I finished August with 22 ARCs left to be read. September was just a hectic and out of control month. I’m traveling a bit in October, so I spent a lot of this month running around trying to handle a lot of stuff. Between medical appointments, hospital visits, […]
This week’s topic is a fun one—books that defied my expectations, and it was submitted by Sia @ Every Book a Doorway. The prompt further clarifies: we can focus on books we thought we wouldn’t like that we loved, books we thought we’d love but didn’t books that […]
This week’s prompt is water, which is a relatively broad topic. We’re given some suggestions, like book covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc), but I kind of wanted to come up with my own […]
I finished May with 17 ARCs left to be read. I was originally planning to make some serious progress on my ARCs in June, but things got super busy in June. I ended up going to two fairs with friends, went to my nephew’s high school graduation, and […]
Wow, we’re really getting into tough prompts early this year, huh? I don’t tend to read a lot of books that are primarily set outdoors, but after some intense thought, I managed to come up with at least a few. Here goes nothing! That’s all I can come […]
So far, I’ve already done posts about my favorite nonfiction books of 2022, my monthly favorites, and some about audiobooks that I really enjoyed. So this time, I want to talk about my favorite debuts of 2022: What are some 2022 debuts that you loved?
I’m in a reflective mood, even though there’s still close to two weeks left in the year. At the start of the year, I made a promise to myself that I’d read some more nonfiction books, and I actually stuck to that one. Each month, I chose at […]
I tend to read a lot of audiobooks, but I struggle to write reviews for them, because I process them differently than when I actually read the words. I don’t take the same kind of notes when I read audiobooks, so when I write my reviews, I typically […]
This week’s topic, submitted by Lisa @ Hopewell, turned out to be a bit more comprehensive than I thought it would be at first. Geographical terms (for example: mountain, island, latitude/longitude, ash, bay, beach, border, canyon, cape, city, cliff, coast, country, desert, epicenter, hamlet, highway, jungle, ocean, park, […]
You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion Author: Dr. Meera Shah Genre: Social Science Publication Date: September 1, 2020 Publisher: Chicago Review Press For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and […]
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