I haven't updated since last book review? And I have how many crummy drafts? Five? Do I even do the April Extras now that we're 11 days into May? Eh, it'll all shake out. It's just a blog, not a job. Three books read this month! Goodreads is still asking me to set a goal. Not this year. Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers #4) by Penny Reid- Okay, listen. I'm far past caring about any individual brother in this series. I am instead completely fascinated by the little town of Green Valley, ...
Show Us Your Books – April 2022
Guess who's back?Back again?Kim is back...tell a friend! I did a lot of reading in prep for my CAE exam in December and it put me off from pleasure reading for a while. Which is okay! I knew the desire to read would return eventually and in March it quietly knocked on the door and I let it back in. While I didn't even set a Goodreads goal for 2022 I'm just going to play this by ear. Don't force yourself to do things you're not into and call it pleasure, okay? Goodreads, bless its heart, ...
Show us your books, November 2021
Book roundup time! Another 2-book month but by the next books roundup, my exam will be behind me! Hooray! And then it'll be silly holiday books for the rest of the year. I sure miss pleasure reading. The Night the Lights Went Out - Drew MagaryDrew Magary is a writer for Defector and freelances in other places. You might know him from the yearly Haters Guide to the Williams-Sonoma's Catalog humor column that comes out every holiday season. It was after the 2018 Deadspin Awards show in ...
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 me. I'm studying between 9 and 12 hours a week for the CAE exam (obviously one of the worst ideas I've ever had), so pleasure reading has taken a backseat until December. ...
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 song without the pretty wife who cooks and cleans my house but I still managed to get the reading done. Yay me! Without further ado, because honestly I'm still a weepy mess about Ollie and the more I type the worse this post will be and I do like people to come back to my ...
Show us your books July 2021
Whoa-ho! Look at me with my fat FIVE books this month. I even had to redo the layout of my SUYB title image! My secret? I go outside and leave my phone inside. Or I read inside and leave my phone in another room. The phone has been my enemy lately. I'll read a few pages and wonder what the weather is going to be later and grab the phone to check my weather app. I'll read a few pages and be reminded of a person and grab the phone to check their socials. This has happened before and distancing ...
Show us your books June 2021
A light reading month, not for lack of desire, but because the bulk of my pleasure reading time is going toward the Association Law book which I mentioned last month. More on that below. Here are the three books I read since we met last: Small Gods (Discworld 13) -- Terry PratchettI've been reading the Discworld series for the first time, but only a few books a year. My reasoning is that if if I hard-core binged them all, I'd become tired of the series long before I ran out of books to read. ...
Show Us Your Books May 2020
Book post day! One of my favorite bloggy days of the month. It's another four-book month and that is fine. You'll see a reason why my reading is lower than usual in a few. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power -- Deirdre Mask This is exactly the kind of nonfiction book that I love. It's well-researched, relatable, and very easy to read. And you're thinking, "A book about street addresses? Okaaaaaaaaay, nerd." But listen! I had no idea ...
Show Us Your Books April 2020
Book time! I'm continuing to be gentle with myself w/r/t reading goals and such, but this is another four book update and I am pleased. Because if I *did* have a reading goal for 2020 it would be 50 books, and an average of four books a month would put me almost right at that goal. If I cared about reading goals, that is. I read two of these books within three days. You'll notice that I very rarely give a book fewer than 3 stars - it's because of this book linkup! My big reading news ...
Show Us Your Books March 2021
Last year I subtitled this post "Books in the time of Coronavirus Part1" and look at us one year later. Still a mess but closer to herd immunity due to vaccines and general human carelessness! Writers & Lovers - Lily KingCasey Peabody is drowning. Drowning in grief from her mother's death and issues with her father. Drowning in the wreckage of a failed relationship. And drowning in student debt, which is why she's living in a moldy room while working two crummy jobs while trying to ...
Show Us Your Books February 2021
You guys - I went to some stores this weekend! I was in Michael's for about 4 minutes before the crowds (checkout line snaking throughout the store, people literally pushing by) drove me away. Fair, it's the weekend before Valentine's Day and the little kids need to make some Valentines to sneeze on and give to their teachers. We retreated to Staples and I picked up the tape I was going to buy in Michael's. We also spent about 15 minutes in Barnes and Noble. I double-masked for the first ...
Show Us Your Books January 2021
It feels so nice to write 2021. Even if things are ... more of the same. I'm starting to say, "hey self, stop doomscrolling on your phone at nights and maybe read some of these books? Hm?" I read four books since I last recapped. Two were part of my 2020 total. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays - R. Eric Thomas. Thomas wrote a fantastic and hilarious collection of essays about being an outsider. Working-class Black sent to an affluent mostly-white school and ...
