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August 2023 wound up being another 6-title month for me. Not terrible, but not great either. Considering we spent 4 of those days...
Reading, Thinking & Connecting
August 2023 wound up being another 6-title month for me. Not terrible, but not great either. Considering we spent 4 of those days...
8 titles in July 2023. An unprecedented THREE 5-star reads, and no stinkers. It was another busy month- I listened more than I read, as...
June was a relatively slow month for reading, but considering I crisscrossed across the globe, made my 9th international move,...
Many of you are already starting your summer school holidays or are getting ready for them. Last month, I made my way through 10 titles...
One would think that in a month where I spent over 40 hours on airplanes, I would have read a lot of books. I really didn't, and I blame...
March turned out to be a doozy of a month, in just about every fashion. We're still training a puppy, raising a non-binary teenaged...
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...