Tag: book-reviews
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July 2026 Reading Recap
July—what a month! The first start of the second half of the year, my last full month in D.C., and a month that despite me protecting from Prof Devo trips and classes filled up VERY quickly. I traveled for almost three weeks in July, and had two days where I got in from one trip,…
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June 2026 Reading Recap
It says something about how life, and reading, is going when my recap of what I’m reading is like a month late, doesn’t it? June…happened. These summer months have been a DEAD SPRINT and June was crazy—the end of the school year, a huge national conference I did the daily newspaper for, and preparing for…
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May 2026 Reading Recap
Already have way through June, and I’m only just making the time to write my May reading recap. Doesn’t bode well, does it? In May 2026, I read 26 books, which was pretty good and nearly my goal for the month, and I DNF’d one that I was really looking forward to, but simply coudn’t…
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April 2026 Reading Recap
We are 33% of the way through the year, and am I 33% of the way through my reading goals? I am not, but I’m a lot happier with how much reading I was doing this month, and I’m almost done with a long book I was looking forward to reading. Let’s recap my reading…
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March 2026 Reading Recap
Have I been good about writing on this blog? I have not. Is it because I’ve been so busy reading? Only slightly… March 2026 is over, we are a quarter of the way through 2026, and according to Goodreads, I am approximately 25% of the way through my goal of reading 250 books this year.…
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The “Big Ole Books” Mini Challenge
I love a challenge–a little goal that gives me structure and guidelines within a hobby, like reading, that can seem endless and boundless. At the end of 2025, I finally read Fourth Wing, flying through it pretty quickly. As I looked at my Storygraph statistics for the end of the year, I also noted that…
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Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief
I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…
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