Metadiscourse

As I mentioned last Sunday, I am taking all of next week off from work. Well, mostly off work. I don’t have to go into the office but, depending on how much work I get done today, I may have to do some writing and editing from home. That said, a few hours of work from [...]

Trying to narrow down my favorite nonfiction of 2013 was a daunting task. I read a lot of wonderful books this year that I’ve gushed about in various places on- and offline. To keep this post from getting totally insane, I kept my thoughts on each title brief but included links to my longer reviews. [...]

I can’t believe it is the end of the year already! Where on earth did 2013 go? As I mentioned on Sunday, I’m posting my end of the year favorites lists this week ahead of the Christmas holiday. If I happen to read any life-changing books before the end of the year, the plan is [...]

I’m a little late with this last post for Nonfiction November, a month-long celebration of nonfiction I co-hosted with Leslie of Regular Rumination! Throughout the month, we read and wrote about nonfiction, encouraging other readers to join us through a series of post topics. Everyone should give a big round of applause to Leslie, since most of this month [...]

Happy Wednesday Before Thanksgiving! Can this be a holiday too? I decided not to travel for Thanksgiving, which means I’ll have plenty of time to participate in Jenn and Jennifer’s Thankfully Reading Weekend. It’s already been a long week, so I can’t wait for a quiet weekend of reading and eating (aside from when I [...]

Welcome to the final week of Nonfiction November, a month-long celebration of nonfiction I’m co-hosting with Leslie of Regular Rumination! Throughout the month, we’ve been reading and writing about nonfiction, and encouraging other readers to join us through a series of post topics. I’m feeling a little bummed this is the last week of the month. It’s been incredibly [...]

First of all, apologies to everyone who reads this blog who isn’t a book blogger. I feel like this week has been pretty blogger-centric, which isn’t my usual posting plan. But since Nonfiction November officially kicks off on Monday, I can almost guarantee I’ll be back to talking about the thing everyone cares about, books, soon. [...]

You may remember earlier this month when I posted about a book blogger survey that Shannon (River City Reading), Jennifer (Literate Housewife) and I put together. The results have been in for a couple of weeks, but it’s taken us awhile to dig into them. Yesterday, Shannon  put up our first post on the results, looking [...]

One of the best things about popping on to Twitter during the day is that some really interesting, inspiring conversations can develop. A few weeks ago, several bloggers got to talk about why we blog and what some of the pressures that start to develop when you’ve been blogging for a long time. Someone suggested [...]