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• Nonfiction November: Books I Added to My TBR

  

  Nonfiction November always closes with a look at what we’ve added to our TBR lists this month. I always get a lot of great recommendations from these... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick

  

  Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate Magazine and a nationally-recognized commentator on the law and the Supreme Court. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November Book Pairings: Fiction and Nonfiction About Activism and...

  

  This week’s Nonfiction November topic is book pairings, which can be nonfiction books on a particular topic paired with fiction, or with other types of media.... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Twelve Series I Want to Keep Reading

  

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about series we’d like to start, catch up on, or finish. In this post I’m writing about... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: My Year in Nonfiction

  

  I’m participating in Nonfiction November, one of my favorite annual blogging events. The first week’s topic is hosted by Doing Dewey, and I’m already a little... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My October Reading Wrap-Up

  

  Better late than never, here’s my reading wrap-up for October. It was a busy month, as I traveled to Phoenix last weekend to visit my family, plus two of my... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Old and New Horror

  

  At work recently we had a discussion about where someone might jump into Stephen King’s work if they hadn’t read him before. This led to a conversation about... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

  

  I was afraid this book might be a little “sappy” for me. I like emotional reads but rarely read the kind of books described as “heartwarming”, and this book... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews

  

  I gave up reading historical romances for a little while because they started feeling dated and repetitive. I understand that it’s hard to write about... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My September Reading Wrap-Up

  

  September was a challenging month, between getting COVID on vacation, getting back to work, family health issues, and just generally easing into fall. I love... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

  

  This is a humorous and emotional saga of a Vietnamese family in America. Though not a perfect book for me, I expect this book will resonate quite a bit with... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum: a Review and My Own Efforts to Reduce...

  

  Plastic may not be the worst issue impacting the environment, but it does feel like one that an individual can more easily do something about. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My 20 (Well, 15) Books of Summer

  

  Every year I enjoy participating in 746 Books‘ 20 Books of Summer Challenge. I read all year round, of course, but something about summer reading is special,... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Challenges: What I Still Need to Read in 2022

  

  Today I’m doing a look at my 2022 reading challenges, while there are still about four months in the year, so I can get readers’ suggestions about what books I... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Haven by Emma Donoghue

  

  Many readers of Donoghue’s other works will probably be disappointed by this one. She’s a beautiful writer and a powerful storyteller, and I appreciate how... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ten Favorite Books Published Over Ten Years Ago

  

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about books I love that were written over 10 years ago. I decided to narrow my list to the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

  

  I loved this novel about a small community in Monterey, California. I think I expected something more industrial from the title – Cannery Row refers to... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

  

  Brideshead Revisited was written during World War II by Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh. Brideshead reflects many aspects of his life, from experiences at Oxford,... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My July Reading Wrap-Up

  

  In July, life felt a little bit more normal — I was able to take more time for myself and even went back to working regular hours. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ten Books from Past TBR Lists I Haven’t Read Yet

  

  Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is ten books from seasonal TBR lists you haven’t gotten to yet. It was interesting to go back... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE