I’m still chugging away at pleasure reading. I make myself read for 20 minutes a night, which doesn’t sound especially pleasurable but I’m always happy I did it. When my timer goes off, if I want to keep going, I…
What I read in the Spring/Summer of 2025
I’ve finally managed to wrangle myself back into a reading habit. How? By setting a cheeky-20 minute timer every day and making myself read. I can do anything for 20 minutes, and if the alarm goes off and I feel…
Friday 5: The crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change
Happy Friday! Today is also National Cheese Fondue Day (yes, please!) and National Submarine Day (no thank you!) and I’m pretty pooped so let’s head to the Friday 5. This week’s theme is: the crickets spread the rumor of sadness…
What I read in February 2025
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers – Samuel Burr: After the death of his adoptive mother, young man abandoned on the doorstep of an eclectic commune of puzzle makers (and solvers) embarks on his own puzzle-fueled journey to find his parentage. The…
Wordless Wednesday 2024: Week 41
Friday 5: A Wrinkle in Time
Happy Friday, which is also National Cucumber Day (I hope to have a bumper crop later this summer), National Bourbon Day (I can only tolerate it if it’s mixed with other thing), and Flag Day. I love Americana, I love…
Read in 2023: Two Self Help Books
I do love a good self-help book. SARK’s Succulent Wild Woman came out the year I turned 25 and although I outgrew SARK (lady, I need a job and can’t spend my days in a nap hut) never stopped reading…
Read in 2023: Two Magical Realism books
I try to read all genres of books but I do have my preferences. I enjoy nonfiction, summery beach books, some fantasy, some romance, scant YA. Not deep fantasy, not murder/torture, not dystopian. But a genre that’s caught my eye…
A long weekend with a longer one to come
This is what a three-day weekend looks like when you’re a middle-aged adult: This will be a short yet hectic workweek because I have a half-day tomorrow (aforementioned mammogram with ultrasound if necessary and I swear to Pete if I…
The British Royal Family gossip Superbowl is almost upon us!
When I was young, my grandmother used to mail us her weekly copies of the Star and Enquirer. I didn’t bother watching The Crown because I read Kitty Kelley’s book and it could get no better than that. My homeschool…
Show Us Your Books: September 2021
Do you remember?The second Tuesday of September?Don’t even need to be a member!To show us your books todayyyyyyyyy! BAAAAAADEEEEYAAAA! The plotlines we dismember!BAAAAAADEEEEYAAAA! Reading always sparks an ember!BAAAAAADEEEEEYAAA! We’re blogging about books todaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! It was only a three-book month for…
Show us your books: August 2021
Welcome to the monthly book post, where I share what I read while trying to be kind to myself and not beat myself up for reading more. For the last few weeks, my life has resembled a stereotypical country music…
