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• Reading Resolutions and Challenges for 2021

  

  This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about our reading goals and challenges for 2021.  In my last post, I wrote about my reading an... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2020: Reflections on My Year in Reading and Blogging

  

  I’m about a week late in wrapping up my year — and what a week it’s been! It hardly matters what or how I read in 2020 at this point, but 2020 was such an... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann

  The first time I heard about this book, I was struck by how much it sounded like my own family. Neumann grew up in Venezuela, but her father was born in... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My December Reading Wrap-Up

  

  Happy New Year! Despite pandemic stresses, the holiday season was lovely and we’re happy to see an end to 2021. We were sad to miss throwing our annual Latke... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Favorite Reads of 2020

  

  This week, we’re sharing our favorite books of 2020 for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl).  I found it hard this year to identify ten favorite... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Year in Reading Challenges

  

  At the beginning of 2020 I focused on four challenges: Read Harder, Reading Nonfiction, Reading Around the World, and reading books I already owned.  My goal... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Around the World in 2020

  

  Every year I try to read as many books as possible that are set in other countries. I keep track of each new country read as part of the five-year Reading Aroun... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

  I read this for my book club and really enjoyed it. This is the kind of book you put down and then you find yourself thinking about long afterwards. This... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

  I loved this book. I already thought Schwab was great, but this book combines so many things I love – history, travel, France – and it’s really... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2020: My Year in Audiobooks

  

  2020 was a good year for audiobooks, since mostly what I did was take long walks every day to get out of the house.  Audiobooks were also a great distraction... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Top Ten Books Released in 2020

  

  These lists seem to come out earlier every year, but I guess that way people can add them to their wish lists and give them as gifts. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• November Wrap-Up and Mini-Reviews

  I spent a lot of time this month participating in Nonfiction November, so I thought instead of the usual monthly wrap-up I’d post some mini-reviews instead. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: Books I’ve Added to My To-Be-Read List

  

  This week’s host for Nonfiction November is Katie @ Doing Dewey, and it’s about the nonfiction titles we’ve added to our TBR list this month. Below I’m... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What I’m Thankful For

  I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking about the things I’m thankful for. I’ll be honest– I’m struggling to feel good about the world these days, as much a... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: Reading About Race

  

  This week’s Nonfiction November prompt is hosted by Rennie @ What’s Nonfiction: Week 3: (November 16-20) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: Book Pairings

  

  This week’s Nonfiction November prompt comes from Julie @ Julz Reads: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

  I love reading about Australia, ever since I traveled there in 2013. I was struck by the similarities in the history of Australia and the United States, though ... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nonfiction November: My Year in Reading Nonfiction

  This year I’m returning to Nonfiction November, one of my favorite blogging events. This event is hosted by Leann @ ShelfAware, Katie @ Doing Dewey, Julie @ Jul... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My October Reading Wrap-Up

  October wasn’t a great blogging month for me, because there’s really only one thing that mattered this month — the election. I started volunteering with the... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: All Adults Here by Emma Straub

  I really got into this book about three generations of a family in small-town Connecticut, though I felt let down by the ending, for reasons I’ll try to... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE