This year I read 120 of 100 books, beating my goal. I've gone higher than 100, but I always remember the year my goal was 125 and I only...

I wanted to kick-off Black History month by spotlighting some of my favorite young adult books by Black authors. The  Track  Series by Jason...

Yesterday was a completely lazy day, but this morning my kid and I officially set our Goodreads goals. In doing so, I remembered that they s...

What a year! I started with good intentions of blogging regularly (as you do) and then dropped off mid-summer (as I do). But that doesn'...

My year in blogging here was a bit hit or miss, so it only seems right that I do a big dump post of my year in reading, instead of my nicely...

I have to admit that I like to do Reading Challenges... just because. I'm the type of person who writes every little thing down on a To ...

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar (2020). This book came out right as the pandemic hit the US, so the title alone mad...

This looks like I picked more than 5 books, but two choices are the book and the sequel, and one is an amazing series. Since I think they sh...

Tracing the Desire Line by Melissa Matthewson (2019).  Very interesting, poetic memoir about self and marriage. I flagged so many beautiful,...

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore (2020). I read about the concept of this book and bought it immediately. I’m still obsessed with ...

I typically make the disclaimer that these are books I  read  in 2019, not necessarily books that were published in 2019. But for adult nonf...

I always enjoy looking back over the books I read in a year and grouping them into genre categories, and then ranking them. I use the star r...

I didn't do a full-on Reading Challenge this year with certain genres to check off, but I did challenge myself to read 115 books via Goo...

In 2017 I read 127 books, broken down into 34,396 pages. My Goodreads goal was 104, or 2 a week. I exceeded that by reading one book eve...