2020 Books

I'm on track to finish 100 books in 2020. 🤩 I still have 2 more books to read, but I'm in the mood to look back on the year in books this weekend, so here we go: my favorite reads of the year by genre. Childrens / Young Adult FictionBecoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan …

2020 Books – First 60

2020 is half way over. Can you believe it? Because of COVID, I have been doing more reading than usual, and am 10 books ahead of my goal. Today I finished my 60th book of the year. I really enjoy doing these book round ups, even when they're super long and nobody else cares, so …

Book Recommendations from 2019

Here is a giant dump of all of the books I read in 2019 that I loved the most. Science Fiction The Humans by Matt Haig - The story is told from the point of view of an alien sent to Earth to make sure a recently discovered world-changing mathematical formula was squashed, rather than …

13 Books

Last year I only wrote one post about the books I had read. It was a pretty long post highlighting a few of my favorite reads from the first half of the year. I never did write about the second fifty of the year, but you can always check out my GoodReads situation to see …

Halfway There

On July 4th I read my 50th book of 2018! Being completely on summer vacation for nearly a month now has confirmed that I would be a phenomenal stay at home dog mom. I love sitting around all day! Since July 4th I have read TEN books (and watched a lot of Netflix). Now I'm …

I Don’t Buy Books

There are a lot of memes - especially in my bookish world - about people who just can’t stop buying books. There’s the one of the chalkboard flow chart that asks, “Should you buy a book today?” where all roads lead to, “Yes, buy a book.” I have friends who talk about their shelves full …

Hobbies

I am fascinated by how people spend their time. It’s a common enough question to ask someone, “What do you do for fun?” but I want to know what people do for not fun. I want to know what people do at 7pm on a Tuesday evening after day’s work. I suppose what I'm saying …

2017 Book Round Up

2017 was another great year for books! I met my goal of reading 100 books and have enjoyed looking back over those hundy the past couple of days. Some quick stats: Books: 100 Pages: 33,592 Average Pages Per Day: 92 Average Rating: 4 stars Repeat Authors: Erika Johansen, Gillian Flynn, JK Rowling, Jacqueline Woodson, Kierra …

What We Remember

Over the past few days I read a book called Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. It’s the story of a friendship that spans decades. The friends are two girls, then women, named Kate and Tully. Kate has a great family and modest goals. She wants to get married and have a family. She is suggestible …

2017 Goals

This morning I knocked over my mop bucket, spilling dirty water all over the living room. Then I realized that my stove isn't broken like I thought it was for the past week, but that the gas line just wasn't opened all the way. New year, same me. But also, new year, new goals! Well, …