Tag: book blog
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My 10 2026 Reading Goals
It’s timeeeeeeeeee. Time to make my 2026 reading goals, having reflected on the success and failures of my 2025 goals, having gotten any committee assignments, and having looked around my bookshelves too many times. This year, I made 10 reading goals. Some of them are big, overarching year-long goals. Some are one book goals. And…
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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…
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My 2025 Reading Goals
The fact that I’m publishing this in late February probably doesn’t bode well…does it? January 2025 saw the end of my Caldecott reading year, and as I am not yet committed to another reading thing for 2025, I decided to treat myself to some generalized book goals and resolutions. These were inspired by my goal…
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FFL Reading Challenge: A Classic Written by a Woman
One of the prompts on the FFL reading challenge this year is a classic written by a woman. As an English major, I could list a hundred off the top of my head, which would include just about every book ever written by a Bronte or an Austen or an Alcott
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No Good Deed
It’s summer camp for social justice warriors and activists…but then it becomes more Lord of the Flies than Kumbaya.
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PopSugar Reading Challenge Check-In
Like many other people, I’m doing the PopSugar reading challenge this year to try and be more targeted in my TBR pile
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2017 Reading by the Numbers
I’m always interested in looking at the breakdown of my reading, especially fiction versus nonfiction, male vs female authors, etc. Here is my 2017 reading broken down by the numbers.
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