HOW is it already October? How am I drowning in backlist titles and still somehow thinking about upcoming releases? Because I’m crazy…and I love reading…and I cannot wait to read these seven books in particular, even if it probaby won’t be this month. White House Clubhouse: White House on Fire by Sean O’Brien Not going…

September is an insane publishing month every year, and this one is no different! Here are my most anticipated titles! Intermezzo by Sally Rooney I’m seated, I’m waiting, and I’m ready to read. Sally Rooney’s three previous books all emotionally wrecked me, and I know this one isn’t billed as romantic trauma, but I’ve already…

This isn’t healthy. I understand it’s almost September, which is almost 2025…but it’s also very much NOT. And there are so many 2024 titles I still want to read and look forward to..let alone all the backlist on my brain. So tell me WHY am I thinking nonstop about some of these 2025 titles…. The…

I love trolling the book catalogs, looking for an under-the-radar new release or debut that will blow me away, but I always gasp and go “ooh” when I see a new book promised from a big name author, especially one I’ve enjoyed before. There are so so many authors I routinely search on Edelweiss hoping…

The most impressive part of this whole thing is me writing and posting it on the 1st day of August! I’m coming off a ton of summer activities and headed into a weekend of travel, so having a little rest day (or half a rest day) on the 1st of the month is a real…

I have been humbled…which is probably evident since I am recapping my JUNE reading halfway through July. Between the end of the school year, Caldecott, two conferences and some big changes with July…my “for me” reading kind of face-planted in June. I lost track of what I had just read multiple times, so while I…

AKA: The month that happened so fast it almost killed me? This month FLEW by and not in the good way, right? I did a lot of reading, not as much reading as I needed to, and somehow still read 60+ books (and that doesn’t include books I read for the Caldecott). Some successes this…

Well, I’m really glad I didn’t put blogging on my goals list for the year because I would be WOEFULLY behind on that goal. But here I am, reflecting on my month of reading for the FOURTH time this year. First ,let’s checkin on my “book” goals for the year now that we’re in Q2!…

The first quarter of the year is OVER! And I am OVER IT, lol. Honestly, the past three months have flown by, and I feel like I am kind of wildly off-track…but I also know I’m not THAT off-track.  Checking in on my GOALS for the year: I whoopsied on  the “no book buying” rule…

Somehow, the month passed, and some books were read and now that my award committee work for 2024 is really kicking off..this is probably my last month of low numbers. I’m not disappointed in myself for my low-reading levels this month, because I felt like this month beat me up in general, but I KNOW…