Hello, 2019! Since I love making lists and setting goals, the new year is a fun time in that regard. I’m particularly keen to set some goals for this year because I actually did a pretty good job on the goals I set for 2018 — knocking them off makes me feel more confident I [...]
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Today, Sophisticated Dorkiness turns 10 years old. Truthfully, I spent most of this week thinking I’d only been blogging for nine years. I discovered it’s actually been a decade when I went to look at last year’s blogiversary post and realized my mistake. Ten years! That’s amazing. I started this blog in 2008 just a [...]
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I just got back from a quick warm weather vacation near the beach! A college friend and I went to an all-inclusive resort just south of Cancun for a long weekend, where we ate, drank, swam, and read. I actually finished four books on the trip [...]
Last year, I was not in a position to set any goals… my life was in shambles, I was grieving, and I was fighting this overwhelming feeling that goals and plans are pointless because the world can just kick you in the face at any moment. This year, things are different. I am still working [...]
I hope you’ll forgive a bit of navel-gazing for today’s post. Over Memorial Day weekend, I got to thinking about what to do with the blog over the summer. A couple of bloggers I read regularly are embarking on projects to post on every one of the 99 days of summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day). I [...]
Briefly | Life got the better of me this week, so I decided to take an impromptu spring break from blogging. It was kind of awesome. I’m not sure that I’m entirely recovered from the last few stressful weeks, but today is my seventh blogiversary and I couldn’t let that go by without a little celebration. [...]
Hey everyone! Please pardon the mess around here. I’m in the process of upgrading the design for the blog, so things are going to look a little wonky for awhile. The upgrade should make the site look a lot better on mobile devices (responsive design!), and give me a chance to do some other cleaning [...]
Earlier this year, a friend and fellow book lover Rebecca Schinsky wrote a piece for Book Riot about her “radical reading (unplan).” In it, she argued that the best way to decide what to read is to throw away all of the book lists: Delete the anxiety-inducing, peer pressure-based apps. Break up with the social [...]
I hope you’ll indulge me a little self-promotion today. Tonight I am one of five featured bloggers on a podcast all about the love of books. Here’s a quick description: BookLove, a special episode of A Kind Voice on Books, will bring recommendations for books you could fall for. During the show, five book blogger/reviewers [...]
I’m generally pathetic at following through with goals and resolutions that I set on January 1. Like most people, I get ambitious at the end of the year and set myself up with a huge list of things to do to make life better. But January is traditionally a pretty busy month where I struggle [...]
