually COUNTED books they hadn’t read all of? The horror! The horror! But …
About a year and some-odd months ago, I wrote a post about our (ahem, mostly my) spending habits when it came to certain discretionary spending categories (such as clothing, books, movies, etc.). In it, I shared that for several years running, I had usually spend upwards of $350-400 every year on purchasing more books (not …
At one point, I tried to convince myself that I was a pretty open-minded person when it came to the kinds of books I was willing to read. After all, I read a large variety of genres (memoir, historical fiction, informational, young adult, fantasy (ish), dystopian, self-help, etc. etc.!), as well as a variety of …
