Book Spotlight: The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

Genre: Fiction Stars: 2

Book Spotlight: Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran

Genre: Autobiography, non-fiction, memoir Stars: 5

My “Fun” May be Different than Your “Fun”

Data Dump. Enjoy.

ThriftBooks.com or Bust!

ThriftBooks.com - all you'll ever need to keep your library flowing.

Reading BINGO Game

I found a super fun reading-based bingo board on LA’s blog Waking Up on the Wrong Side of 50. Now, LA’s a speed reading demon from another galaxy, of which I and well jealous, and she plays Bingo every month. But my slow ass will be adding this to my 2021 reading plans because that's how…

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2021 Book List

I am a slow reader. Defining slow reader, if I get through a book a month, I’m doing pretty darn good. I read about as fast as you’d expect a 5th grader to read. I average probably 35-40 pages an hour if I’m really into it, maybe 15 pages before bed. I was not the…

BookSpotlight: Galatea by Madeline Miller

Genre: Fiction Stars: 5 WARNING: This novella contains (non-explicit) domestic violence

Book Spotlight: Circe by Madeline Miller

Genre: Fiction Stars: 5 WARNING: This novel contains (non-explicit) sexual violence

Going Paperless: Converting from Book to Kindle

It took two years for me to fully convert to paperless, but now that I'm here, I'll never go back!

Book Spotlight: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

Genre: Fiction Rating: 3 stars

How I Rate Book Spotlights

Everyone's a critic. But not everyone follows a set of rules to forming opinions. These are mine at least where books are concerned.

August 2019 Reads

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton This novel blends sci-fi time travel and astral projection with a murder mystery dinner party. I listened via audible, and it's well paced in order to keep a listener engaged without being too detail-oriented to lose whole plot points on my morning commute. More than…