Booktober Reads and Reviews : Add a few to your holiday list!
Despite my hours spent in the car, having guests for half of the month decreased my audiobook time. I managed to make it through ten...
Reading, Thinking & Connecting
Despite my hours spent in the car, having guests for half of the month decreased my audiobook time. I managed to make it through ten...
September 2023 marked my first month as an American living in America in nearly 20 years. Our lives are not only US-based, but all four...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...