Well, Happy New Year! With all the festivities and the planning and posting of the 2020 Challenges I nearly forgot that today was Wednesday! That means it is time for WWW Wednesday. Thanks go to Sam @ Taking on a World of Words for hosting this meme again - it's an absolute miracle for keeping... Continue Reading →
2020 Reading Goals and Challenges
I have been spending the past week thinking about my reading habits, what I want to change, and how I want to grow as a reading and reviewer. I started by looking at my successes and failures of the past year and selected challenges that would (1) not make me insane and (2) would help... Continue Reading →
Challenge Update: The Goodreads Challenge and My Favorites of 2019
This year I vowed to log every single book I read on Goodreads. I know that this sounds silly - what is the alternative? Well, what I did pre-2019 was to only log the books I was proud to read or ones that I reviewed. Which is just silly because every single book is a... Continue Reading →
2019 Challenge Updates: My Struggles
After this, I only have one more challenge to address; my Goodreads challenge. But it would be remiss of me to not take the time to talk about the straight up messes I have made of my reading and reviewing this year. This is where I lay down the shameful double whammy of bad habits... Continue Reading →
2019 Reading Challenge Update: Audiobooks
2018 might have been the year I discovered the power of audiobooks but 2019 is definitely the year that I made audiobooks work for me. And, I owe it all to Hot Listensย and Caffeinated Reviewer's audiobook challenge! In this challenge, you are encouraged to listen to audiobooks and they make being successful so easy. Here... Continue Reading →
2019 Reading Challenges: Beat the Backlist
This is the second year that I haveย pledged to participate in Novel Knight's Beat the Backlist Challenge and this is the second year that I have fallen short of the goal line. This year I read the books (same as 2018), I even kept track of them (one better than 2018!) but I still managed... Continue Reading →
My 2019 Challenge Update: Serious Series Challenge
I took up six reading Challenges in 2019 as well as the Goodreads challenge. Of these seven, five were successes. The two failures were the Totally Harry Potter Re-Read through and the Learn Something New Challenge. Both these challenges I will discuss later. But first, the successes! The Series Books I Finished in 2019 For... Continue Reading →
WWW Wednesday: December 18, 2019
If last week seemed to drag by, this week is passing at lightening speed. Christmas is next week! I have almost everything ready to celebrate the holidays (this is a total lie but just go with me please). No matter how much I want to slow the season down, it is already Wednesday and that... Continue Reading →
The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons
Am I finishing off my reading goals for 2019? Nope. This weekend I caught a nasty cold and used the down time to read but, as usual, I read totally without purpose. I really need to work on this for 2020! Still, my wandering brought me to a book on my own massive physical TBR... Continue Reading →
WWW Wednesday: December 11, 2019
This has already been a long week! Not a bad week, just one of those where you do so much that the days seem unnaturally long. But now it is Wednesday! That means it is time for WWW Wednesday. This is my "clean slate" day where I gather up all the books that have wandered... Continue Reading →
