Category: reading recap

  • Reflections on My “Failed” 2025 Reading Goals

    Reflections on My “Failed” 2025 Reading Goals

    It’s that time of year again–time to be brutally honest with myself about how I did on my 2025 reading goals and resolutions, and hopefully learn from them in 2026. You can read about my 2025 goals and WHY I chose them, according to January me, here. While writing this, I went back and read…

  • March 2023 Reading Recap

    March 2023 Reading Recap

    Q1 is OVER! How…I have no idea? But we’re here, we’re reading, we’re doing our best to avoid reading slumps, and we’re checking in on our progress with this month’s reading, and with our overall goals for the year. For a little rehash, my main “reading” related goals were to do 1 short story collection…

  • February 2023 Reading Recap

    February 2023 Reading Recap

    Remember how in my January recap I was like “I am free! I can read what I want again.” Whomp whomp whomp. Just kidding–I’m SUPER excited to be serving on an award committee this year, but February was my last real month of “free reading” til the late fall. So let’s dive in! First things…

  • Picture Book Round Up #2

    Picture Book Round Up #2

    Back again with another picture book round up! Today, we have a mix of books from the DC and Arlington “new books” shelf and a backlist title that I placed on hold for a reason I simply cannot remember anymore. A Library by Nikki Giovani, illustrated by Erin K Robinson I had to read this,…

  • January 2022 Reading Recap

    January 2022 Reading Recap

    January 2022 was a really interesting reading month for me

  • April 2021 Reading Recap

    April 2021 Reading Recap

    28 books read in April 2021–including one of my most anticipated books of 2021!

  • March 2021 Reading Recap

    March 2021 Reading Recap

    Here’s what I read in March 2021

  • January 2021 Reading Recap

    January 2021 Reading Recap

    I read 24 entire books in January, and I’m halfway through 2 more!

  • 2020: Reading in Review

    2020: Reading in Review

    Well, it’s finally over, so let’s take a look back at what I read in 2020.

  • December 2020 Reading Recap

    December 2020 Reading Recap

    Stay tuned for my full 2020 reading recap in the coming weeks!

  • November Reading Recap

    November Reading Recap

    Holy heck…the year is almost over! And I still have a bajillion books to read…and that’s not even thinking about all the February 2021 arcs I’ve been putting off. I did some serious reading in November though–including TWO trilogies I’d owned for…awhile. Here’s what I read this month: The Camelot Betrayal (ARC) Badass Habits (ARC)…

  • September 2020 Reading Recap

    September 2020 Reading Recap

    I feel like I sprinted through the whole thing, but I’m also very suprised it’s over?