Reading Update (2/5/20)

Reading Update (2/5/20)

I had my first DNF (did not finish) book of 2020 – the memoir The Yellow House. The premise seemed interesting – it’s the author’s story of living in New Orleans East, and the deep history of the home her mother bought in 1961 and raised her...
Reading Update (1/29/20)

Reading Update (1/29/20)

We had our work book club discussion of Wild last week. It was jammed in between meetings for me, so I didn’t come prepared with questions (oops), but we did discuss it! People generally liked the book, and getting together to chat. We’re drawing our next...
Reading Update (1/17/20)

Reading Update (1/17/20)

Lots of good reads in this post! And the first and last one were recommendations from Stephany’s Best of 2019 list. Red, White & Royal Blue is a romantic comedy about the first son, Alex, and a British prince, Henry, falling in love, then keeping their...
Reading Update (01/07/20)

Reading Update (01/07/20)

I was thinking in 2020 I’d try to write my reading update posts on the same day of the week, or when I read a certain amount of books, but I don’t think that’ll work for me – sometimes I don’t have anything to post that week, sometimes I...
2019 Reads

2019 Reads

What a great reading year I had! I read so many good books (it was hard to pick one or two books for my categories below), and got much better at quitting (DNF’ing) books I could tell I wasn’t going to enjoy. I’m so glad I started this hobby back up....
Reading Update (12/30/19)

Reading Update (12/30/19)

Wow, I loved The Most Fun We Ever Had, which cracks me up, because I thought the writing on the first few pages was so pretentious that I wasn’t going to be able to continue! It either became less pretentious… or I got used to it. Ha. The Most Fun We Ever...