My July 2017 reading recap has to start with how this crazy month both ate into my reading practice and made me love reading again. At the end of June, I started
More(This post contains spoilers for The Fault in Our Stars… also, I wrote this as part of my application for MFA programs in spring 2017—and it worked!) Upon a first read, John Green’s
MoreFor much of the past few years, I usually only read one book at once. I rarely quit a book. I told myself it was about focus, that I could only fixate my
MoreLast year I decided to make 2016 new releases my guiding light in what I would order, read, and write about this year. To a large extent, I followed this quest. Many
MoreIt just took me a whole month to finish a book—Jonathan Franzen’s Great American Novel, Freedom—and man, what a great way to slide into fall. That and tea: lots and lots of tea.
MoreOne of the reasons why I love the fall so much is it makes me excited about cooking again. I never feel like eating much in the summer heat, so I usually
MoreLately, I’ve been morose, realizing that I’m going to finish this year having read approx. 60 books, the same as the last two years, give or take. This year I focused mainly
MoreAaaannnd…. Here we go! It’s fall publishing season 2016, baby, and I am drowning in pre-orders… more than 30 between now and the end of the year. I am not really big
MoreIn today’s post we look at a book review of [easyazon_link identifier=”0062398903″ locale=”US” tag=”brbybo-20″ popups=”n”]A Study in Charlotte[/easyazon_link], Brittany Cavallaro’s promising debut YA mystery and the first in a trilogy. Recently I
MoreIt is officially September and time to say goodbye to August. For me, August 2016 was a pretty rough reading month for me. I was in a slump for most of the
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