February started out rough. Our sweet dog lost her fight with Congestive Heart Failure and we had to say goodbye. I drowned some of my...

As 2022 wrapped, I took a look back at my books read and a look at my TBR and did an inventory of the books that I REALLY wanted to read....

Wrapping up my biggest reading year ever, I managed to read 103 books in 2022. I truly enjoyed the majority of them and I cannot stop...

I've now blown past my Goodreads Reading Challenge goal of 75 books, which was my previous high. At the end of November, I managed to...

My reading definitely tapered off to a pace more normal in October, as we moved into our new home in Manila, got settled, and began to...

I'll say this for travel, limbo, and life in a new city where you don't really have a routine or friends to take up your time...it leaves...

Greetings bookish friends! I'm making good use of my layover in Singapore to update my blog and publish August reviews. As always for...

I apologize to anybody that was looking for recommendations since my May reads. I completely failed in posting recommendations, TBR, and...

May was a solid reading month for me. I spent a fair amount of time in the car, which means I listened to more books than usual. I also...

April marked the first full month that my girls and myself spent entirely outside of COVID restrictions, Hong Kong's bizarre...

March Madness isn't just basketball. It was our lives, lived in real-time. I won't go into detail because this is a blog about books,...

February of 2022 marked the 2-year point for our family living in some degree of restriction in Hong Kong due to COVID. It also marked...

For the past few years, after overindulging during the holidays, I've opted in to the Dry January craze. Foregoing alcohol for the month...

In life, I tend to be an all or nothing kind of girl. It's not a great attribute but it is what it is. I was all in on this blog...and...

My intention to write a blog every time I finish a book has been completely abandoned to the reality that I can hardly pause the...

I'm much better at reading books (and even at reviewing them) than I am at sitting down to blog about what I've read and send out to the...

They do, when they come from me. Because three is a nice number. And it is also the number of book reviews I can delay writing before I...

In two days time, it will have been a full calendar year since I have been anywhere other than my own apartment in Hong Kong. Not that...

NetGalley makes me happy. I confess to signing up only to get free books. I resented having to take time out of reading to write what I...

"Do your best until you know better, then do better." -Maya Angelou Me & White Supremacy. Combat Racism, Change the World and Be a Good...