Monthly Review

With all the excitement of Nonfiction November I forgot to put up a reading list from October! So, this month’s review will actually be two months, looking at the books I read in both October and November. I’m also desperately behind in writing reviews, so much so that I may just give up on the whole [...]

September was a weird reading month! I was out of town for the entire first week at a conference, and then just couldn’t seem to settle my brain to read much of anything – going into last weekend, I’d only finished three books! But then something magically clicked and I finished four books in two [...]

I spent part of this weekend sitting on our patio, underneath a blanket but bathed in sunlight, feeling really grateful that fall is almost here. I love the summer, so much, but there’s something restorative about a change in season that feel particularly welcome right now. August was a lot of things for me, including [...]

Thanks to vacation at the beginning of the month, and an impulse towards introversion at the end of the month, I read a ton of books in July — 13 in total! And I have to say, aside from a couple that were just average/good, everything I read this month was very satisfying. Here’s the list: The [...]

I ended up taking last week off from blogging while I was on vacation, so I’m pretty belated in getting up a June reading wrap up. But I like being able to look back on these as a quick record of my reading, so I suppose better late than never. Here’s what I finished in [...]

Can you believe 2018 is almost half over? I’ve had a busy spring at work because I’ve been covering for a coworker’s maternity leave, which has made the last few months a bit of a blur. Between work, my freelance writing, and spending with with family and friends, it’s feels like just a blink. It’s [...]

April was a weird month of reading! Up until the Readathon last weekend, my reading was really slow. It felt like I was right on the edge of a major reading slump, which would be a bummer because I have so many great books to read. I started a lot of books that I never [...]

Thanks to four days in Mexico with no plans but to read, swim, and relax, I managed to finish a whopping 11 books in March! And on the whole, I found them pretty satisfying, and am happy that I also managed to write reviews of the ones I had strong feelings about. Here’s what I [...]

After complaining that January felt like it lasted forever, February absolutely flew by. I mean, I know that’s because there are fewer days to start with, but it felt like everything in work and in life started to pick up speed this month. My reading didn’t suffer too much despite the quicker pace, but I [...]